026 BOM - Poland LOT bitcoins, LHR Terminal 6, Pegasus Instragram, Virgin America Spotify

Flight 026. Two US dollars to travel around Asia. Bitcoins for the Polish airline LOT. Spotify on board at Virgin America. A new stylish entrant in the smart carry-on space. A service that finds you the best airline deals, unless you beat them. A new ranking tells which airlines treat passenger best when it comes for compensation. A farm at JFK. A mysterious Terminal 6 at LHR. The backstories of a pilot in Turkey through Instagram.

Show Notes

SHOW NOTES

Wishing well to Oscar Munoz

• United Continental CEO Oscar Munoz Suffers Heart Attack - WSJ

Alex & Paul's travels

• Attaché - YouTube
• - EXPIRED OPEN JAW FLIGHTS FROM MADRID, SPAIN TO MUMBAI, INDIA, RETURNING TO EITHER LONDON OR DUBLIN FOR ONLY £213/€290
• Cello Aviation
• Boeing 767-300 | About BA | British Airways

BA and OneWorld to grow network?

• British Airways' Parent Wants Another Airline and Finnair Is the Best Target – Skift
• Ryanair in talks on first interlining deals with long-haul carriers | Reuters

Qantas to fly direct to Europe?

• Qantas Boeing 787s could fly from Dubai to European cities - Australian Business Traveller
• Qantas is considering nonstop flights between Australia and the UK

The future of London Heathrow

• Heathrow Reveals a Vision for Its Third Runway Expansion – Skift

JetBlue farms potatoes at New York Kennedy

• JetBlue is Growing Potatoes at JFK Airport | Travel + Leisure
• JetBlue Opened a Potato Farm at JFK Airport -- NYMag

Hiroko Tabuchi's pictures of JFK TWA terminal

• Hiroko Tabuchi on Twitter: "Open House today at JFK's gorgeous TWA Flight Center, designed by Eero Saarinen, reopening soon as a hotel http://t.co/idbtQ8Jm3o"
• Hiroko Tabuchi on Twitter: "More shots from the TWA Flight Center open house today #OHNYwknd http://t.co/fIIqlDtMfq"

HKG delays third runway

• Asia's Busiest International Airport Has to Wait 10 Years for a New Runway – Skift

Fly for 2 dollars around Asia!

• - $2 FLIGHTS WITH AIR ASIA...CRAZY!!!!!

LOT goes bitcoin

• LOT Polish Airlines now accepts bitcoins as payment

New websites to score flying deals

• Flystein
• Flystein saved me $1,100 in airline ticket costs and all they got was this lousy blog post
• Build Multi City & Stopover Flight Deals #QuestOrganizer
• Skyscanner 4.0 for iOS
• Online flight comparison site Skyscanner set to be valued at £1bn - Telegraph
• Fareness - Discover When & Where for Low Airfare

Virgin America introduces Spotify

• Virgin America And Spotify Team Up For Free Inflight Music Streaming | TechCrunch
• Virgin America Puts the 'Multi' in Multimedia with Spotify and the New York Times. | Virgin America
• Virgin America Partners With Spotify, New York Times
• Virgin on Spotify

Virgin America's A320 Inside View

• Google Street View Your Next Mood-Lit Virgin America Flight

Netflix in the air

• Netflix wants to dominate in-flight entertainment with a streaming service in airplanes - Tech News - Digital Spy
• Now Streaming Netflix - At 35,000 Feet: Virgin America Teams Up With Netflix To Offer Travelers Free WiFi Access To The World's Leading Internet TV Network | Virgin America

Wifi on the transatlantic route

• Icelandair’s New In-Flight Wi-Fi Study Is a Thing of Beauty – Skift
• End of the inflight movie? Screens set to be axed from long-haul flights with carriers streaming content to passengers' phones and tablets | Daily Mail Online

Norwegian promises low prices to cross the Atlantic

• Norwegian Air CEO Says $69 Flights From U.S. to Europe Coming Soon - NBC News

The different perception about the passenger experience

• Southwest Airlines CEO Thinks Its Passenger Experience Is Just Fine – Skift
• United Airlines Acting CEO Rejects Notion It Has 'Lost' Its Frontline Employees – Skift
• Passengers Get What They Pay For Says IATA's Outgoing CEO – Skift

Compensation for delays

• Money Saving Expert UK Flight delay compensation
• AirHelp - Introducing the AirHelp Score: How one number can get you more from the Airlines! (US Version)

Expedia offers more plane data at booking

• Expedia Takes A Small Step To Making Flights More Transparent

A new smart-carry (that we like)

• G-RO: Revolutionary Carry-on Luggage by Shalgi Design Studio — Kickstarter

Mandatory plane dashboard cams?

• Pilots Can’t Stop Cockpit Video Forever - Bloomberg Business

This PEgasus pilot has such a great Instagram account

• @elif737 on Instagram: “🙈Still easier than ironing 💪🏽😁 "RUNWAY 06 Wet, W 36020G31KT TSRA " Lovely Gust”

No, the LHR Concorde didn't dissapear

• BOAB in the hanger — Heritage Concorde Facebook group

BOM

• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Travellers
• Airport Spotting Blog » Blog Archive Guide to aviation and spotting in India - Airport Spotting Blog

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Creators and Guests

Host

Alex Hunter

Co-host of Layovers, Creator of Attache Travel

Host

Paul Papadimitriou

Creator and host of Layovers

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