Archive for April, 2010

Uzbekistan Airways Fail

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Uzbekistan Airways, a company we haven’t covered here (for obvious reasons) has a slogan that makes you think twice before boarding. Is this how it was meant to be? (source)

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AirlinePost interviews KLMfan

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If you’re active on Twitter and you follow airline accounts, you have probably noticed there’s an active KLM account updated daily with some fresh info. @KLMfan is an account maintained by a fan of the Dutch company, started long before the company took interest in social media. We’ve had the chance to ask Tim a [...]

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Slammed by the French Labour Court, EasyJet will have to pay €1.5M

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After a 3-year investigation years over the legal status of hundreds workers (170) based at Orly Airport, EasyJet was ordered to pay up to €1.5m to the French labour healthcare public body. The orange airline was more precisely “accused of failing to declare workers in Orly between June 2003 and December 2006”.

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Got some change? I have to use the toilet!

Got some change? I have to use the toilet!

Prepare to hear this if you’re flying anytime soon with… Ryanair, of course. The Irish carrier seems to be in a competition with itself for introducing the most absurd taxes aviation could ever experience. And when we think they finally won, Ryanair announces a new tax.

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Ryanair about to launch its first social media campaign

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Ryanair has announced to launch its first online community of loyal customers to step into the world of social world. As said by spokesman Stephen McNamara, the company has not gone into social media earlier because of the volume of customers it was dealing with which in turn would result into a fruitless social media [...]

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