Cathay Pacific - in a sign of market confidence - is preparing to upgrade its two of its North American routes. Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300ER at Hong Kong International - Image, Economy Class and Beyond First up is the Boston operation. The service currently four days a week - this will be uprated to a daily service, operating against the following timetable: CX812 … [Read more...]
Qatar Airways Airbus A350s – to Philadelphia and beyond….
Qatar Airways have been working with their Airbus A350s as they shuttle passengers back and forth between Doha and Frankfurt. Well, it seems the true use of these new aircraft is coming to the fore as they announce new routes for the Airbus A350 - and all three routes will be to the United States of America. Qatar Airways Airbus A350 - Image, Airbus. So here's the list of … [Read more...]
Virgin Atlantic take delivery of their first Dreamliner
With the launch of the new blog, it's time to tread some familiar news territory. On Sunday, Virgin Atlantic took delivery of their first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner into their fleet. The first of the Boeing 787-9's - "Birthday Girl" arrived into the fleet at London Heathrow Airport. Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 "Birthday Girl" - Image, Virgin Atlantic via Twitter This Boeing … [Read more...]
Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9s operation plans
Earlier this week, Virgin Atlantic unveiled their first operations for their upcoming Boeing 787-9 aircraft - with the London-Boston route being earmarked as the first operation. Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9, Image - Virgin Atlantic. Well, Airlineroute has revealed the dates. Lets take a look in detail. London Heathrow to Boston remains the launch route, with VS11/12 … [Read more...]
Emirates to upscale Dubai to Boston route
Some routes have natural growth when presented to them. This can be by frequency (laying on more services) or by using a larger capacity aircraft. Emirates recently launched its Dubai to Boston route - about three months ago. Well, it's taking that route and scaling it up further as the equipment used will switch from the current Boeing 777-200LR (the long-range 777) to the … [Read more...]
Emirates to launch a service to Boston
Emirates will be launching its 8th US destination as commences a service to Boston next year. The planned timetable is below: EK237 DEPART DXB 09:45 ARRIVE BOS 15:15 EK238 DEPART BOS 22:55 ARRIVE DXB 19:10+1 Commences: 10th March 2014 Operates Daily Booked Equipment: Boeing 777-200LR Emirates Boeing 777-200LR product will feature on this plane, offering: 8 First … [Read more...]
JAL 787 Fire incident at Boston – More trouble for the Dreamliner
It seems the 787's are starting to run into real trouble, as a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 operating a Tokyo-Narita to Boston service has suffered an a fire after landing at Boston. It seems that a battery in the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) had overheated, causing the combustion. No passengers or crew were aboard the plane at this this point when the fire occurred. Carol … [Read more...]
Trip Report – Gold Run – Mr Kevincm goes to Washington with EI and US
Welcome to Gold Run - Mr Kevincm goes to Washington with EI and US Airways. Again - this trip report is a "republished" report from FlyerTalk.com (it's original home), and in the spirit of GhettoIFE (where this trip actually originated the term), I've gone back over this Trip Trip report, tidying it up, cleaning it, correcting some spellings - and adding new photos … [Read more...]
