The 19 April date looks pretty firm for bmi to leave Star Alliance. Lufthansa has added a web page today With effect from 19 April 2012, Miles & More’s cooperation with bmi will end by mutual agreement. This is the result of the sale of bmi to IAG and the consequent withdrawal of bmi from…
Virgin considering UK domestic flights – competing with their own trains?
The Daily Telegraph published a news story yesterday suggesting, in the aftermath of BA buying up bmi, that the slots BA are being forced to sell should be kept as a bundle. Virgin seems to have the idea that it could then operate UK domestic flights. The news story reports, for the first time I…
UK Union warns of significant immigration delays over the Summer
The Daily Telegraph ran this news story today, based on comments by the Union for the Immigration officers. Key points seems to be: 3-4 hour waits for non-EU passengers possible Service operates fixed rotaring regardless of passenger flows More checks and staff cuts making it worse Just after games likely to be worst as special…
UPDATE: bmi sale to BA – 14 days left for Star Alliance Redemptions
Everything seems to be moving pretty fast with the merger of bmi in to BA. So fast that some of the information was released by other Star Alliance airlines before bmi told us. A minute ago bmi posted some Q&A’s on their Facebook page and it’s pretty shocking stuff: ** bmi plans to withdraw from…
UK Government makes visiting even less attractive – 8% increase in passenger duty from today
The BBC reports that the UK Governments increase in Air Passenger Duty comes in today. For economy short-haul flights, the tax has increased from £12 to £13. For long-haul flights between 2,000 and 4,000 miles, it has gone up from £60 to £65. Flights between 4,000 and 6,000 miles has risen from £75 to £81.…
Priority Pass 20% discount until 4 April
Priority Pass is offering a 20% discount on its normal rates until 4 April – their website shows the discount Standard Level Joining fee £55 and then £15 per visit Standard Plus Joining fee (including 10 visits) £127 and then £15 per visit Prestige Joining fee (including unlimited visits) £207 Summary If you buy day…
bmi announces first details of BA sale and Diamond Club
bmi just posted on Facebook: We’d like to advise you that the EU Competition Authority has today approved the sale of bmi to IAG. We are very aware that Diamond Club members want to know what will happen to their accounts when bmi is acquired by British Airways. The deal between bmi and British Airways…
New King’s Cross Station Atrium, London
Last week the long awaited new entrance to King’s Cross stationed opened to the public. Probably most famous as the starting location for Harry Potter’s visits to Hogwarts, it has undergone a major makeover. This is the station where services go up the East Coast mainline, serving Peterborough, Leeds, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Suburban services…
New bmi offers for this week – Business to Nice, Economy to Cairo
NICE FLIGHTS The Nice offer is a few pounds more than the last time they did this offer. Books in to P and earns 150% EQM’s with United (see below). Good availability. CAIRO FLIGHTS The Cairo flights book in to E class and earn 100%…
airberlin topbonus Service Card
A unique offering in terms of OneWorld, the fee (EUR 119) based service card gets you some savings if you don’t have status. Noteable amongst these is free normal seal selection – usually the fee for this starts at EUR10. This dummy reservation shows the charges for a EU and USA flight: …
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