Happy Birthday, B747
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first Boeing 747’s roll off the assembly line. It continues to taunt me to this day, denying me...
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Helicopter service from NYC cut – USH halts flights
US Helicopter, the service that provides connections from Newark and JFK airports to two heliports in Manhattan, has suspended all service, both scheduled and charter. ...
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A serious upgrade in US Air’s business class
It isn’t all that hard to make a huge leap in quality when you’re towards the bottom to begin with. Still, the move that US...
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I really hate the US Senate
Every now and then I really wish that government was as polarized and incompetent as everyone seems to suggest. At least then they wouldn’t be...
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Lufthansa (finally) to take advantage of jetBlue investment
It has been a while now since Lufthansa bought a sizable minority stake in jetBlue. At the time most of the talk was about investing...
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An interesting read of the CO/ExpressJet Rochester Diversion
I’ve avoiding posting on the diversion of CO 2816 thus far mostly because I knew that there was a lot of information out there that...
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Trouble with some of Delta’s Lie Flat seats
Lie-flat seats are all the rage in long-haul business class cabins these days. Pretty much every airline is moving in that direction, though with varying...
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Are capacity cuts really the key?
For the past couple years now, as airlines have teetered on the brink of bankruptcy with more than a couple tipping over, the common refrain...
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Slot swaps galore in New York and Washington, DC
When airports restrict access to their facilities – generally through the use of slot controls – those slots can become incredibly valuable. Access to slots...
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How much Blue would a jetter jet if a jetter could JetBlue?
It seems that jetBlue really wants to find out the answer to that question. They’ve announced a new product this morning – the All-you-can-Jet pass...