Avgeeks throughout the twittersphere have offered photos and remembrance for US Airways “Cactus” Callsign. Why is today the last day for Cactus? Because its been widely reported that American Airlines anticipates getting a Single Operating Certificate on 8 April. With that, all American Airlines planes — whether former US Airways or American Airlines) will sport…
It’s a well known fact that #Avgeeks can develop rather…strange collections over time. Some collect models of the airplanes they live on. Others like to collect relics from past flights. But how about capturing a piece of an airline seat? No, I’m not talking about buying airline seats (as if you would really want to…
Last night, in the midst of Notre Dame shutting out Michigan, a photo of a potential new Southwest Livery was leaked. Airline Reporter covered it, along with Frontier’s new livery.The leaked livery isn’t a huge change.By my eye, its a bit brighter, but really, the biggest change is the location and font of “Southwest”. Take…
H/T View from the WingOn an idle Saturday, in between watching Star Trek: The Final Frontier and waiting to watch Notre Dame (hopefully) beat Michigan, I happened to see a post from Gary and View from the Wing on the secrets of airport codes. I thought I’d offer some additional thoughts on decrypting airport codes.I’ve…
Since March, the travel community has been watching the proceedings around H.R. 4156, better known as The Transparent Airfares Act of 2014. In what some are calling a sneaky move, the bill was placed on the suspension calendar earlier in July. And on Monday, July 28, the House of Representatives passed the Transparent Airfares Act by…
Like many avgeeks, I was glued to YouTube for a bit today watching some of the great flight displays from Farnborough Airshow.. There was some news out of the day as well, so I thought I’d offer a few observations and some of the best stuff I’ve seen.News Airbus announced it will offer A330neo (new engine…
The Fifth Freedom of the Air is quite in vogue as of late – especially with the big three Gulf Carriers. Simply put, fifth freedom rights allow an air carrier to carry passengers from one’s own country A, to country B, and onward to country C, with the permission to sell tickets for each leg.…
Sometimes, you see a random tweet and figure – why not throw your hat in the ring.Well this tweet was exactly that, and I did, not thinking that I had a snowballs chance, because, who wouldn’t jump at this opportunity!? And as it turns out, Friday, 6 June, I got the e-mail – I made…