FlightAware is proud to announce pre-arrival flight alerts, the latest FlightAware.com Flight Alert feature for passengers, pilots, airport operators, or anyone tracking a flight. If you've setup arrival alerts on any flight (airline or private), FlightAware will now automatically notify you when the flight is 45 minutes prior to landing. (flightaware.com) More...
Live from the 737's Flight Deck, and a big thanks to my collegues. Camera : Sony HX9v (compact camera), 1080p 50i rendering Software : Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 11 (www.youtube.com) More...
For much of the past month a fight has been raging in news reports and over the Internet about the behavior of 14 male Middle Eastern passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles. Were the men terrorists casing the plane for a possible attack, as freelance journalist Annie Jacobsen suspected in a long article about the incident? Or were they, as the men said and federal investigators later concluded, a Syrian band on their way to a gig? (www.time.com) More...
Business travelers on the Delta Shuttle between Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., can now work to their hearts’ content on every flight. Delta Air Lines has installed Wi-Fi on the jets that fly its East Coast Shuttle routes, as well as between New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Delta has the largest wired fleet in the world, according to the airline, making up nearly half of the world’s Wi-Fi equipped planes. By this summer, more than 800 Delta… (www.boston.com) More...
FRANKFURT, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Strikes at Frankfurt airport, Germany's largest, will continue until the weekend, the GdF union, resulting in more flight cancellations and delays. Just under 200 apron control workers, such as those who guide aircraft to parking places, are striking over a pay dispute with Fraport, which runs the airport. German carrier Lufthansa has already cancelled hundreds of flights a day because of the walkouts, which started last Thursday. The latest walkout started at 0400… (www.reuters.com) More...
Boeing said around 55 of its flagship 787 Dreamliners "have the potential" to develop a fuselage shimming problem, but reiterated that the fault was being fixed. Shims are used to fill in space between parts and industry publication Flightglobal has reported that improperly joined pieces had caused "parts of the aircraft's carbon fibre structure to delaminate". (news.yahoo.com) More...
A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against Citibank in what customers have reported the company lured them in by offering 40,000 frequent-flier miles to open an account but failed to tell them they had to report 2½ cents per mile as income to the IRS. Citibank has been sending 1099 tax forms to customers who received frequent flier (avstop.com) More...
A new amateur video of the 1986 Challenger disaster has surfaced, more than 25 years after the space shuttle broke up mid-flight, killing all seven crew onboard. The footage, revealed on the New Scientist website, is believed to be only the second such video known to exist. It was shot by Bob Karman of Hicksville, New York, whose daughter now works for the magazine. He and his family were on holiday in Florida at the time, and witnessed the tragedy from Orlando airport. On Jan. 28, 1986, the… (www.youtube.com) More...
Boeing will conduct the fourth segment of the 787 Dream Tour beginning March 1. Stops will include visits to cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In addition, the Dream Tour airplane, ZA003, will be featured at the FIDAE Air Show in Santiago, Chile, in late March to kick off the fifth segment of the tour. (www.newairplane.com) More...
The days are numbered for the Continental Airlines name, the Houston Chronicle reports. In just about two weeks, parent company United Continental Holdings will begin using only United for nearly all of its interactions with customers. (travel.usatoday.com) More...
Although considered fairly ambitious by most corners of the aviation industry, the architect Lord Norman Foster's plans for a €58 billion airport in the Thames Estuary in London has now reached a step closer to becoming a reality. Located on reclaimed marshland on the Isle of Grain in Kent, the new 24-hour hub, would be designed to handle 150 million passengers a year – double that of Heathrow – and would cost around €58 billion to build. (www.airport-world.com) More...
PeoplExpress plans to launch service from Pittsburgh making the city its home and is awaiting government approval. This is a revival of the former airline's name from 1981 to 1987 when it was the fifth largest carrier in the U.S. and largest out of Pittsburgh. It is being launched as a no frills LCC airline using routes to places like West Palm Beach and other east coast destinations. (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) More...
An unruly Saudi teen was held down and detained by fellow passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight after he began shouting 'Allah is great' and making references to Osama bin Laden as he swung his fists at a flight attendant who told him he couldn't smoke an electronic cigarette aboard the plane Tuesday. (www.dailymail.co.uk) More...
A single data point does not make a trend, but with London gearing up for the summer Olympics starting in July, there continues to be sufficient travel experiences that raise questions about whether all elements of the air transport sector are ready to handle the rush of activity. (www.aviationweek.com) More...
Kingfisher Airlines (IT) founder and chairman Vijay Mallya vowed to keep the troubled airline operating even as it continues to cancel flights and fails to make numerous scheduled payments. (atwonline.com) More...
"Air rage" assaults and other serious incidents aboard planes appear to be declining but every day, on average, lots of people are denied boarding because of intoxication or arguing with flight attendants. (www.marketwatch.com) More...
