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The X-Factor team has chosen British Airways, as the official airline to fly its celebrity judges and contestants out to the final auditions at the judges’ houses. Stand by for the episodes which will air over three nights on ITV this Friday (October 3) at 9pm, Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

In our last blog we revealed, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, the airlines which offered the roomiest seats and the best entertainment and we were pleased to share.   Then we found this! 

This story about an eight-year-old boy who tried to smuggle his pet turtle through airport security in his underpants made us chuckle!   

 Adeline Noorderhaven, Manager EUclaim, UK takes a look ahead of the European Courts of Justice (ECJ) judgment on time of arrival.

What constitutes flight arrival time? That’s the question currently being asked at the European Courts of Justice (ECJ) by Germany’s budget airline Germanwings. Why does it matter?  It’s all about the minutes and of course the money.  If an airline is responsible for a delay and arrives 3 hours after its scheduled arrival time passengers are entitled to compensation up to 600 euros as stated in EC regulation 261/2004.  Although airlines battle hard not to pay out flight delay compensation to passengers it is the law and it must be upheld.  But what is not clear and remains a grey area which urgently needs definition – is when does a plane officially arrive?

It seems that the end is nigh for the reclining seat on planes. In a survey of 1,000 passengers by Skyscanner last year it found that 91% of passengers would like to see reclining seats banned, while 60% of cabin crew said that people’s tendency to recline without warning or thought for fellow passengers was a regular reason for a mid-air tantrum.

The European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus has lodged a patent application for a new aircraft seat that could add more than 50 passengers aboard a narrow-bodied plane such as the Airbus A319, the mainstay of the EasyJet fleet.  While Ryanair may squeeze 10 more people on each of its Boeing jets

Monarch Airlines – 2.79% of flights to Rome delayed or cancelled in first four months of summer season

Infographic: EUclaim praises UK airlines for reducing flight delays by 11.78%. 

Two families, set to depart from East Midlands Airport spent a long 10 hours at Birmingham Airport after they were allowed to board a Ryanair flight to Latvia instead of the flight to their intended destination 3,850km away in Almeria, Spain!