A light aircraft, believed to be a Piper Cherokee, crashed on the runway at Caernarfon Airport at 11:26 BST today. One dead and two injured. (www.walesonline.co.uk) More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
t's one of those things you might think about as the front door to your house or a hotel room door closes and locks ... can I get back in? But it's probably not the first thing that the captain of an airliner should have to be concerned about. There's somebody else in the cockpit. (www.aero-news.net) 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...
The U.S. Navy is searching for a company capable of constructing a hangar for their E-6B Mercury aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. (www.examiner.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...
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...
"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...
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...
Jetstar will take delivery of its first Boeing 787 towards the end of September, with two more to follow by year's end, with Honolulu, Phuket and Tokyo confirmed as destinations for the low-cost carriers' Dreamliner network. (www.ausbt.com.au) 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...
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...
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...
Boeing has delivered a 777-300ER extended range plane to Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), marking the latest milestone in its longstanding relationship with the airline and the kingdom. (www.eturbonews.com) More...
Southwest Airlines is launching daily service between Houston Hobby Airport and Washington Reagan National Airport on August 4. (www.airlinesanddestinations.com) More...
Proflight Zambia welcomed an unusual passenger on board its aircraft last week in the form of Douglina, a 120 kg hippo calf. (www.eturbonews.com) More...
The derailment of two Metro-North Railroad commuter trains on Friday will continue to have a dramatic effect on rail service for Amtrak and the Metro-North commuter line in the nation’s busiest rail corridor well into the coming week. Amtrak service is suspended between New York City and New Haven,... (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.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...
Take a look at the video. This is what the business person what in a business class seat. http://apibestinclass.com/what-airline-has-the-best-seat-in-business-class-we-found-it-sq-singapore-air-apibestinclass-business-class-seat/ 2013 award winner. (apibestinclass.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...
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...
Frontier Airlines announced it has launched new daily service between Denver and Cincinnati, as well as three times a week service between Denver and both Eugene, Oregon and Fresno/Yosemite, California. Flights between Denver and Cincinnati operate... (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com) More...
This May marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most famous raids of World War II. The Dambuster Raid of 1943 was a pivotal move for the allies and an event that will not be forgotten. On May 17th 133 hand-picked troops, which included 30 Canadians, dropped bouncing bombs on German hydro dams, targeting the industrial sector. The Dambuster was a big move that would turn the tide of the war but it came with a big price. 8 of the 19 Lancaster planes did not return from the mission and 53… (globalnews.ca) More...
From Youtube: "Three high definition cameras were mounted to my Beechcraft Bonanza when the engine quit on takeoff from Fairbanks Alaska on July 26th 2012, One was pointed forward, one to the right side, and one to the rear. All three cameras caught the crash as it happened in HD. Both people on board survived with only minor injuries, but the airplane didn't." (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...
