Emirates and Jetmen Dubai put on quite a show in the skies over Dubai. I’m guessing not a lot of people would’ve noticed the two “Jetmen” from the ground, but from the air, it looks truly incredible! Have a look:Truth be told, I never knew such jet packs were being used in such a viable…
Source: EmiratesEmirates is now flying 2 A380’s in United for Wildlife liveries. United for Wildlife focuses on stopping illegal wildlife trade. In the airlines press statement, they state that the goal of flying these liveries is: The beautiful livery, featuring some of the planet’s wildlife threatened by poaching and the illegal wildlife trade, aims to…
Perhaps being down in Australia this week, I’m a bit more aware of non-US centric sports, like, the Melbourne Cup, and the Rugby World Cup (which I think happened in London a couple of days ago).For background, the Rugby World Cup championship ended up being Australia vs. New Zealand. The New Zealand All Blacks are…
Last night, I read an interesting article by the Centre for Aviation (CAPA), about Emirates reaching to their 30 year anniversary. While normally these articles are just interesting to read, but not terribly striking, this one did.The specific part that struck me was this statement: The switch from Dubai International to Dubai World will probably…
Via the Australian Business Traveller, Airbus has announced that the Airbus A350-900LR will have a range of 8,700 miles, which is enough to fly Singapore to New York and LA. It isn’t clear how many cabins the aircraft will have, but it will have something in the range of 170 seats, and Airbus note that…
Earlier today, casually looking through Twitter, I happened to see and retweet a Singapore Airlines A330 that was either kneeling out of respect, or had a rough night at Singapore’s Changi airport. Since you clear security at the gate in Singapore, they’d thought they’d show some deference and kneel for the pax. https://t.co/VfnVkPbTyu— Trevor (@tmount)…
Earlier today (Saturday), Pope Francis received a short tour of the cockpit of his American Airlines 777-200 aircraft, enroute from JFK to PHL. It’s a short video, but, pretty cool none-the-less, considering so few folks get to actually see the cockpit nowadays (let alone in flight).If you’re curious about the route they took, you can…
I wrote about ANA Unveiling the Star Wars livery a while back, calling it perhaps the most awesome livery out there. I stand by that statement. Wandering Aramean wrote about the roll-out, but this morning, @AirlineFlyer posted a video of how the plane was actually painted. Here’s that video below:Overall, I can’t wait to see…
For as long as I can remember, Singapore Airlines had the two longest flights, that being, from Newark, NJ (EWR) to Singapore (SIN), and Los Angeles, CA (LAX) to Singapore.Then after Singapore deemed the A340-500’s that they flew in an all business class configuration to be a money loser, and cancelled the route, Qantas took…
Air Madagascar, the country’s flag carrier is reeling from labor strikes that have gone on for a month so far. The result is that the country of Madagascar–the fourth largest island in the world, mind you–is seeing significant tourism losses, which will be particularly felt during the summer high season.Faced with such a dilemma, the…