Created by Gabriele Pezzini, Hermès Design Director, this extremely ergonomic travelling companion has exceptional functional and aesthetic qualities. Its brushed anodised aluminium shell, the interior surface of which is reinforced with carbon and Kevlar, provide unparalleled resistance to wear and tear. The luggage is subtly highlighted with two natural cowhide handles – an unmistakable reference to the Hermès travel world. The bag’s technical allure elegantly contrasts with the sensuality of its interior, cased entirely in leather. Its two handles allow for it to be carried horizontally or vertically, whilst its multidirectional wheels make for incredible ease of use.
Hermés Orion Suitcase
Hermés Orion Suitcase opened
Hermès is certainly better known for their high quality standard than for innovation, which makes the Orion suitcase certainly stand out from their regular collection.
Via: Highsnobiety
Tourists in Barcelona, Spain, may soon have to pay a special tourist tax for every day they spend in the city.
Authoroties in Barcelona wants visitors to pay the sum of €1 a day. Barcelona could thus become the first Spanish city to introduce such a tourism tax, the newspaper La Vanguardia writes.
The income would be spend on promotion of the tourism industry and other related things.
Barcelona receives about 6,5 million tourists each year.
Is this a sign of the times?
Luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton team up with tatoo artist Scott Campbell for a cooperation resulting in a series of bags to be released for spring / summer 2011. The bags feature Campbell’s intricate artwork on several designs, including solid leather offerings and the label’s iconic damier print silhouette. You can bet they will be pricey and a big hit, but will they reach the same heights as the graffiti or Murakami ones? Some of these should be great for the frequent traveller.
Scott Campbell bag for Louis Vuitton 1
Scott Campbell bag for Louis Vuitton 3
Scott Campbell bag for Louis Vuitton 4
Airbus owner EADS said that aircraft deliveries will be the same in 2010 as they were in 2009.
The order book stood at around 416 billion euros at the end of the first quarter. Gross orders will be between 250 and 300 aircrafts during the year according to the company.
Revenues during the first quarter amounted to 9.0 billion euros, against the expected 8.8 billion, according to Bloomberg News.
The adjusted EBIT result for the first quarter was EUR 0.2 billion (0.4). The company expects that the A380 project will strain on the adjusted EBIT performance significantly during the year. According to the company’s Chief Financial Officer Hans Peter Ring, there will be more than 20 pieces A380S be delivered during the year, which is in line with what was previously announced.
SAS expects to have lost between 80 and 90 million US Dollars due to the volcanic ash from Iceland.
Large sums have been spent to pay for alternative transportation and reimbursement of expenses for the passengers’ hotel stays, meals and more. The sum also includes actual booking losses up to and including May 7.
-”This is a natural one and therefore an event that can not be insured against in our industry. Together with our trade association AEA, we work for compensation from the EU and the Scandinavian countries, based on a model that avoids distortion of competition.” says Mats Jansson, President and CEO of SAS.
The number of passengers in April fell by a total of 28 percent to 1.6 million passengers compared to April 2009.
The load factor was also influenced negatively and fell by 2.9 percentage points to 69.6 percent. Yield declined in March by 10.1 percent in April and the development is expected to remain negative and lower than the same month last year.
The Turkish airline Pegasus Airlines, follows Turkish Airlines in their footsteps by opening a low-cost route to Istanbul.
Earlier this year it was announced that Turkish Airline’s low cost division Anadolujet would open a route between Stockholm and Istanbul. It would be trafficated four times a week. Pegasus now choose to do the same thing. On 11 June Pegaus are starting this new route with four flights a week - all of them in the middle of the night. Flights take off from Stockholm Arlanda Airport 2:45 and arrive 7:10 in Istanbul. Stockholm becomes Pegaus first Swedish destination.
-”There is considerable interest in low cost flights between Stockholm and Istanbul.” said Ali Sabanci, CEO of Pegasus.
As a sign of the current times when many airlines are having a hard time showing proftis, Continental Airlines and United Airlines are in a meeting about a possible merger between them. If the airlines merge, they will pass Delta Air Lines to form the world’s largest airline. Negotiations for a merger began earlier this month, but airlines were already in similar talks two years ago, but those didn’t amount to anything.
Now, however, they have reached the point where they have decided that United Airlines will be the surviving brand and the airline’s base will be Chicago, Airwise reports.
It was just over a week ago that plans for the merger between United Airlines and U.S. Airways were put down.
As of 1 April, the infamous EU blacklist of airlines got updated.
Air Koryo is once again able to fly into the EU with two aircrafts that comply to the international standard of safety rules. The other planes in Air Koryos fleet is however still forbidden from entering EU.
TAAG Angola Airlines are also allowed to fly to other airports in Europe, but under specific conditions.
All airlines from Sudan blacklisted because of the country’s poor aviation safety plant operations. The same fate is suffered by all airlines from the Philippines.
Also Iran Air are punished with restrictions, only some of the planes in their fleet may operate in the EU.
Asia’s largest airline is expected to cut workforce by 30 percent over the next three years. Every third employee of Japan Airlines is expected to become redundant in the failing Japan Airlines over the next three years. Salaries and benefits will also be lowered and subsidiary JAL Hotels will be sold out, writes the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
The country’s newly appointed Finance Minister, Naoto Kan, last week said he expects the authorities in charge of the case will give financial aid to rescue the troubled airline.
In about two months, Armani Hotels will open its first hotel located in the world’s tallest building. Armani Hotel Dubai, designed by Giorgio Armani, opens on 18 March. The hotel is built in the newly opened Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, aims to become the most exclusive hotel in Dubai even eclipsing Burj Al Arab and the mighty Atlantis.
The hotel is the first in a series of branded Armani Hotels & Resorts. Sister hotels are also going to open in Milan, Marrakech and in the Egyptian Marassi. Over the next ten years Armani hotels is to open up in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and London.
