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ALERT: London City Airport closure, Swiss Air evacuation on runway

Twitterer Mike Mompi’s got a good image of what’s going on. From his twitter page: Update 16:31hrs GMT,  Statement from London City Airport’s website: “London City Airport can confirm that a technical issue occurred onboard Swiss flight LX437 due to depart to Geneva at around 15.00 on Thursday 27 March 2014.  74 passengers and four crew…

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DON’T VISIT NETHERLANDS NEXT WEEK (24-25th March)

Well not quite… I don’t mean to put you off entirely! I’m not aware of the media coverage outside The Netherlands, so you may or may not be aware that it’s the Nuclear Security Summit next week, where many presidents and prime ministers of countries across the world will converge about 10mins from my front…

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I’ve been quoted in Business Traveller…

Sometimes I wonder if I have amnesia, as I don’t have much recollection of doing this interview, but Jenny Southan from Business Traveller magazine seems to have quoted me in her article called “Slash & Burn” which investigates the devaluation of loyalty programmes. It online version is here (paid subscription required), but if you pick up…

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Ralph the Flying Dutchboy defends Skyteam.

Last November I invited Mike from Ik Vlieg Veel to write a guest post about why you should fly Star Alliance instead of Skyteam if you’re based in The Netherlands. Ralph, another fellow blogger based here in The Netherlands, responded with his own critique last month. The text is all in Dutch, so use Google or Bing…