Crossfleeting? It's the point where fleets of different airlines start to mix and mingle. As the merger of American Airlines and US Airways continues apace, the fleets of the two airline will start to intermingle, with US Airways planes flying AA flights, and vice versa. So, what's going over to where? US Airways aircraft will operate American Airlines services from the 1st … [Read more...]
Air France to offer SeatPlus on Short and Medium Haul Routes
SeatPlus is Air France's extra legroom/comfort product, giving 10cm or 4" of extra legroom during flights. So far, it's been available on Air France Long Haul flights. However, it's now available on Short Haul and Medium Haul flights too, with SeatPlus mainly targeting exit row seats. This includes flights from Paris to as far as Israel and North Africa. Air France Airbus … [Read more...]
Singapore Airlines prepares A380s to India
After spending a lot of time dealing with the regulatory oversights needed, thep first Airbus A380 operator is to head to Mumbai and Delhi And its Singapore Airlines leading front and centre with services between India and Singapore. Singapore Airlines A380 taxing - Image GhettoIFE The timetable for services looks like below: Singapore – Delhi SQ402 DEPART SIN 02:35 … [Read more...]
MH370: The Hunt for the Black Boxes as pings received
Black Boxes provide a useful hint to what went on during a flight - especially in the case of a disaster. Flight data recorder - Image Honeywell Aerospace It's important to remember that there are two black boxes aboard a plane (painted orange, so they can be found in dark and murky conditions). The Cockpit Voice Recorder - The Voice Recorder can record up to 2 hours of … [Read more...]
Gogo looks towards high speed airborn Internet access
With a lot of people shifting towards using in-flight WiFi/Internet services, the demand for bandwidth and speed becomes more important. Gogo announced a new service today called 2Ku - a Wifi service aimed both at International services as well as US Domestic services, operating over Air to Satellite connections (as opposed to Gogo's usual Satellite to Air to Ground … [Read more...]
Airbus release interior pictures of the upcoming A350
Whilst airlines continue to refit older aircraft, Airbus is forging ahead with the Airbus A350 project, release a lot of pretty pictures of the first A350 that has been fitted with a cabin (as opposed to test equipment). MSN002 is the first Airbus A350 aircraft to have a passenger cabin fitted. Lets take a look at the pictures: Inside the test cabins - testing the load, … [Read more...]
American Airlines introduce its new Boeing 777-200 seating
American Airlines today introduced its new Boeing 777-200 seating today. Lets have a look at the press photos to see what is in our future. Firstly, the plane will go from a Three-Class Product to a Two Class Product - in effect jettisoning First Class for more business class seats. There will be 45 Business Class Full flat seats installed. The seats will each have direct … [Read more...]
Airplane Art Extra – Air New Zealand Boeing 787-9
It's ticking over into Monday, but that means we can have a bit more Airplane Art. As the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner testing continues, the launch customer has had its first plane painted up. The launch customer being Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand's design may just involve the colours Black and White, but it is certainly striking, with the New Zealand fern striking out in … [Read more...]
Airplane Art – Air Berlin Airbus A330
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane art. This week, loading up in a cold Chicago winter is an Air Berlin Airbus A330-200 at O'Hare Terminal 3, loading up for its return flight back to Berlin Tegel Airport. The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for your desktops! More airplane art next … [Read more...]
Twitter User? Check your settings… #privacymatters
Let me start with off with the obvious - I love using Twitter. Apart from connecting with airlines, it allows me to keep up to date with incidents, as well has off-ball conversations (Because we talk about things that matter... like Kale, Coffee Wine, BMI, The Aer Lingus Buy on Board breakfast - the list goes on and on). Recently, Twitter rolled out an update to their iOS, … [Read more...]
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