All Nippon Airways (ANA) recently announced an updated livery for the Boeing 787s and finally they are being seen out in the wild. ANA’s third 787 (registered JA805A) was officially delivered on December 30th, but it was not flown to Japan until January 4, 2012. On January 14th, JA805A was used on the 787’s first […]
So how long does it take Boeing to build a 777? That was a question emailed to me by reader Ron Thomas and I realized I did not know. I posed the question to Boeing on how long it takes for a 777 to be built and out of the factory, how long it takes […]
PORTER AIRLINES REVIEW BASICS: Airline: Porter Airlines Aircraft: Bombardier Q400 Route: Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) to Montreal’“Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) Class: Economy Seats: 13B (aisle) and 15D (window) Length: About 70 minutes (each way) Cheers: Everyone gets treated like they are flying first class — including free wine and beer. Jeers: Some […]
This is a pretty slick video showing the ins and out of a Pan Am Boeing 747-100. It does not start out in English, but no worries, it turns into English and what you see is much more important than what you hear anyhow. From the control tower, to starting up the engines to the […]
“If it bleeds it leads” — a nice classic saying of writing sensational stories to get more traffic. When I first heard of small cracks being found on Qantas and Singapore Airlines A380s I read up on it and found it to be a non-issue and not really worthy of writing a story. The majority […]