SPAIN OCTOBER 3RD Spanish airspace, might be affected by the 12-hour strike planned for October 3. FRANCE OCTOBER 5TH Air France staff have called for a strike to take place on Monday, October 5. Please check with your airline of possible changes, delays or flight cancellations
Could your cell phone cause a plane crash?
Image via Wikipedia If you’re like most occasional or even frequent fliers, you probably don’t take seriously those warnings about shutting off cell phones. But perhaps you should — based on a new report. “We found that the risk posed by these portable devices is higher than previously believed,” said Bill Strauss, who conducted a […]
Did you have a good summer? Alaska Airlines sure did.
Image by quite peculiar via Flickr Passenger traffic at Alaska Airlines soared 9.7% in June, July and August, according to a compilation of monthly data I put together. Alaska boosted its capacity by 6.1% in the three summer months and still managed to fill a higher percentage of its seats. The smallest increase in passenger […]
How To Get Troug Airport Security
Kulula the low-cost South-African Airline
WHAT A PITY KULULA DOESN’T FLY INTERNATIONALLY – WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM IF ONLY FOR THEIR HUMOUR – SO TYPICALLY SOUTH AFRICAN. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight “safety lecture” and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula […]
Virgin America’s inaugural flight San Francisco-Toronto
Image via Wikipedia The pink Champagne at Gate 12 in SFO’s International Terminal was a fitting accompaniment to Virgin America Inc.’s inaugural flight to Toronto on Tuesday. With Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Gavin Newsom leading the huzzahs, the Bay Area’s low-cost airline – the only airline based in California – was making its international […]
American Airlines crashed in Kingston Jamacia Tuesday evening!
Image via Wikipedia About 40 people were injured late Tuesday as an American Airlines plane skidded off the runway and broke in two pices at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica. The American Airlines flight 331, a Boeing 737 that had originated in Washington DC with a stopover in Miami, crashed around […]
Extra flights added because of weekend storm
Image by cliff1066™ via Flickr ATLANTA, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Major air carriers added extra flights on Monday to accommodate passengers whose travel plans were disrupted by a massive weekend storm that dumped as much as two feet of snow on the U.S. Northeast. […]