Quick Take: Delta announces Glasgow service for 2017
Delta is adding Glasgow, Scotland to its route map but not for 50 weeks from now. The summer seasonal service will launch on a 757-200...
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Did Virgin Atlantic actually win the bmi buy-out battle?
As London-based carrier bmi was wrapping up operations there was a bit of a battle over who would get the opportunity to own the remnants...
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Is Ryanair completely crazy?
The answer to this question is probably a resounding "yes" but generally there is some need to qualify it. Crazy smart in many cases as...
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Award booking awesomeness (Part 1)
Some folks love the challenge of earning frequent flyer points. To me, that’s just business. I do it and I accrue and I move on...
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Playing games with the Lewis Chessmen
No one knows exactly where they came from, where the were going or how they happened to be discovered on a small island in the...
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Pierowall, Westray: Island beaches and castles
We arrived in Westray by airplane from Kirkwall, on the Orkney mainland (the Orcadian name for the largest of the Orkney Islands). And then we...
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Visiting Papa Westray: Small, but not at all boring
When I mentioned my intent to visit Westray and Papa Westray Islands in Scotland’s Orkeny Islands, a friend suggested that it would necessarily be a...
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Esha Ness: On the edge of nowhere
The Shetland Islands are far removed from the rest of Scotland, their political home. Indeed, standing in the main town of Lerwick one is closer...
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Ten flights in eleven days…Not a bad trip at all
So I’m somewhere vaguely south of Greenland right now. I’m sitting at the Upper Class bar of a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-300 on the late...
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The world’s shortest commercial flight and me
For an aerophile one of the highlights of a trip to the Orkney Isles in Scotland is an opportunity to experience the world’s shortest commercial...