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Marriage of the Minds At Anniversary Airport Getaway
Lacinda and Spud Homfeld at the Hangar HotelWhen an aviation geek says, “Let’s go somewhere where we can watch airplanes take off all day”, and the non aviation geek partner says, “Yeah, let’s do...
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America's Schizophrenic Approach to Airline Policy
On the one side you have Emirates under its new "Hello Tomorrow" slogan sending out a gleeful announcement of its commitment to American jobs. On the other side you have some of those U.S. workers,...
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Dancing Around With Dreamliner News - My Pre-Holiday Distraction
Rumors are flying that Finnair will soon be accommodating some international travelers on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The airline's official position is while retrofitting some of its Airbus A330 and 340s...
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Boeing Can Hope Ethiopian Flight Will End Its Annus Horribilis
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 that caught fire in London this summer will soon fly back to Addis Ababa, a flight both companies surely hope will take them closer to the end of 2013, an "annus...
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What a 10 Thousand Foot View Can Reveal
It was going to be a disappointing ride; two and a half hours on a bus traveling between Klagenfurt, Austria to the Alpine ski community of Kals. The bus would take me through spectacular scenery but I...
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Airlines Say US Should Deny Operating Certificate to Norwegian's "Shell Company"
Bjorn Kjos is interviewed in Oslo in 2012Four major U.S. airlines and the largest American pilots union are calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation to deny Norwegian's attempt to fly into the...
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Wrong Taxi by BA 747 Crew Takes a Bite Out of Building
And I'm guessing the wing on this airplane doesn't look too good either. Right.In what might be the most consequential error in their career, the flight crew of British Airways Flight 34 appears to...
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An Air Traveler's Resolution, Smile More, Grumble Less
My son, Antonio will be flying on Christmas.My son, Antonio, is flying from Charlotte, North Carolina on Christmas Day - so he can be home in Connecticut with the family. When he boards his US Airways...
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Another Year, Another Jumbo-Sized Collection of Aviation Stories
From start to finish 2013 was as jam packed as an airliner during the holidays with news about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. When I wasn't writing about whether the forced grounding of the world’s newest...
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Latest Salvo in Norwegian Battle; Recruiting an Army of Workers
Amelia Colon completes training in New YorkPhoto courtesy NorwegianWho says the thrill is gone from the aviation business? Apparently not Amelia Colon, Olga Komissarova or Frank Cedeno. They are three...
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Aston Martin Test Drive Whets Appetite for Flying
Through the rain splattered window of the Aston Martin I was driving on 12th Avenue in Manhattan, I could see my bicycle parked forlornly outside the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. A plastic...
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Boeing to the Dreamliner: “I Love You, Now Change”
Photo courtesy BoeingI believe this to be true about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner:Designers and engineers at Boeing are hard at work reworking the plane without its two lithium ion batteries. And, I...
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Leery of O'Leary, Ryanair's Charm Offensive Must Begin at the Top
Photo courtesy RyanairYou heard it here first, folks; Ryanair, the airline passengers love to hate, has a plan to turn on the charm. And just in time, it would appear, given the ransacking of one of...
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Is $53 Million Fair Compensation for ALPA Betrayal?
Twelve years may be a long time to wait for justice, and it may not have arrived even now. Still, today the twenty three hundred pilots who worked for Trans World Airlines, and who wound up on the...
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ALPA To Pay Half of TWA Settlement But Stays Wholly Unremorseful
If the Air Line Pilots Association has accomplished one thing during its 12-year battle with their members from the former Trans World Airlines, it is this; it saved up money for the rainy day that has...
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14 Years Later, Drama of Alaska Airlines 261 Remembered
Oxnard, California -- Along the 14 hundred foot Port Heuneme Pier fishermen dangle lines into the Pacific while dog walkers, joggers and families enjoy the occasional sight of dolphins arcing their way...
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Norwegian Air International, the Irish Hot Potato Gets Tossed to the US
It comes as no surprise to me that Ireland has approved the operating certificate of Norwegian Air International over the protests of labor unions and U.S. based airlines. The decision to grant the...
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Delhi Aviation Authorities Hold Airport Hotel and Guests Hostage
Terminal 3 at Delhi AirportIn her very funny book, Holy Cow, Aussie writer Sarah Macdonald writes about her first visit to India. After multiple delays in her attempt to fly home she describes the...
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Information Vacuum in Missing Malaysia Flight 370 Illustrates the "Twitter...
P {line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia, Arial; text-indent: 0;} That I first heard about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 while 10 miles out at sea in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay...
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Improbable Scenarios Blossom in Case of the Missing Airliner
Writing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- I heard two very interesting comments during today's press briefing by the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation into the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370...
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