Sure Greece hasn’t had and easy time managing their finances of late, but that doesn’t make it any less beautiful of a place to go on a round the world ticket, nor does it mean the airline industry has written it off. On the contrary. Over the course of the last month two brand spanking [...]
Airlines have a bad habit of being unstoppable forces, cruising to their immutable destiny completely powerless to change course even if a financial need or other potentially catastrophic event might warrant it – like some flying Titanic, they have no ability to get out of the way of the proverbial oncoming iceberg. Considering this, I [...]
The Bay Area’s own Silicon Valley is getting a unique honor next year. Beginning on April 1, 2012, All Nippon Airlines (aka, ANA) will be flying a couple of their shiny new Boeing 787s direct from Tokyo into San Jose International Airport, in San Jose, California. The reason for the new flight is probably to [...]
Emirates, the Middle East’s largest airline, announced plans last week to further dominate the world map by adding Seattle, Washington to their destination list. The daily flights will commence March 1st, 2012. Emirates already flies to two other west-coast destinations, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will use the same equipment to do so, the [...]
Just this morning the newest chapter in aviation history was written in Everett, Washington as ANA’s 787 Dreamliner alit the tarmac in route to Haneda, Japan. I’ve written about the 787 a few times here, because I’m a bit of an #avgeek, probably at the expense of a few of the fans of this blog, [...]
As a huge fan of the underdog, I’m enamored by what Precision Air has done in their 12 years of operations. It went from a ragtag fleet of crop duster planes to being the largest airline in Tanzania and the first in the country to pass the IATA Operational Safety Audit, which may not seem [...]
On July 15th Lufthansa became the world’s first airline to use biofuels on a regularly scheduled commercial flight, and plan on continuing to do so over a six month trial period. The biofuel in question is a mix of jatropha, camelina crops and animal fats made by a Finnish energy company called Neste Oil. The [...]
If Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner is anything like what we can expect from the next generation of aviation, we can certainly call ourselves a lucky bunch. And ANA (All Nippon Airways) snagged the spot to be the first of a series of airlines to launch it into service. They’ve also given us a virtual tour [...]
Oh how we love to be vindicated. Yesterday, Skytrax, the most trusted and respected airline rankings website, released their yearly winner of the ranking poll, and it turns out the big winners are all airlines that regularly appear on AirTreks customer’s itineraries. Middle eastern carrier, Qatar Airways, has seized the top of the list this [...]
Yesterday was a big day for a certain international airport in San Francisco as it made the leap from boy to man, receiving its first daily Airbus A380 flight. At 11:51am, and decked out in Lufthansa’s traditional white, yellow and royal blue livery, the plane touched down after a picture perfect approach to SFO’s 28R [...]
