Archive for the 'Premium Airlines' Category

AirAsia X – the premium flight experience

AirAsia X is now offering premium flight experience at competitive rates. The offer started in July 19 and will end on August the 1st, 2010. Flights booked during these dates are for travel from August the 2nd, 2010 to November 15th, 2010. This would be the lowest premium fare offered by the airline.
Flights from Kuala [...]

Decreasing luxury air travel demand

The luxury air travel that some of us used to enjoy before is now a thing of the past. The recession greatly affected us in so many ways and that includes the air travel. British Airways had already admitted that they don’t see the possibility that there would be a demand for luxury air [...]

British Airways cuts the canapes

British Airways is now cost cutting which is expected would save them up to £22m by removing canapés and chocolates from their long flights and budget travellers for short-haul journeys will be making do with pretzels and a paper cup drink instead of having a sandwich and bottled water. British Airways passengers with flights less [...]

British Airways and Iberia Merger Agreement

BA is willing to accept a 50-50 deal with Iberia according to El Economista, in exchange for the Spanish Airline to shoulder BA’s pension fund shortage. The new group would then have their headquarters in Madrid.
The share holder of Iberia Caja Madrid bank and Iberia itself had refused to make a comment as to [...]

American Airlines test fuel saving techniques

American Airlines will start using new fuel saving techniques for the first time. These techniques will not be implemented for the first time in small flights where the effects of fuel efficiency could be low but on a trans-Atlantic flight. American Airlines will test their new fuel efficiency techniques on June 11 with a flight [...]

Middle East Airlines to defy recession

Recession may have affected the airline industry in different continents but the Middle East is braving the tough economy – even displaying considerable profits in the recent months. As a location targeted by many skilled individuals for jobs, travel to the Middle East is only growing for the past few months.
In fact, an airline solely [...]

BA to offer premium flights only

British Airways is having some trouble keeping the losses down much like most airline industries around the world. Because of the decrease in demand for airline travel, airlines are having a hard time posting profits. BA has even cancelled a few routes in recent months because the demand to travel has decreased to a halt [...]

Lufthansa cancels flights

As the demand for travel slows down, airlines are now feeling the pinch of recession and Lufthansa is no exception. As the airline has experienced a downward trend in terms of the number of their passengers, Lufthansa has cancelled flights in Frankfurt as well as Bristol. Since May 1, the airline is no longer servicing [...]

Money matters and premium flights

Using a credit card to purchase plane tickets is not a unique transaction. In fact, online reservations for flights are only possible if airline ticket is paid with credit cards. Without credit cards, travelling would be very difficult and inconvenient as you’ll have to bring cash everywhere you go.
But the use of credit cards in [...]

Virgin Atlantic celebrates its birthday

Just because it’s a birthday for Virgin Atlantic does not mean that you do not get to benefit as well. In fact, Virgin Atlantic is going to celebrate its birthday by offering you great flights from Boston to London. These great flights start at prices as low as $181 each way. This does not include [...]