Airlines: November 2007 Archives

Reading Kieran Daly's Unusual Attitude blog post about Easyjet's security procedures reminded me of another oddity with Easyjet's online booking policy.

A colleague of mine recently sent me his booking confirmation, noting the unusual email that Easyjet uses to mail its booking confirmations:

-----Original Message-----
From: easyJet.com [mailto:blackhole@easyJet.com]
Sent: 2007
To:
Subject: easyJet booking reference

easyJet.com - book cheap flights, hotels, car hire for low cost travel
-----------------------------------------------------
Flight booking: Confirmation

My colleague accompanied it with an amusing note:

"I always thought that it was going into a blackhole. A bit of a metaphor for the whole travel trade experience: No light ever escapes and time becomes infinite on the event horizon."

I think the title says it all in this great story, except that i am intrigued that in the Star Telegram report, they refer to drunken rambling as speaking in a "thick-tongued manner". Maybe that's why he had salad cream all over him!

This has to be my favourite explanation for being arrested at an airport. If you can better it however, go to our AirSpace forums and have your say.

Well it's finally happened; at a Dubai event already packed with announcements, the A380 has been sold to its first VIP client, and shockingly it is not everyone's favourite Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Unsurprisingly, the shortlist of those that could afford a mere $310 Million investment is small, and so it is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud who takes the prize as the first owner of the world's ultimate boy toy. The "Flying Palace" is born.

In part one of their massive order announcement, Emirates Airline has ordered 81 Airbus aircraft.

At a press conference at the Dubai air show Emirates chairman and Chief Exec, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, said “The A350XWBs and A380s will play an important role in supporting Emirates’ and Dubai’s growth plans.”

However, with an Emirates/Boeing press conference set to follow, indicators are that an additional agreement with Boeing will further increase the order size.

The order is valued at 20.2 billion USD.

More to come ...