Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane Art – Virgin America Airbus A319

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It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some Airplane art. This week, it's a rare sight at Dallas Fort Worth - other airlines other than American Airlines -  with a Virgin America Airbus A319 pushing back (named The 1 year old Virgin), with a US Airways Airbus A319 at the gate The image is clickable if you want to see a larger version – and yes you can keep them for … [Read more...]

BA762 Incident: Engine Cowling doors were unlatched.

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The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch has confirmed that the fan cowl doors were left unlatched post maintenance on the plane, that lead to the incident of Flight BA762. During take off, the cowls were lost on both engines, resulting in a punctured a fuel pipe in the right-hand engine - as well as the plane landing with the cowling's gone. The plane returned to … [Read more...]

BA A319 in major incident at Heathrow – ALL SAFE

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A British Airways Airbus A319 (G-EU0E) with flight BA762 from London Heathrow to Oslo suffered apparent engine damage on the right hand engine shortly after takeoff. Image - Sky News After circling, with the aircraft making a success landing back at Heathrow on runway 09L/27R. The flightpath can be seen on FlightAware at … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – EasyJet Airbus A319

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It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art. This week, it's an EasyJet Airbus A319 resting at a clear night at Birmingham Airport, ready for its next turn back to Belfast International 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 week! … [Read more...]

Airplane Art – Air Berlin A319

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It's Sunday again (well Monday here), and it's time for some more Airplane art. This week it's an Air Berlin Airbus A319 lining up on the runway at Zurich International Airport on a very wet morning. 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 week! … [Read more...]

Safety Video Saturday: Air Canada

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It's Saturday again, so it's time to place your chair back straight, your seatbelt on and your luggage stowed in the overhead bin as Air Canada introduce safety aboard their Airbus A319's (replace A319's with any other aircraft in their fleet almost for the same video with different exits and plane graphic) Another safety video again next week! … [Read more...]

Virgin Atlantic to commence UK Domestic services between London and Manchester

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It seems that Virgin Atlantic is preparing to build a short-haul network for feeder traffic after failing to buy BMI with the announcement today that it will commence flying between London Heathrow and Manchester (two of the hubs that Virgin Atlantic operate from). The slots to operate London to Manchester will be from Virgin Atlantic's current allocation of slots - a total … [Read more...]

Farnborough 2012 Day 2 – News Roundup

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Day Two of the Farnborough 2012 has flow - so let's see what big news has hit The big headline of the day goes to Cathay Pacific who have signed for 26 of the re-versioned Airbus A350-1000 - with Cathay ordering 10 on top of the original 16 A350-1000's ordered.  This makes Cathay Pacific the largest planned operator of the A350-1000 which will fly up to 8,400nm with the … [Read more...]

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