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Travelling through Heathrow? It’s OK to take your imaginary friend
Heathrow Airport, in probably one of the oddest moves ever, has released a training video for its staff. It covers how to handle Imaginary…
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Miscellaneous | News | Travel
Wondering about your visits to the USA? Non US Citizens can see TSA Arrival and Departure Records
The reason that someone is given a secondary inspection at US Immigration is unknown to most. However, you can retrieve your arrival and departure records via a free TSA web site. More out of interest than anything I gave it a go and hey presto my records back to 2010 were displayed.
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Airlines | Commentary | News
La famigerata blacklist delle compagnie aeree.
[google-translator] Non tutte le compagnie sono uguali, e fin qui ci siamo, ma alcune sono meno uguali di altre. Queste ultime sono le compagnie…
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Airlines | Commentary | News
Avios gone? And they’re back
Just logged in to my BA account and a further ex-gracia transaction has occurred which recredits the number of Avios which BA deducted earlier…
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Avios gone? What the BA email says
I wrote earlier this morning about the problem with BA accounts being frozen. A couple of people has asked to see the email. The…
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Commentary | News | Travel
Avios gone? Why I’m pretty calm about the whole thing.
There is hysteria in the air on the internet. Yesterday blogger after blogger went in to meltdown because BA had identified a security breach…
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UK Government updates travel warnings with general threat of terrorism
The UK Government has taken the unusual step of updating all of its travel advice sections with a general warning of revenge attacks against…
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NY Times reporting that US will start to screen for Ebola at JFK, IAD, ATL and EWR
The US has just announced screening for passengers from selected West African countries arriving at key US airport. New York JFK and Newark, Washington Dulles and Atlanta are all introducing screening.
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Changes to the policy on electronic devices when flying from the UK
In a welcome change, British Airways has relaxed the policy for passengers whose electronics will not turn on. However, the UK Government has extended the new rules to more destinations – but won’t name them.
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BA and the US electronics rules – cannot turn it on; you cannot fly.
With the new rules on the travel for electronic devices to the US being introduced, British Airways has gone further – if it won’t turn on, neither you nor the device are flying. Some passengers may well be stranded for a time if the airlines finds your phone has run out of power. Those airport charging points are going to become a vital need for some.
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Airlines | Commentary | Travel
American Airlines Security at CDG – bAAd
Last weekend I flew from Paris CDG to San Francisco via AA’s service to New York. The ticket was a good value Iberia…
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Chicago Blue Line train crash at O’Hare video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K906IyHM1sk I only came across this yesterday. It shows the moment a Blue Line train operator falls asleep and the crashes in to the…
