The final leg of the trip to Cairo featured an upgrade to World Business Class on the 747 after a few hassles with airport security. A relaxing end to an interesting couple of weeks.
I mentioned a while ago about Air France by CityJet launching new services from London City. Most of these services are now fully operational. However, for reasons I’ve not yet been able to get an answer to the services to Edinburgh, Dundee and Milan Linate are still listed as ‘coming soon’.
UPDATE: Milan Linate has been quietly removed from the list of destinations.
KLM are holding a weekend sale between 27 and 30 April offering 20% off most economy class fares from most major UK airports. Their lowest prices will be from Heathrow but there will also be a limited number of discounts from London City too.
Here’s an example of the fares on offer:
- London Heathrow to Amsterdam - was £81 now £66
- London Heathrow to Zurich - was £146 now £118
- London Heathrow to Bucharest - was £189 now £153
Due to strike action from Danish SAS cabin crew there’s a higher than usual demand for KLM’s Amsterdam to Copenhagen services. The first leg of the journey was from London City to Amsterdam Schiphol on flight KL1564 which is, as usual, a KLM Cityhopper Fokker 50. The flight was almost full, 42 of the 50 seats were occupied and the flight was delayed slightly waiting for the final passenger to clear security.
A friend and I decided to take a weekend trip to Rome. We booked our flight on Alitalia flight number AZ0209 from Heathrow to Leonardo da Vinci/Fiumicino International Airport (FCO). Unfortunately, I had a little trouble getting to Heathrow thanks to delays on the London Underground and by the time I got there, I felt quite stressed. Thankfully, the queues for security in Heathrow were unusually small and quick and I was glad to be able to relax a bit in the Alitalia lounge and have a beer or two before we left for our flight to Rome. (more…)
The second time I’ve flown from Gatwick so far this year. This time the flight was on an Air France flight operated by their Brittany based regional subsidiary Brit Air. Flight was on a Saturday AF5811 departing Gatwick at 11am. (more…)
Air France subsidary CityJet has announced a number of new services from London City Airport in addition to the services they currently offer to Dublin and Paris CDG/Orly. (more…)
A reader on FlyerTalk Flying Blue forum has pointed out that the mileage redemption rate for flights from Europe to North America is going to be raised from 80,000 miles to 90,000 miles for business class travel. For the moment economy class remains unchanged at 50,000 miles and First Class at 100,000 miles. (more…)