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Riyadh Air to begin flights towards certification in September 2024  

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In addition to flight crew, the carrier has also been busy recruiting cabin crew members and has recently inducted its third intake of flight attendant recruits, according to Douglas. It’s all about the excitement of a start-up.” 2024, the airline’s order for narrowbody jets should be done “within the next weeks”.

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Emirates entices pilots with improved benefits, higher salaries and better perks

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Accelerated Command Programme for Boeing 777s Emirates has now extended its Accelerated Command Programme (ACP) to its fleet of Boeing 777s – which so far was reserved for its signature A380 aircraft. This is an opportunity for captains flying narrow-body aircraft to graduate to wide-body on Emirates’ fast track promotion program.

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“Passengers are not mere numbers to us”: interview with Beond CEO Tero Taskila 

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A few years ago, while working for one of the major aircraft makers, Beond’s co-founder Max Nilov realized that the arrival of a new generation of longer-range narrow-body aircraft would open up opportunities for the development of new business models. The other thing we have is our cabin crew.

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Scooting Off To Penang On The Airline's A321NEO

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

My last flight experience with this airline was before the merger of Scoot and Tigerair, so at that time Scoot was only operating the wide-body, the Boeing 777-200ER and then followed by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 7 years later, I would fly with Scoot, this time on the airline's new A321NEO, one of my favourite narrow-body aircraft.

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My Tribute to Vistara Part 2: Flying Vistara's Airbus A321neo From New Delhi To Singapore

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Unlike the A320neo, this aircraft is configured with IFE screen entertainment for every seat and lie-flat bed for the business class cabin and this product is familar to me as I had experienced it before with Copa Airlines and that flight was also a long flight for a narrow-body, about 23 minutes longer than this flight (5 hours 37 mins).

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Flying with TAP Air Portugal From Lisbon to London Heathrow

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

About 40 minutes on the aircraft, we were finally on our way, no updates from the Captain until later part of the flight. Cabin crew came around to do the BOB (Buy On Board) service and this time, we noticed someone ordering water and wasn't charged so we did the same.

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Top 10 Economy Class Flight Experience for 2023

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Before EVA Air introduced the 3-4-3 configured 777 into the fleet, this has to be one of the best Economy Class seats installed on the 777 and fortunately for us, the Taiwanese airline didn't re-configured the 3-3-3 configured aircraft to the 3-4-3 as there is a nightmare for both the cabin crew and the passengers especially on long haul flights.