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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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