One Mile at a Time

MARCH 25, 2025

Should you put spending on your American Airlines credit card? Long story short, you earn one Loyalty Point per dollar spent on an eligible co-branded Barclays or Citi American Airlines credit card. Credit card spending counts toward AAdvantage elite status Which American Airlines credit cards earn Loyalty Points?

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 29, 2024

Just over a week ago, American Airlines was on the cusp of rolling out its new “preferred agency” program that would yank mileage-earning capability away from all bookings at travel agencies that hadn’t adopted American’s preferred “modern retailing” strategy for selling tickets.

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Cranky Flier

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

AA AAdds Five American Airlines announced five new long-haul, international routes to debut next summer from four of its hubs with all five new routes to operate daily. Since the incident, the airline inspected its entire fleet of A350 aircraft — 48 in all — and discovered 15 had faulty parts that created a potential danger.

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Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The ice finally disappeared altogether as we descended into clear skies and above freezing air on our approach to Kirksville. All in all, the weather looked perfect for my very first cross country where I would be in actual instrument conditions for the entire flight, including the approach. How can this be?

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Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

After the war, many surplus aircraft were repurposed for civilian use in business aviation, regional airlines, and bush operations. After the war, many surplus aircraft were repurposed for civilian use in regional airline operations. About four years earlier, I was a first officer on a Pilgrim Airlines Twin Otter.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 27, 2025

Its an unusual year for me when it comes to airline elite status , so in this post, I want to share the strategy that Im pursuing, since one thing is very different than usual for me this year Im working my way up the AAdvantage elite ranks! Theres a quirk to the card, though, when it comes to authorized user rewards.

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One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In this post I wanted to take a look at how I’d go about deciding which card to use for a large purchase, so that you can hopefully at least come up with an approach that works for you. This can either be for spending any amount, or there are certain threshold bonuses.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

Western Airlines flying over Frankfurt International. Halverson, became famously known as the “Candy Bomber” because he began the practice of dropping sweets on tiny parachutes fashioned from handkerchiefs to the children in West Berlin as his cargo plane approached touchdown in the besieged city back in 1948.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With air traffic continuing to soar in the post-pandemic era, airlines worldwide have embarked on recruiting the thousands of pilots needed to operate the multitude of new aircraft set to enter service during the coming years. Their experience is immeasurable in terms of what they can bring to the program and students.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land. It is a precision approach aid based on two radio beams. This is most likely thanks to the ILS.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

My ride: SX-NEC in the airline's new livery Introduction Flying with Aegean Airlines has been in my mind for a while and when the chance presented itself, I decided to go for it. However I would be flying Economy Class so will I be impressed with the airline? Welcome to my 2024 New Year trip report! Read on to find out.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you are lucky, you might fly one of the airline's aircraft painted in the Pokemon special livery. As I had already flown with Starflyer and Peach, I looked the my other options and they are Solaseed Air, Jetstar Japan, Sky Airlines, Japan Airlines and it's subsidiaries and ANA. Passenger's pick up point at the ground level.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

Taipei to Hong route has a lot of flights and the airline deploys both 787 series but there are 2 issues, the flight time is too short and also aircraft change happens very frequently so with this route ended up being ruled out, my next option was a flight from Tokyo to Taipei. I suppose the airline rotate these aircraft every few months.

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. It’s nice to have an accurate digital display, especially on a bumpy approach. Procedures may differ on other aircraft and at other airlines. The instrument provides pilots with a surprising amount of information.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway. The approach and touch down were normal. Nearing the end of my tour in the ferry squadron, the airlines were expanding rapidly, converting to jet aircraft and hiring pilots to fly them.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Hyatt Card 2x Points On Airline Tickets The World of Hyatt Credit Card offers 2x points on airline tickets purchased directly from airlines. Again, this isn’t the card I’d use for airline tickets, given that some other cards offer 3-5x points.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Airline Transport Pilot License (ATP): - Represents the highest level of pilot certification. - It is essential for serving as a captain in airline operations. Age Requirements for an Airline Transport Pilot License (ATP) The ATP license is the most demanding and requires the highest level of experience.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Airline and Company Policies Individual airlines and flight departments often have specific policies regarding the use of personal electronic devices during flight operations. Many commercial airlines prohibit pilots from using personal entertainment devices, including music players, to ensure maximum safety and concentration.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It was hoped that this approach would avoid another overspill situation as previously encountered at Le Bourget and Orly. The airport handled its first commercial flight five days later, on March 13, 1974, in the form of a Boeing 747 operated by US airline, Trans World Airways (TWA) from New York-JFK Airport.

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Ask Captain Lim

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-312(ER) Photo credit: byeangel ( [link] ) How many airliners would have run out of fuel if it weren’t for the “final reserve fuel” as required by law? The fuel planning policies by airlines are there for ensuring the safety of each flight.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

An airline pilot was incapacitated immediately upon takeoff of an airliner from the airport. As the graphs obtained directly from the watches suggest, prior to any flight, there is a rise in the heart rate above the underlying “resting” threshold. And yet it was! followed swiftly. The news was rather sad.

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Aerotime

MARCH 17, 2025

The airport has remained shut since, although several airlines have already stated that they would be willing to reintroduce services to the airport as and when it reopens to commercial operations. “So far in 2025, airline representatives have reached out to us, conducted their audits, and are analyzing the situation.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

Consider the Cherokee pilot in Wisconsin who approached too fast: “The pilot reported that during the landing at the destination airport, the airplane floated down the runway, landed long, and did not slow as expected. Neither one is good. Too much speed is almost as bad as too little.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

Fate is STILL the hunter Air Facts Journal In 1961, veteran airline captain, Ernest K. This truism was learned one fateful day when I was employed by Skyway Airlines as a 25-year-old Beech 18 captain. Skyway’s Beech 18’s were configured for commuter airline operations with seats in the cabin for nine passengers and a crew of two.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. Numbers for 2024 are likely to be similar, given what we already know as we approach the end of the year.

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NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Alliance – An arrangement between a group of airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Codeshare – a marketing arrangement in which an airline places its designator code on a flight operated by another airline , and sells tickets for that flight. AFFF – Aqueous Film-Forming Foam.

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One Mile at a Time

MARCH 1, 2025

Its a new elite year at American AAdvantage, so in this post I want to provide an updated guide to American Airlines Loyalty Points program. Flying is one of the many ways to earn Loyalty Points How to earn Loyalty Points for flying American Airlines The most popular way to earn Loyalty Points is by flying with American Airlines.

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Cranky Flier

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But I talked to Mark Nasr, Air Canada’s EVP of Marketing and Digital, back in April 2023 about the airline’s kinder/gentler move into the space. And so I’m curious if you’re seeing there’s sort of a minimum threshold of where you need to be. And is that why the GDS integration was delayed? Mark: Exactly.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

As he approached the herd, with the intention of driving the cattle into the corral, the bull departed and headed toward an area covered with heavy mesquite brush. Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. Im roped in, Sam. Thats FA tenacity.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 28, 2024

The day I had to make a short field landing in a B757 Air Facts Journal During the winter of 2012, I was the captain on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco (SFO) to Denver (DEN) flying a Boeing 757. From the threshold to taxiway D5 gave me a little over 5,000 feet to land and stop. It was now time for some risk management.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction What a way to celebrate my first ever Indian domestic flight experience by flying on the airline's brand new Airbus A350-900. Let's say I didn't have the best first impression of this airline and I believe some of you have read about the negative reviews of the airline in almost all aspects of air travel with this airline.

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While we’ll see if anything comes of this, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has just opened a commenting period for proposed rulemaking, whereby airlines would be required to pay passengers cash compensation in the event that flights are delayed or canceled, just as we see in the European Union. taxpayers — kept U.S.

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