If there’s one place that is incredibly hard to get on Earth, it is Antarctica. In fact, flying, for 6 months out of the years is near impossible. But soon, there will be a rare flight there, in the heart of winter.The Washington Post has a great article on a mission of two de Havilland…
Introduction to Flying the Cycle A tale of Many Lounges 1 Euro-Business and 1 Economy Flight 3 business class flights 3 first class flights 3 hotel stays (1 SPG in Milan, Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro, Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport) — Which included varying arrival experiences I just got back from a spending my Memorial Day Weekend…
Value Alliance is a new alliance, but its not what you are expecting. Business Traveller Reports that the new Airline Alliance, Value Alliance – is comprised of: “Cebu Pacific, Jeju Air, Nok, NokScoot, Scoot, Tigerair Singapore, Tigerair Australia and Vanilla Air, and allows customers to book flights and ancillary services offered by any partner carrier from…
Iron Maiden’s Ed Force One 747-400 visited Boeing recently, and they put together a pretty cool video that you can get to by navigating here, since I can’t figure out how to embed Boeing’s video.I’m not sure if the visit to Boeing had anything to do with a minor incident that occurred down in Chile a few…
The Daily Mail reports a plan to do something crazy. To do something perhaps even more crazy than what Solar Impulse set out to do. Fly to the edge of space! Goal: To Fly to the Edge of SpaceThe Perlan Project, supported previously by pioneer Steve Fossett, before his untimely passing, and now supported by Airbus,…
This past weekend, I had the chance to travel out to Las Vegas to attend the Freddie Awards. Its my favorite event to attend each year, and I’m truly appreciative to have the chance. I thought I’d share some observations of some of the award winners, as it seemed like this year there were some…
Business Traveller reports that Singapore Airlines and Air France executives recently met to discuss a partnership. The article cites logical benefits of a partnership means an opportunity to leverage each airlines route network through code-shares, and various other reciprocities like lounges. Why would Singapore Airlines and Air France Partner? Its interesting that the argument for…
Qatar Airways has been having an awful lot of fun with this Atlanta route. I won’t go into the crazy things Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker has said, but lets just say he doesn’t seem to like Delta Airlines. In fact, I gave up writing about the whole US3 vs. ME3 last year.Today Qatar’s latest…
Much like United celebrated a few weeks ago, American Airlines is celebrating 90 years of Aviation, tracing their history back to Charles Lindbergh’s transportation of a mailbag from Chicago to St. Louis, flying for Robertson Aircraft Corporation. American traces its heritage back to that flight by Lindbergh on 15 April 1926.American also put together a…
April 6, 1926 marked the beginning of United Airlines’ with a Varney Air Lines airmail flight from Pasco, Washington to Boise Idaho. That was 90 years ago, and what United calls it’s first aviation first.United released a press release this morning, to celebrate the airlines 90th birthday, and highlight many of the airlines aviation innovations.…