Air Moldova was founded in 1993 and is based in ChiÅŸinău, Moldova. When the airline first started operations, it was a unit of Aeroflot, Russia’s governmental airline. At first, the airline operated with old Russian aircraft: the Tupelov TU-154, TU-134, and Yakovlev Yak-42s. Today they have a fleet of five aircraft including three Airbus A320s, […]
This blog is guest written by my father, who was a Naval aviator for twenty years and got me started on my passion for aviation. During a recent chat he shared this story with me and I asked him to write it up as it is a piece of airline history. Here is his story […]
To the untrained eye, one might not know what airline owns this Boeing 737. Lucky for us airline nerds, it is easy to tell that it is either a Boeing 737 with United or Continental livery. This incident happed a few months back in in Greenville, Mississippi after the aircraft was painted to the new United […]
It is obvious right? Being stuck at an airport because of delays or a cancelled flight is no fun. Recently, I had a fun little experience in Dallas after flying from Seattle (out of BFI) to Dallas (DFW) for American’s delivery flight of their first Boeing 737 with Sky Interior. The delivery flight arrived at […]
Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, recently posted this photo on his blog to help promote which Boeing aircraft will be showing up at the Paris Air Show later this month. Tinseth announced that the 747-8 Intercontinental, the 747-8 Freighter, the first 787 flight-test airplane ZA001, an Air Berlin 737-700 with […]