Ah. Top Gun. A film that has nothing to do with Southwest Airlines at all. Still - when in doubt, it's to go into the Danger Zone. See figure 1 below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osqq_Yjqcok Welcome to Economy Class and Beyond - Your no-nonsense guide to network news, honest reviews, with in-depth coverage, unique research as well as the humour and madness … [Read more...]
American, United and US Airways (and Alaska) join the party on Personal Electronic Devices
After the early start by both JetBlue and Delta, three other major US Airlines have joined the party on the Gate-to-Gate use of Personal Electronic Devices American Airlines will allow on all mainline flights, with American Eagle flights operated by SkyWest Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines, Republic Airline or Chautauqua Airlines to follow. United is allowing devices to be … [Read more...]
Southwest Airlines launches 737-MAX 7.
Southwest have begun planning for their future fleet as they today are announced as the launch customer of the Boeing 737-MAX 7 series aircraft. Southwest Airlines 737 MAX 7 - Rendering: The Boeing Company The airline will take 30 of the class, converting orders of 30 Boeing 737 NG's to the new aircraft, along with 5 737-800NG aircraft. Southwest were also the launch … [Read more...]
Delta to introduce Boeing 717’s into their fleet
It seems that a deal has been hammered out over the 717's with Delta and Boeing, Southwest Airlines. The agreement is for 88 Boeing 717-200's to be leased from Boeing Capital or subleased from Southwest Airlines, with 3 aircraft a month to be delivered from August 2013. The year-on-year delivery plan looks something like this: 16 to be transferred in 2013 36 to be … [Read more...]
The Kiwi’s throw down the challenge to Southwest….
It seems Air New Zealand is once again out to cause a little mischief with music, rapping, safety videos and of course... body paint. I'll let the cabin crew say their words... A safety video mashup. Oh well. Anything for a bit of fun... So how about it then Southwest? Are you free to roam to New Zealand and play this game? ;) … [Read more...]
Airplane p0rn – SouthWest 737-700
It's that time of the week again - Airplane p0rn. To celebrate the mass rollout of WiFi on SouthWest, it's got to be a classic Canyon Blue SouthWest 737-700 at Philadelphia International Airport (Unit N268WN) Might be more next week - might not... depends on the travels.... … [Read more...]
The Friday News Roundup
It's Friday again, so it must be time for me to look at the news for the week: Ryanair takes its balls away... Ryanair pulls aircraft and services from Manchester - Analysis on here on why O'Liar is talking once again out of his back side. BBC News, GhettoIFE.com Korean Air - Profit! Korean Air posted a net income of 78.5b won ( or about $62.4 million) for Q2/2009 … [Read more...]
The News: A New base, Cuts, Profits causing trouble…
Continental: Joins Star Alliance 27th October (Official) Continental have confirmed they are to leave SkyTeam on the 24th October and formally join Star Alliance on the 27th October. Expect trouble if things go wrong - and knowing how other airlines have handled integrations before - trouble isn't fare off. (Continental) Ryanair Opens a new base a Jimmy Savile … [Read more...]
Airline news Roundup
Well it's near the end of the week (and it's been awful here) so lets do some news that might affect you.. or not BA's food Debcale Need I say much more? No signs of climbdown or anything alas. Qatar Wuss out - I mean "reassured by Boeing" over 787 Showing that indeed airlines are slaves to airframe makers sometimes, it seems Qatar are happy with the "reassurance" … [Read more...]
Southwest SW2294 – Update
Jon at Flightblogger has posted his quick analysis of the incident (as well as other news networks picking it up.) In particular - Flight has a very excellent cutaway of where the damage is. The big remaining question is ... what is the cause of this? As the 737-300's get inspected, this will be the one that wants answering... … [Read more...]
