Today’s guest post is by aviation and travel blogger Ben. You may recall TLFL’s previous post published on 6th August 2020 in which the delays to the delivery of Boeing’s 777x were outlined. This post contains updates to that information, and as we shall see, 2025 is now the date…
Japan begins to reopen Japan has officially announced the start of its reopening to tourists in June but if you live in the UK I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. However, this is a big step in the right direction. Japan will open for group travel in June for…
Qatar 20% off from Gatwick Qatar will resume flying from London Gatwick on 5 June 2022. Given that they are still flying from T5 at the moment there is little difference in lounge experience if you fly from Gatwick. Although it is expected that Heathrow’s T4 will open by July…
Hilton 3 for 2 offer Hilton has extended its great value Get your ‘3rd night free’ at Hilton’s luxury brands in Europe, and ‘4th night free’ in the Middle East and now extended it to many other places. Some hotels do vary slightly with how many nights you need to…
ITA’s new A350 business class ITA is the reincarnation of Italy’s Alitalia airline and is part of Skyteam. For those who use Skyteam airlines, their new long haul aircraft should make them worthy of consideration. (TLFL will shortly feature a short haul review of ITA). 📸 #PHOTOS | At last,…
ITA is the latest incrantation of Alitalia. They are currently part of Skyteam although various airlines have been rumoured to be interested in buying a stake in them including Lufthansa. ITA has wet leased two German Airways E190s specifically for the flights from Milan Linate to London City and a…
The return of the £10 pom! By Jenna Rank (our Australian resident writer) While this may not be of interest to all TLFL readers, you may know someone that would be interested in applying! The scheme, originally part of the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, was started by the Australian government…
In part 1 I looked at Finnair’s new AirLounge non-reclining business class seat. In this article, I will look at the new business class dining concept and the service on board as well as Wi-Fi and entertainment. This was a normal flight, not a press trip and the crew had…
Although there have been quite a few reviews of the new non-reclining seats, these have only been used mainly on short-haul for training. As you can imagine there is only so much you can tell from a short 3 hour flight during the day compared to testing the seats on…
BA Brandygate Recently BA’s cognac has disappeared from most of their lounges and from onboard both long and haul flights, even in first class. The printed menus no longer feature it which made me wonder if this was a permanent removal from BA. A lot of readers were understandably quite…
