Tag archive: Emirates

British Airways is going to allow passengers to use mobile phones to text, e-mail and surf from later this year. But that usage is going to be very limited. You’ll need to be flying between London and New York on one of the company's all-new 32-seater, all-business-class flights, the Daily Telegraph reports, and those flights won’t be cheap. “The service is aimed at people in the Square Mile,” said a… Read More

Emirates, the airline based in Dubai, has become the first to allow the use of mobile phones for making calls and sending texts during flights.   So farit’s only been done on a flight between Dubai and Casablanca, on an Airbus A340 that had been fitted with special equipment to prevent the calls affecting electronic flight systems, but it willbe expanded to other planes and routes, the BBC reports. Later this year the company will be… Read More

Have you ever landed after a long flight and waited at the carousel for your baggage? And waited and waited, only to eventually find out your bag never arrived with you? With the number of lost bags it’s something most of us have experienced. But a new trial at London’s Heathrow airport might eventually make that a thing of the past.   The six-month trial with Emirates Airlines will tag each bad with radio frequency… Read More

Three men have been jailed in Britain for inciting terrorist murder on the Internet.   Younis Tsouli, 23, Tariq Al-Daour, 21, and Wasemm Mughal were all found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in London. Moroccan-born Tsouli, a computer expert who worked with Al-Queda, received 10 years. Al-Daour, a British citizen born in the Arab Emirates, was given six-and-a-half years, while Mughal, who has a degree in chemistry from Leicester University,… Read More

SeatGuru.com, a travel focused site which provides airplane seating and in-flight services information, yesterday announced they'd redesigned their Web site with new content offerings. They've also expanded their coverage to include 30 airlines and over 250 aircraft seat maps. Updated features on SeatGuru.com, said the Web site, will provide visitors with facts on flight check- in policies, baggage guidelines, unaccompanied… Read More