It’s the final straw. Well done Emirates for introducing eco-friendly paper straws this month. And binning plastic swizzle sticks and stirrers and replacing them with eco-friendly alternatives.
And from August plastic bags used for Inflight Retail purchases are to be replaced with paper bags.
It reckons it will be able to remove an estimated 81.7 million single-used plastic items from landfill each year.
And that’s not all! It has introduced onboard blankets made from 28 recycled bottles, saving 88 million plastic bottles from landfill by the end of 2019.
The airline is also segregating large plastic bottles on board to be recycled in Dubai and the rest of the world. This diverts an estimated 3 tonnes or about 150,000 plastic bottles from landfill in Dubai each month.
Emirates operates two flights from Dublin each day to Dubai and from there connects passengers to more than 150 destinations. Visit http://www.emirates.ie. And why not visit http://www.emiratesholidays.ie for some great suggestions too.
London calling
There are some things on our doorstep which we just take for granted… and obviously just shouldn’t.
One such is London.
London is one of the great cities of the world and so familiar yet so new… no matter how many times you visit you will always find something you either never knew was there or you just hadn’t got round to yet.
For me one of the great joys of London is Theatreland. It’s Beautiful! Cue for me to dig out my weekend there when I caught the dazzling and fun-filled Beautiful: The Carole King Story a couple of years back. Bear with me and I’ll post it soon.
For now Aer Lingus flies Dublin to London City from €47.99, one way including taxes and charges, to Gatwick €29.99 and to Heathrow €45.99. Cork to Heathrow is from €45.99, Shannon to Heathrow €45.99 and Knock to Gatwick €32.99. See http://www.aerlingus.com. And visit my review of London’s West End and a musical that made the earth move…. https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2019/06/23/carole-king-youre-beautiful-londonwestend-musical/(opens in a new tab)
Shout of Africa
Congratulations to Ethiopian Airlines which has just been named the Best Airline in Africa for the third year running at the Skytrax 2019 World Airlines Awards in Paris.
Ethiopian also won Best Business Class in Africa and Best Economy Class in Africa at the awards. Ethiopian has 120 destinations worldwide. For best rates visit http://www.ethiopianairlines.com.
I missed out on the pleasures of flying out with Ethiopian this year to Addis Ababa, preferring to send a female colleague instead…. well, it was World Women’s Day… they were going to ‘meet’ Lucy, the world’s ‘oldest’ woman.
And it is a pleasure I will certainly be keen to enjoy in the future. The Ethiopians are a wonderful friendly people and have the secret of good ageing… as shown by Lucy.
But also because everyone there is seven years younger on account of them using a different calendar as they explained the first Enkutatash I celebrated with them at Dublin Airport… and such was the hospitality of Ethiopian;s Country Manager for Ireland, Meseret Tekalign and her team, and food I went back for seconds this year.
Flyin’ air
Now I’ve been a customer of Mr O’Leary in the last week and intend to be again next weekend. It is an acquired taste but there is no denying that he has added to the gaiety of the nation and that his fares are darned reasonable.
Just back from Lourdes, and I will tell you about it in the coming weeks, and at just two hours it isn’t far to go for a miracle.
Ryanair is offering Lourdes at €22.98 one-way among a tranche of other great offers.
And this will leave you lots of spare change to buy those holy trinkets, candles, holy water and Virgin Mary statues because if my Dear Old Mum is anything to go by you can never have too much holy stuff around the house to bring you luck.
MEET YOU IN THE SKIES
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