Garuda Indonesia to sign on as Skyteam member
12/04/12 | Comment

The Garuda experience Bali-Jakarta .... don't bother. Garuda will not check luggage through from domestic to international at Jakarta, and they'll hit you with 'airport service charge' in CASH (rupiah or US$) at the CHECKIN. SO save your money...

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Air France B777-200 Affaires (business class)
06/02/12 | Comment

Accurate review, touching on the issues without making a fuss. My addtionals - - finding where to plug in the dusty headsets requires assistance (because you're sitting on the socket and will never see it once you're seated. AF need to up their...

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CAA publishes airline fee comparison table
02/02/12 | Comment

Too fast, phil .... Theis is a major breakthrough, and shows a major turnaround in attitude by the spanish-owned CAA. The knowledge that a rip-off or clandestine overcharge will be revealed withing 3 months should be enough to scare a lot of bad...

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BA to add European flights from Heathrow
10/11/11 | Comment

Here we go again - BA London Airways digging in to its LHR stronghold while its dynamic competition demonstrates the benefits of multi-centre national service provision with multiple new routes from BER. Us non-Londoners clearly have...

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BA boosts Heathrow-Glasgow route
21/10/11 | Comment

Would it be reasonable to infer a link between BAA's decision to retain GLA at the expense of EDI, thus making business-sense for BAA to favour GLA at LHR?

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Ryanair to cut London-Glasgow route
14/07/11 | Comment

The train fights back, I suspect. Stansted has no real justification in calling itself 'London'. It's Essex International :-) Likewise GLA is really Paisley International. When Virgin trains from Central to Euston are faster and cheaper the...

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Glasgow Airport unveils 30-year “Master Plan”
17/02/11 | Comment

BAA Plans are all very well.... but is BAA not obliged by Monopolies non-compliance to divest one scottish airport, with GLA selected? Whatever we see on the airside to the good, it's still a hell of an airport to visit from the east, whether...

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Bmi to axe London-Glasgow route
06/02/11 | Comment

Very bad news for GLA and Scotland. Three big lessons: 1. STAR ALLiance members must note that Lufthansa doesn't see feeders as worthy of credit from the longhaul traffic they generate 2. Scotland should note that the lost LHR routes are not...

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Bmi to launch routes to Norway and Morocco
03/02/11 | Comment

So we can learn a thing or two here: - first that Lufthansa et al see little or no benefit in the value of feeders from GLA by its BMid subsidiary into Star Alliance longhauls from LHR. - second that BMid is not prepared to mitigate the...

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