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Christmas & New Year Greetings for 2015 from the world’s airlines

As is customary for the festive season, many of the world’s airlines have produced films and images to share the spirit of the Christmas / Festive / Holiday (delete as appropriate!) season and mark the end of a year of travelling in 2015.

Here are a few videos and images that caught our attention. As always, a consistent theme of these videos is a reminder about what air travel is fundamentally about: bring people together. We’ll update this page with more videos throughout the month.

Air Canada – Air Canada: Experiencing the #ACgiftofhome

Air New Zealand – A Kiwi Christmas

American Airlines: Happy Holidays from American Airlines

Delta: Holiday Greetings

Finnair: The Secret Partnership

Finnair: Santa’s Gift Drop

Iberia: Feliz Navidad

KLM – Bluey and the Christmas Airshow

Singapore Airlines: Christmas with Singapore Airlines

Swiss 

Virgin America Elves Visit San Francisco Animal Care & Control

Virgin Atlantic says #thankyoudeer to its customers this Christmas

WestJet: WestJet Christmas Miracle – 12,000 Mini-Miracles

Christmas Greetings from the world’s airlines

As is customary for this time of year, many of the world’s airlines have produced films and images to share the spirit of the Christmas / Festive / Holiday (delete as appropriate!) season and mark the end of a year of travelling in 2014.

Here are a few films and images that caught our attention. A clear leitmotif is what airlines are fundamentally about: bringing people together.

Air Canada – The Gift Of Home For The Holidays

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Thai Airways & Turkish Airlines delay move to London Heathrow Terminal 2 until 28 August

Things had appeared to be going well with the opening of Heathrow’s new Terminal 2 with United Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, and ANA now ensconced in the terminal and no sign of a repeat of the disastrous opening of Terminal 5 in 2008.

However, gremlins seem to have emerged.

There was a baggage system failure affecting passengers at Terminal 2 last week. For reasons we don’t entirely understand Terminal 2 is using Terminal 1’s baggage system.

And we don’t know if this is connected, but there have been very well publicised intermittent problems with the baggage system at Terminal 5 caused by software issues over the past few days.

To allow further testing of the baggage system, Thai Airways Turkish Airlines’ moves from Terminal 3 to Terminal 2 tomorrow (2 July 2014) has been postponed until Thursday 28 August.
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London Heathrow Terminal 2 opens on Wednesday 4 June 2014 with United Airlines the first airline to move into the terminal

Heathrow Terminal 2, “The Queen’s Terminal”, opens to the public next week, on 4 June 2014.

The new terminal, the first to open since Terminal 5 in 2008, has been designed by Luis Vidal + Architects.

It will house all Star Alliance member airlines at London Heathrow who are currently split across Terminals 1, 3 and 4. These include United Airlines, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, SAS, Swiss and Air New Zealand.

The terminal will also house non-alliance members Germanwings (a subsidiary of Lufthansa) and Aer Lingus, as well as Virgin Atlantic’s domestic “Little Red” flights to Manchester, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

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London Heathrow Terminal 2 “The Queen’s Terminal” opens in three months’ time on 4 June 2014

If you’ve flown through London Heathrow recently you couldn’t have failed to notice the progress in the building of Terminal 2, “The Queen’s Terminal”, which opens in three months from today, on 4 June 2014.

The new terminal, the first to open since Terminal 5 in 2008, has been designed by Luis Vidal + Architects.

It will house all Star Alliance member airlines at London Heathrow who are currently split across Terminals 1, 3 and 4. These include United Airlines, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, SAS, Swiss and Air New Zealand.

The terminal will also house non-alliance members Germanwings (a subsidiary of Lufthansa) and Aer Lingus, as well as Virgin Atlantic’s domestic “Little Red” flights to Manchester, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

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New & Noteworthy: Air-France KLM finds a buy for CityJet, London Heathrow Terminal Moves, Lufthansa Miles & More

Here are a few new & noteworthy items for today, Friday 7 June:

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