Simple Flying

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When the threshold is breached and that plane crosses the transonic barrier, that’s when you see the spectacular vapor cones that appear in so many air show photographs. When an aircraft approaches transonic speed, the airflow begins to experience dramatic variations in both temperature and pressure.

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Threshold Jet Approach 105

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As of March 1, 2025, there will be new lifetime status thresholds. This is a huge improvement, still not that great Im delighted to see that American has added higher AAdvantage lifetime elite status thresholds. Americans million miler program is getting better!

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Threshold Airline Airlines 105

Simple Flying

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This additional payment is tied directly to certain performance thresholds over the next four years. This deal will provide Satcom Direct with approximately $375 million and five million shares of Gogo upon closing. The deal also includes up to $225 million in additional payments from Gogo to Satcom direct.

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Threshold Jet 119

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 12, 2024

American systemwide upgrades will have longer validity American will add new lifetime elite status thresholds I covered the details in a separate post , but the AAdvantage lifetime elite status program is improving in 2025. As of March 1, 2025, there will be new lifetime status thresholds. Id say the changes are minor but positive.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 93

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Even elite nights not earned through stays qualify toward these thresholds. It sure is helpful to be able to start the year with 40 elite nights, as that gets you most of the way to the two Choice Benefits thresholds.

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Threshold Approach 107

AOPA

JULY 23, 2024

nautical miles south of the threshold of Runway 36 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Two people died when a Lancair ES crashed shortly after noon on July 22, about 1.5

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Threshold Runway 98

Airline Economics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Elliott Investment Management has now acquired a 10% ownership of Southwest Airlines, it said in a filing late on August 30, 2024. The activist investor now has a large enough stake to call for a special meeting. Elliott is pushing for changes in Southwest’s management, aiming to appoint 10 members to Southwest’s board of 15 […]

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Threshold Airline Airlines 59

AV Web

AUGUST 29, 2024

The alert emphasizes the importance of promptly feathering the affected engine’s propeller before its rpm drops below the critical threshold where start locks engage. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a new safety alert for multi-engine pilots facing partial engine failure.

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Threshold Pilot Airplanes 98

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 7, 2024

There’s not another American credit card that offers bonus Loyalty Points just for surpassing certain thresholds in the program, unrelated to card spending. So, how does the Citi AAdvantage Executive Card factor into all of this? For example, below is a look at how the 20,000 bonus Loyalty Points posted to my AAdvantage account last year.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 111

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Note that there are several higher thresholds at which you can earn even more systemwide upgrades, as Americans Loyalty Point Rewards system has thresholds all the way up to 5,000,000 annual Loyalty Points (though I cant imagine many people will achieve that!). Keep in mind that your Loyalty Points total resets every program year.

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Airline Airlines Threshold Jet 111

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

NTSB Fitch continued to make small manipulations of the engine controls as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, still maintaining a straight and level attitude but at a landing speed much higher than normal. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 306

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Both American AAdvantage and World of Hyatt have systems whereby you can select from your choice of perks when passing various thresholds, even beyond the traditional elite tiers. As of 2025, members of both programs will be able to select some perks with the other program when passing certain thresholds.

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Threshold Airlines Airline 113

AV Web

JULY 4, 2024

The report noted that noise levels were measured for an average day; however, at certain times, noise levels significantly exceeded the daily average and often surpassed the 65-decibel threshold.

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Threshold Runway Jet 105

Cranky Flier

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It has the right to call for the meeting because it exceeded the 10% threshold of required stock to do so — but that doesn’t mean it’s going to work. It is changing the way customers can qualify for elite status and is managing to do it without raising the thresholds — not yet at least. airlines have done.

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Threshold Airline Airlines Runway 130

Cranky Flier

APRIL 29, 2024

We anticipate even more who are on the cusp of meeting the threshold to do so very soon, which will provide customers with excellent preferred agency options to go along with our offerings on aa.com. As such, we’ve decided to extend the update to the way customers earn AAdvantage miles and Loyalty Points on flights to July 11.

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Threshold Approach Airline Airlines 306

AV Web

JUNE 7, 2024

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson paid tribute to Anders on X, writing that Anders “traveled to the threshold of the Moon” in the Apollo 8 mission “and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. According to the agency, Anders accumulated more than 6,000 hours of flight time. We will miss him.”

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Threshold Pilot 98

AV Web

JUNE 7, 2024

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson paid tribute to Anders on X, writing, Anders “traveled to the threshold of the Moon” in the Apollo 8 mission “and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. According to the agency, Anders accumulated more than 6,000 hours of flight time. We will miss him.”

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Threshold Pilot 98

One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Online systemwide upgrade requests now possible American offers systemwide upgrades as part of the Loyalty Point Rewards program , whereby you can select these certificates for passing certain thresholds. That has finally changed.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 113

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

photo by Threshold Images via Yankee Air Museum) The C-47, Hairless Joe , is owned and operated by the Michigan Flight Museum and was one of the most vital pieces of military equipment in winning the war according to General Dwight D.

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Threshold Airplanes Airline Airlines 98

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The company emphasizes that many of the punctuality or delay statistics found online include even minor delays, which do not meet the compensation threshold of three hours. Skycop assesses the share of flights eligible for compensation using its proprietary data alongside public and non-public market analytics.

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Airline Airlines Threshold 130

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Well, there’s a (sort of) positive update on that front… American trialing online systemwide upgrade requests American offers systemwide upgrades as part of the Loyalty Point Rewards program , whereby you can select these certificates for passing certain thresholds.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 114

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Hyatt Leverage program terms suggest that the program is intended for companies where employees collectively spend a minimum of 50 nights per year at Hyatts.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 110

Aviation Bussiness News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Listen as this 777 increases power as it crosses the threshold. Did that extra burst of power increase the speed too much, resulting in the long-landing, float and subsequent Go-Around? The post BIG JET TV: B777-300ER long-landing/go around during Storm Bert appeared first on Aviation Business News.

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Threshold Jet 52

Aeroclass Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Image source: [link] In practice, there are nine main types, namely: Approach Lights Threshold Lights Threshold End Lights The lights of Runway End Identification Runway Edge Lights Runway End Light PAPI Lights Taxiway Lights Obstruction Aviation Lights Each of them has its own meaning, function, and color. What does REIL stand for?

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Runway Threshold Approach Air Traffic Control 52

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 16, 2024

Earning elite nights through spending can be worth it whether you’re just trying to earn Globalist status , or want to get to the next Milestone Rewards threshold. If you have the Hyatt Business Card, you don’t need to meet that threshold.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 110

AV Web

JULY 22, 2024

The accident happened before noon, and witnesses AVweb spoke with said a large plume of black smoke rose from what appeared to be the threshold or first part of Runway 36. Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh was closed for at least two hours on Monday after an aircraft, possibly a Lancair turboprop, crashed on the field.

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Runway Threshold 59

Cranky Flier

AUGUST 19, 2024

It just had to reach a certain threshold. Each cut put additional pressure on JetBlue to figure out how to use the slots in Long Beach. It took advantage of an airport rule allowing airlines to squat on slots and not use them fully. And that’s when the long beginning of the end arrived.

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Threshold Airline Airlines Runway 290

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

But I do think it offers some solid perks and unique benefits that could make it a keeper: Earning 1.5x

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Threshold Airline Airlines 111

Fly With Stan

APRIL 2, 2024

The runway 02/20 is a bit more than 900m long (don’t know if including or excluding the displaced threshold.) It should serve for take off and landing of pseudo satelites and high altitude drones. It is situated at the old Fuerteventura airport ( Antiguo Aeropuerto de los Estancos , which I’ve visited back in 2020).

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Threshold Runway 52

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“The New Frontier is our promise to deliver exceptional value with unbeatable flexibility.Unlike other airlines, Frontier makes premium benefits, like seat upgrades, truly attainable with lower thresholds for Elite Status. Let’s take a look at the details.

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Airline Airlines Threshold Jet 111

Cranky Flier

JUNE 4, 2024

The right way to do this is to make it as simple as having regular NDC thresholds but making them far less aggressive. And it also was only open to those agencies that have an incentive agreement with American, pushing out smaller agencies that weren’t large enough to have one of those. That makes no sense.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 182

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 14, 2024

Skilled Worker sponsorship remains the most common route into permanent UK employment from overseas, but updates to salary rates and rises in salary thresholds under the regime create new impediments to this recruitment option. significantly altering the situation for our airlines. hour week (up from £50,800).

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Airline Airlines Threshold Cabin Crew 76

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Using the VASI is crucial as it gives you safe obstruction clearance within 10 degrees of either side of the runway centerline and around four nautical miles from the runway threshold. nautical miles from the runway threshold. VASI provides a more extensive range of obstacle clearance at 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold.

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Runway Approach Threshold Clearance 98

Pilot Institute

APRIL 19, 2024

Owning Only the Small Battery Flying with the small battery means that your drone is below the 250-gram threshold. Owning Only the Large Battery Fitting the Mini 3 or 4 with the large battery will bring it over the 250-gram threshold. For each scenario, we will look at the recreational and commercial requirements.

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Threshold Pilot Payload 87

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

To combat this issue, the airport devised a revolutionary new method of fog dispersal using a series of Mistral fighter jet engines dispersed along the threshold and touchdown zones of one of the runways. Siren-Com / Wikimedia Commons It also became apparent soon after its opening that the new airport was prone to fog.

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Runway Jet Crosswind Threshold 278

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 21, 2024

JetBlue TrueBlue Perks You Pick program With the JetBlue TrueBlue program, you can earn elite-like rewards before you even qualify for elite status. Thanks to the Perks You Pick program, TrueBlue members can customize the perks they want.

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Threshold Airline Airlines 111

Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Only companies that scored above a threshold have been officially named Best Places To Work In Aviation. This looked at factors like employee retention, benefits, training, and culture and each company was given an overall score based on the results.

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Threshold Aviation Technology 79