JetBlue has found a very creative way to celebrate the upcoming Earth Day on the 22nd of April 2015. The airline which for the first time in its history initiated an overhaul in its uniform for its staff last year, is intending to recycle the extras from the old batch and re-purpose them into Fashion…
Reuters is reporting that Rolls Royce has bagged an order worth $9.2 billion at list prices to supply 50 of its Trent engines for the Airbus A380 airplanes ordered by Emirates. This is in stark departure from the Engine Alliance engines that the existing orders of Emirates A380s are coming with. The airline is the…
You may have seen EVA Air Hello Kitty jet, the Air New Zealand All Blacks and many more but nothing beats the charm of a seeing a Star Wars jet come to life. ANA has decided to paint its upcoming B787-9 in the R2-D2 theme, this project is part of the 5 year ANA strategy…
Wall Street Journal has reported that an Asiana flight OZ162 flying from Seoul to Hiroshima crash landed at Hiroshima airport. The plane, an Airbus A320 was carrying 73 passengers and 8 crew members of whom at least 18 people sustained minor injuries. The plane which after hitting multiple communication towers on its approach to the…
Club Vistara (CV) is the frequent flyer miles program of the TATA-Singapore Airlines joint venture airline in India. The airline seems to be very aggressively rolling out tie-ups with its parent company and the subsidiaries, which is a clear sign of its intent to fly abroad soon. Vistara has won rave reviews about its quality…
The Street ran an interesting article about the most innovative routes that are now being run using a B787. One of those interesting routes is 7,071 mile Beijing-Boston flight on a B788 flown by the China’s fourth biggest airline, Hainan. Hainan is a unique airline given that at a time when most of the Chinese…
Qatar Airways is running a promotion whereby you can earn up to 100,000 bonus Qmiles from April to December 2015 by simply travelling to at least one of the destination cities in each themed segment city during that theme’s offer period. You need to register for this offer by signing into your Qmiles account here….
IHG is a running a promotion whereby it lets you buy up to 60,000 points along with 36,000 points as bonus for USD $690 which amounts to a 60% bonus on your buy. The promotion runs untill March 29th, 2015. Head over to the link here and enter your IHG account details to buy the…
AMEX privileges itself on exclusivity, doesn’t matter whether it’s exclusively high transaction charges or the amount of privileges it offers to its customers. I am a big fan of AMEX and enjoy the way they offer such a unique outstanding experience to their customers. Their Membership rewards program is one of the best programs to…
Trident Privilege, the hotel loyalty program of the Trident Group of hotels in India is running a referral promotion whereby existing members can refer new sign ups to join the program and in return both of them earn a free stay when the new sign up successfully completes their first stay at the participating Trident…
Reuters has reported that Lufthansa pilots’ strike has entered the 3rd consecutive day leading to hundreds of cancellations with the worst affected being the long haul flights. The strike called for by Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) the union representing the pilots demanding better contracts is expected to continue on Friday also. For more details check out…
According to a Wall Street Journal article, Priceline group is going to buy Rocketmiles, a hotel booking website which allows you to earn frequent flyer miles on various airline partners. Priceline intends to pay about $20 million for the deal which seems to be part of the trend of travel website consolidation happening the industry…