http://www.flightblogging.com Flights, airports and onward travel Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some people may want to bury their heads in the sand, and pretend that we can keep burning fossil fuels forever, but at Flightmapping.com, we've always taken the long term view, and wondered how medium to long haul journeys might adapt the challenges of Climate Change and oil price rises ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/12/12/what-happens-to-flights-when-the-oil-runs-dry/ So Ryanair have just announced that they will no longer be accepting Visa Electron as a means of payment in order to avoid their £5 card transaction fee. Does this mean the end of their famous 1p flights, or indeed of any of their lowest price offers, where on any given ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/30/ryanair-prepaid-mastercards/ 7 Habits of highly effective travel cheapskates (based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey) 1.       Be active – hunt out the best deals. Get on all the emailing lists, have your electron card ready – and if you see a great deal, book it before ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/23/7-habits-of-highly-effective-travel-cheapskates/ I'm flying to Billund next week, courtesy of those kind folks at Ryanair, who sold me a one-way flight to Billund from Birmingham for just 1p. There's various places in Denmark, Sweden and Finland that I want to visit, and I'll be flying back from Helsinki to Gatwick with easyJet. A ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/06/cheap-flights-to-denmark-copenhagen-v-billund/ According to this news winging its way over from Australia, V Australia, which is the international arm of Virgin Blue, are expected to announce new non-stop flights to Perth from London in 2011. This route would be the second longest in the world, with flight times of just 16 hours - ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/05/non-stop-australia-flights-to-become-a-reality/ Following on from yesterday's news that Lufthansa can't find a suitable buyer for bmi, we've had confirmation today that jobs are going to be axed, and that routes will be curtailed at Birmingham, Manchester and Cardiff. So, is it wise for bmibaby to concentrate their efforts on one large base at ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/05/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-bmibaby/ I was asked on twitter by @Korb0s why there aren't any Ryanair flights to Greece. The question could of course be extended to why there aren't more cheap flights to Greece from all of the budget airlines, with Easyjet and Jet2 perhaps being the main exceptions. I narrowed down the ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/05/why-dont-no-frills-airlines-offer-more-cheap-flights-to-greece/ So, Warren Buffett has invested some $26 billion buying American freight operator BNSF, with news commentators hailing this as an 'all-in' bet on the future of the US economy. But there's more to it than that - it is, of course, a huge leap of faith into the future of ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/04/what-does-warren-buffetts-train-investment-say-about-airlines/ I like to consider myself at least reasonably geographically aware, but one of the advertisers on this website has gone for an all out push on cheap flights to Ornskoldsvik. Where, I here you ask - well, I was thinking exactly the same, and no, for once, this isn't the ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/03/where-the-hell-is-ornskoldsvik/ We're very used to the £1 - or even 1p flight offer here, and yes, we have booked these for ourselves, so we know that they DO exist, and that the extra charges on top CAN be avoided. So I was interested to see that Flybe have come up with a ... http://www.flightblogging.com/2009/11/03/flybe-in-1-car-offer/