Russia-based Transaero Airlines, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for four Airbus A380s this week. The airline will become the first A380 operator in Russia. Transaero plans to configure their A380 in a three-class layout, which will seat 700 passengers. With so many seats, I would imagine that first and business class will be quite […]
When I first started this blog a little over three years ago, I never thought I would be one of the first people to ever fly on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. This truly is a dream (liner) come true. Over the years, I have closely followed the 787, through its many ups and downs and […]
This is a guest blog from Vinay Bhaskara who writes for Bangalore Aviation. He recently did quite a bit of research on Delta Air Line’s historical operations at Portland and this is his blog in his own words: Not many people are aware of it, but Delta Air Lines once had an Asian gateway at Portland […]
I just had the opportunity to meet with Mizohata san, the Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency and san, the Director of Intentional Tourism Promotion about Japan’s tourism outlook. I will be sharing much more information later, but one thing that seemed to interest quite a few people on Twitter was the fact that Japan […]
Normally when people talk about the “good old days” of flying, they aren’t talking about the early 1930’s. But this was a big time in aviation and one of the most interesting aircraft of that time was the Dornier Do X seaplane. It would be hard to mistake the Do X for anything else. It […]