Let’s Fly The BA Way… – Part II

Well, for anyone who had been eagerly waiting to hear how the rest of my trip to London and back with BA went, my apologies for the delay but I think everyone accepts that me getting work done through Christmas and the New Year while back home in Dublin was evidently not going to happen!   What do we make of BA? In the end of course, it’ll come as no surprise to anyone that my second drink – my benchmark test of how caring airline staff are... Read More

Let’s Fly The BA Way…

Cheap, Toronto, let's do it... A couple of years ago, the opportunity presented itself by way of sheer cheapness, to travel with British Airways from Dublin to Toronto via London Heathrow. I was excited for all the nerdy travel reasons – first up, my previous trips to Canada had been with renowned cattle-class specialists Zoom Airlines, who had since ceased to exist, and had been of a quality ranging from relatively to completely awful. Secondly,... Read More

The Summer’s Best Escape Routes…

Will it or won't it...not a safe bet this summer, I'm afraid... Last week I made a bold speculation that the airlines may very well be screwed over for the next 2 years – if, as it did the last time it erupted, the Icelandic volcano continues on for that length of time. What that means, until such time as the respective European aviation authorities manage to gather around one table and sort out a unified response and guidelines on what... Read More

Oslo – The City That Never Lets You Sleep.

Like I say, Oslo...not really a city for late-night arrivals... This weekend we decided, for a change of pace, to try and see how we got on (being such cheap-skates as myself and Anna usually are) in the supposed world’s most expensive city – Oslo, Norway. To begin with, things got off to an incredibly bad start, which can be summarised using just one company’s name; Ryanair. As part of our mercy mission to keep costs to an absolute minimum,... Read More