Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Kansai International Airport (KIX) near Osaka, Japan has reported a feat that other international airports can only dream of. The airport has not lost a single piece of passenger luggage since it first opened in September 1994, earning itself an unrivaled international reputation for reliability and operational efficiency. As the world’s attention turns towards Osaka in advance of Expo 2025, expectations are rising that international visitors to the event will arrive at one of the world’s best-

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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. Now, that program has been delayed a little more than two months.

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Alaska Air

APRIL 25, 2024

Starting this fall, we’re adding nonstop routes from San Diego and Los Angeles as well as offering our largest Southern California schedule in recent years. The post Alaska Airlines expands presence in Southern California with new routes and increased service to popular West Coast destinations appeared first on Alaska Airlines News.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

For a few years in the mid-1940s, the Douglas Aircraft Company pursued a decidedly unconventional design concept. It would entail multiple powerplants, long drive shafts, and pusher propellers mounted on the extreme aft end of an aircraft. Well-stocked from the war effort with a robust team of engineers and faced with a dwindling number of military contracts, the company tasked a team to investigate and develop the concept.

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Simple Flying

APRIL 30, 2024

Just three days after Air China announced its order for 100 C919 aircraft, on April 29th, China Southern Airlines issued a statement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announcing the signing of a contract with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China ( COMAC ) for 100 C919 aircraft on the same day. The catalog price of the order amounts to US$9.9 billion.

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Airline Geeks

APRIL 29, 2024

Finnair announced on Monday that it will suspend daily flights between Helsinki and Tartu, Estonia for one month due to GPS interference concerns.

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Aerotime

APRIL 30, 2024

On the morning of April 30, 2024, Australian low-cost carrier Bonza announced that it would be suspending all operations with immediate effect. The official reason provided by the company regarding the suspension of flights cited “discussions currently underway regarding the ongoing viability of the business”. “We apologize to our customers who are impacted by this and we’re working as quickly as possible to determine a way forward that ensures there is ongoing competition in the Australian dome

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Alaska Air

APRIL 26, 2024

This World Pilots' Day, meet aspiring Alaska pilot Mohammed Hakeem, and learn what inspired him to get his wings at Ascend Pilot Academy. Plus, get insider tips from remarkable pilots at Alaska Air Group. The post Chart your flight path: Insider tips from aspiring and legendary pilots at Alaska Airlines appeared first on Alaska Airlines News.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 28, 2024

In the past couple of years, Lufthansa sure has made a 180 when it comes to its Airbus A380 plans. A while back, the airline revealed that it would introduce a new business class product on its Airbus A380s, and we now have a sense of what that product may be. Lufthansa sees long term future for A380s At the beginning of the pandemic, Lufthansa grounded its fleet of Airbus A380s , and the intent was that these planes would be retired, and would only reenter service “in the event of an unexpected

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Simple Flying

APRIL 29, 2024

Australian ultra-low-cost airline Bonza has suspended all its flights today as the fledgling carrier and its CEO, Tim Jordan, face a barrage of questions and media scrutiny over its future.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

How do you typically learn of your friends’ most eventful flights? Is it over a cold beverage in a circle of lawn chairs as the sun goes down? Is it through social media or text conversations? Perhaps, it’s through other means, but the point remains the same—aviation is more enjoyable when it’s shared with others. Sam Sessler, a private pilot from Seattle, has created a new way for fellow aviators to share their aerial adventures with one another in a mobile app he created called Han

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Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental operating a scheduled flight from Frankfurt (FRA) to Los Angeles (LAX) has become an unwitting internet sensation following footage of a heavy landing in Los Angeles being released. The video which has so far been watched over 1.6 million times (at the time of writing) was shot on April 23, 2024, as the Lufthansa aircraft completed its 11-hour flight from the German capital.

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 30, 2024

Southwest did not have a good first quarter, and that’s putting it mildly. The airline that used to crow like clockwork every three months about how many consecutive profitable quarters it posted… posted another loss. It really had nothing good to report this quarter at all, BUT… it has a plan to fix things. They say the first step is admitting you have a problem… I’m not going to detail all the numbers.

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Airline Geeks

APRIL 30, 2024

Australian low-cost regional carrier Bonza has canceled all flights after having its aircraft repossessed, stranding thousands of passengers across Australia.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 28, 2024

While I wasn’t initially planning on taking a review trip in the immediate future, this seems like an opportunity that I can’t turn down, given that it has been around seven years in the making… I booked Lufthansa’s new A350 business class Lufthansa is finally launching its Allegris business class in the coming days, as the first A350-900 with the new cabins will be flying between Munich and Vancouver as of the beginning of May (on select frequencies).

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Simple Flying

APRIL 29, 2024

A New York-based attorney whose firm filed a lawsuit against commercial aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing earlier this year was met with a surprise outside his home over the weekend. The lawyer, who reportedly lives in the New York City borough of Queens, says he found the missing emergency slide that detached and fell from a Delta Air Lines 767-300ER on Friday.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Lilium, the manufacturer of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) jet for six passengers plus a pilot, will debut its flagship aircraft to the public for the first time in May. The German firm announced the first public unveiling of its full-scale Lilium Jet will take place at the annual European Aviation Business Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), which runs from May 28-30 in Geneva.

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Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

A 30-year-old man was arrested at Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) after breaching airport security, entering the tarmac and attempting to enter the cargo hold of a Sri Lankan Airlines aircraft. The incident occurred in the afternoon of April 26, 2024 when the man reportedly made his way past airport immigration controls and onto the tarmac.

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 23, 2024

I wrote yesterday about how United had some real struggles filling seats in its Pacific network around the holiday season. But the only comprehensive data I have is load factor information combined with broad unit revenue trends by region as the airline reported in quarterly earnings. Load factor matters, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle.

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Airline Geeks

APRIL 30, 2024

Captain Rosenkranz returned to LA, where he commanded a specially chartered Airbus A330-900neo for his final flight at Delta.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 26, 2024

In late 2023, we saw the launch of Beond Airlines , a fascinating premium airline startup. The airline has now been flying for several months, and quite a bit has changed since launch, so I wanted to take an updated look at what’s going on with this unique airline. The details of Beond Airlines Beond Airlines is an all-business class airline with lofty expansion goals.

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Simple Flying

APRIL 30, 2024

With the great power competition heating up, the United States and China are developing their next-generation stealth strategic bombers. The American B-21 Raider is developing under budget and is now entering low-rate production. At the same time, there are rumblings about China's new Xi'an H-20 stealth bomber about to be unveiled. With these new stealth bombers, the Chinese are hoping to challenge the dominance of the US.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

By Chris Henry During the war in Vietnam, there was an airline that flew some of the most harrowing missions ever taken on by a group of this type, and over hostile territory. Because of this, they gained the title of “World’s Most Shot at Airline”. This airline had more than 30 twin-engine cargo aircraft, two dozen STOL aircraft such as the Helio Courier, more than 30 helicopters, and more than 300 employees.

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Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Japan Airlines announced that it had launched a pilot program in Yokohama City to turn used cooking oil into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on its flights. The airline launched the program in partnership with Yokohama City under the “Fry to Fly” project, which aims to realize a decarbonized society through domestic resource recycling, and is promoting initiatives for the production of SAF by utilizing used cooking oil as its feedstock.

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 16, 2024

American has decided to add a new dot to its route map. The winner is… Provo, Utah. This might sound like it’s coming from left field, but this is exactly the kind of market that American is trying to serve with its small-city strategy. And regardless of whether this is the right strategy to pursue or not, American is the right network airline to serve a market like this.

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World Airline News

APRIL 29, 2024

Austrian Airlines is planning to introduce the new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner into revenue service on May 17. Austrian is acquiring 11 787-9s through 2028. Initially the new type will be introduced on two short-range European routes as a way of the crews getting used to the new airliner. Vienna-Frankfurt and Vienna-Berlin will be the first two routes before the 787 is introduced on transAtlantic routes in June.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 26, 2024

Delta Air Lines has just announced a significant expansion in West Africa this northern summer (southern winter), with both capacity increases and product improvements. This complements Delta flying more premium A350s to South Africa as well, which I wrote about separately. Delta brings back New York to Lagos route As of December 1, 2024, Delta will resume its route between New York (JFK) and Lagos, Nigeria (LOS), which was last served in 2022.

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Simple Flying

APRIL 30, 2024

The US has more Airbus A380 flights than any other country except the UAE (no surprise!) and the UK. Influenced by the US's geographic size, the massive passenger volume, and often premium demand, nine airports see the double-decker quadjet, which is more than any other nation.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered the first two G700s to U.S.-based customers and both are now in service, The deliveries come less than a month after Gulfstream received FAA type and production certification (March 29 and April 8, respectively) for the new, Rolls-Royce Pearl 700-powered G700. The engines have greater than 18,000 pounds of thrust, each.

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Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, 2024, Lufthansa Technik Malta (LTM) announced the completion of its first heavy maintenance check on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The finished C-check on a LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (registered SP-LSC) follows just months after the company announced in late 2023 that LTM would expand its product portfolio to include MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) services on the Boeing widebodied twinjet.

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 18, 2024

Regular readers know that the currently-named Metropolitan Oakland International Airport is a sponsor of the Friday Cranky Weekly Review. It also was the presenting sponsor of this year’s Cranky Network Awards. So when I saw that the airport was proposing to change its name, I decided not to write about it… until San Francisco threatened to sue over the switch.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 1945, it has been a tradition for all primary school children to lay flowers on the graves of the fallen brave soldiers at the Airborne Cemetery in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands in the first weekend of September. They are known as “the flower children” The commemoration is concluded each year with a flypast over this cemetery by a Douglas C-47 or Dakota (as it was known in RAF service).

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 27, 2024

Dutch carrier KLM is changing its uniform policy , and that includes the option of more comfortable footwear. KLM launches sneakers for employees As of May 6, 2024, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will allow employees to wear sneakers as part of their uniform. This includes all frontline staff, from pilots, to flight attendants, to ground agents. Employees will be able to wear their own sneakers (which must meet certain requirements), or they can buy sneakers developed especially for KLM, designed by F

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Simple Flying

APRIL 29, 2024

The nature of airport design has often been the subject of much debate among architects and interior designers throughout the years, and much debate goes into the topic of an airport's most flash features. When it comes to floor-to-ceiling windows, unique fountains, or other displays that are sure to attract passenger attention, these features are often the topic of either disgust or awe.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

ForeFlight’s latest release features a Reported Turbulence Map—allowing pilots to see where aircraft are encountering turbulence using information sourced from the company’s Sentry ADS-B receivers. “No one enjoys flying through turbulence, whether you’re piloting a single-engine piston or riding in the back of a jet,” said Henrik Hansen, ForeFlight’s chief technology officer.

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Airline Geeks

APRIL 27, 2024

American is planning to operate its first regularly scheduled Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights from New York-JFK later this year.

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Cranky Flier

APRIL 22, 2024

United made a huge push into the Pacific this winter, and the numbers are somewhat staggering. With so many seats flooding the market, it’s perhaps not surprising that United has struggled to fill them all. Early results may not look good, but this doesn’t mean it’s a complete failure. There will be some improvement as markets mature, but there’s also going to be some tweaking needed.

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