Some exit rows do recline
I had an interesting series of conversations on my flight down to Florida last weekend, all centered around whether the exit row seat I was...
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A quarter inch = 2500+ cancellations
The details are trickling out on the AA re-grounding of their MD-80 aircraft, and it looks like a quarter of an inch is the cause...
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More nightmares for Boeing’s Dreamliner
Boeing announced another six month delay on the Dreamliner (aka 787) today. The press conference is scheduled for about an hour from now, but the...
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AA’s Mad Dogs back on the ground
Less than a month after grounding all their MD-80 planes to ensure compliance with FAA-mandated inspections, American Airlines is grounding all their MD-80 planes to...
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The 777 engine issues continue
This time it was a Continental flight, from Tel Aviv to Newark, and it doesn’t seem at all related to the other engine or 777...
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More planes grounded for FAA inspections
This time, it is United Airlines and the plane type in question is the Boeing 777. UA has grounded their entire fleet of 777s as...
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The Skies are Open!
The first flights operating under the recently negotiated Open Skies treaty between the EEC and the United States landed in England this morning, including a...
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Delta joins the MD groundings
Following on AA’s need to ground and inspect their MD80s yesterday, Delta announced that they were performing a similar set of checks, and similarly taking...
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AA grounds (some of) the Mad Dog(s)
This just in… American Airlines has reportedly grounded all their MD-80 airplanes. The grounding was ordered to give the carrier time to follow up on...
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Another update on in-flight broadband
Aircell, one of a handful of providers competing to provide in-flight broadband access to airlines and their passengers, has announced that they expect to have...