Hooray. Godspeed. Is this the first revenue flight in the world since January? Thanks to flight aware, I can track this great event. (news.yahoo.com) More...
A couple who had intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, ended up 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, because of an airline error. Sandy Valdivieso and her husband Triet Vo, 39, told the Los Angeles Times that they didn't think anything was amiss when they got their Turkish Airlines boarding passes for their flights from Los Angeles to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Their passes had them going from LAX, the airport code for Los Angeles International Airport, to IST, Istanbul, to… (www.usatoday.com) More...
The $6,200,000,000 redesign of the F-35B has borne fruit with the first vertical takeoff and landing of the F-35B. Projected unit cost of at least $112M a copy, but nice video, so I guess it's worth it. (www.youtube.com) More...
As a parent of three kids I am very familiar with kids movies, and I honestly don’t mind going to them as long as they are entertaining, which many of them are. But, there is a movie coming out that I would gladly see all by myself, as will most avgeeks out there. Disney’s Planes! (www.aviationguy.com) More...
Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) is displaying a BBJ 3 for the very first time at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) 2013. The interiors look amazing! (www.theaviationwriter.com) More...
In a lonely corner the Sahara Desert, Google Earth shows what looks like a tattoo on the sun-parched sands: a dark graphic blot amid the vast remoteness of Niger's Tenere region. The negative space in the center of the dot forms the shape of a DC-10 jet plane. Four arrows outside the circle point in each direction, like a compass. (www.gadling.com) More...
Entering Terminal 7 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, having arrived a few hours early for my 9:50 p.m. flight to London Heathrow, I headed left for British Airways’ dedicated First and Club World check-in, which was a calming oasis from the hubbub. With no one waiting in the First Class line, I had my boarding pass in seconds. The dedicated security line took about five minutes to get through. Before the flight, I was scheduled to meet a few colleagues in the Concorde Room ... (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) More...
Last week, Etihad Airways celebrated its inaugural flight to Amsterdam, with the airline’s Airbus A330-200 receiving a ceremonial water cannon salute by Dutch fire engines at the Netherlands capital. What’s more, passengers on the flight were presented with wooden tulips as a gift from Schiphol Airport to mark the flight. (www.theaviationwriter.com) More...
Lockheed Martin just completed the latest high angle of attack test series. It was a complete success, as this video shows. The video footage is spectacular, especially that unreal first shot... (gizmodo.com) More...
"US Marine Hornet flown to a successful barricade arrestment aboard the USS Nimitz on or about October 24th, 1997 due to nose landing gear hung in the "up" position. Captain Scott Slater was the Marine aviator flying the jet. This was the first attempted barricade arrestment of an F/A-18 in Naval history. Captain Slater's fuel state at time of landing was excessively low. Credit for the successful landing goes to both pilot and the ship's crew for endless hours of training and… (www.youtube.com) More...
A Brazilian pop star who calls himself Latino has put TAM Airlines in the hot seat after he was allegedly invited to sit in the captain's chair during a cross-country flight from Recife to Rio de Janeiro. Pictures of the singer in the cockpit of an Airbus A320-200 were circulated on Instagram and posted to the musician's website the day after the incident, but were later removed. (www.gadling.com) More...
The top airport official in New York will step down this summer, leaving behind a unique legacy in the USA's biggest aviation market. Susan Baer in 2009 became the first woman ever named to the high-profile Director of Aviation position at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In that role, Baer runs a system that includes New York's biggest airports — LaGuardia, JFK and Newark Liberty — as well as the reliever Stewart International Airport about 70 miles north of the city and the… (www.usatoday.com) More...
Southwest Airlines announced Monday that new service between Houston Hobby and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will begin Aug. 4. (www.examiner.com) More...
Finding a suitable runway to launch your multibillion dollar fighter jet from isn't always as easy as it sounds. That's why the F-35B Lightning II is designed to with the ability to both take off and land without ever needing to taxi. Here's the first look at its vertical launch. (gizmodo.com) More...
HOUSTON - For the first time since January, United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are returning after being grounded for four months by the federal government because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. (www.click2houston.com) More...
A dispute between a frequent flier and an airline is heading to the Supreme Court. The court announced Monday it would hear the case called Northwest Airlines vs. Ginsburg, which is basically about what justifies an airline dropping a traveler from its frequent-flier program. The airline revoked Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg's membership in the WorldPerks Platinum Elite program in June 2008. He had complained 24 times in eight months about Northwest's service and sought "compensation over and… (www.usatoday.com) More...
"The budget airline Ryanair reported a 13 percent increase in annual profit on Monday, as Europe’s protracted economic downturn continued to drive air passengers to search for the lowest possible fares." (www.nytimes.com) More...
Austrian Airlines has begun five-times-weekly non-stop service between Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Vienna International Airport, the first flight operating on May 17. (www.airlinesanddestinations.com) More...
pilot who landed on a road in Cottonwood, AZ, has been cited for flying without a proper airman certificate in an airplane that was not airworthy, according to local authorities. (www.aero-news.net) More...
American Airlines has extended preferential boarding to customers flying with small or no carry-on bags. Beginning today, the carrier says customers not needing to stow a bag in its overhead storage bins will be able to board between the Group 1 and Group 2 boarding queues. American gives boarding priority to its first-class and elite-level fliers before moving on to Groups 1 through 4. (www.usatoday.com) More...
As you enter JetBlue's old brick office building in between a New York police station and a run-down train station in a not-so-upscale part of Queens, it is difficult to imagine the inside could offer much more than any modern office. But here is where the experience belies the expectation. The office floors resemble an airport, with “runways” (corridors) and “galleys” (break areas). Signage and design look like they could be in use today by Pan Am if New York's former hometown airline was still… (www.aviationweek.com) More...
Southwest Airlines is launching daily service between Houston Hobby Airport and Washington Reagan National Airport on August 4. (www.airlinesanddestinations.com) More...
Sharp differences in opinion emerged in the Tanzanian parliament this week when the Minister for Transport, Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe, moved his ministry’s budget for the financial year 2013/14. When touching on the budget (www.eturbonews.com) More...
Boeing has revealed a new option is under consideration to develop a business jet version of the 737 Max with 7,000nm (13,000km) range. (www.flightglobal.com) More...
Oklahoma's airport, Will Rogers International Airport, has also suffered damage from yesterday's massive EF-4 tornado. The airport is located just 1.5 miles from some of areas that were completely destroyed by the tornado. The death toll as risen to 90... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) More...
Southwest Airlines announced it will launch new service between Houston and Washington, D.C. on August 4, 2013. Initially, the airline will operate one daily flight to and from the cities... (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) More...
Amtrak said it plans to resume regularly scheduled rail service between New York and Boston on Wednesday. Service was suspended following a derailment involving Metro-North Railroad trains near Bridgeport, Connecticut on May 17. No substantial increase in traffic was reported at the area's airports, where Amtrak competes with shuttles operated by Delta and US Airways. (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) More...
Your description or brief synopsis here . . .The public will get its first look at Boeing Business Jets' (BBJ) BBJ 3 at the 2013 European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The airplane, based on the 737-900ER, was outfitted with its custom VIP interiors at Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland (www.aero-news.net) More...
Here’s a story for Boeing 777 fans! Philippine Airlines (PAL) has taken delivery of its fifth Boeing 777-300ER, bringing the national carrier’s total fleet count to a respectable 45. The new aircraft, which arrived from Seattle, will complement PAL’s route expansion in Asia, Australia and the Middle East. (www.theaviationwriter.com) More...
Bird Has Its Wings Clipped For Its Own Safety Swans mate for life, and scientists believe losing a mate can be very difficult for the birds. (www.aero-news.net) More...
Minister Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister of Tourism and Culture, met Mr. Akbar Al-Bakar, the CEO of Qatar Airways, at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) Qatar Airways stand when he was in Dubai for the 2013 ATM tourism trade fair (www.eturbonews.com) More...
A 41-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting at an airplane ... a federal offence. (www.aero-news.net) More...
