Dan Webb on his blog, Things in the Sky, wrote up a story about Allegiant looking to possibly offer a new type of fare that changes with the cost of fuel. In a filing to the Department of Transportation, Allegiant wants to have the option of offering a fare that could fluctuate based on the […]
Japan Air Lines (JAL) has officially unveiled their new crane livery on a Boeing 767-300ER (JA654J) in Tokyo. The plane was flown, unpainted, from Paine Field to JAL’s maintenance center in Tokyo where it was painted in the new livery. The resurrection of the crane is to match the airline’s, “new philosophy and corporate policy […]
Big changes have been brewing over the past few weeks. Recently, Reuters Travel started a syndication of my blog. It is still “in-progress” and links and images aren’t coming over yet, but that should soon change. Already, this has increased the reach of the blog. I have been very grateful to be syndicated with the […]
Yesterday was a big day for Lufthansa and the Airbus A380. The airline started its first scheduled flight of the A380 to the United States. The flight from Frankfurt to New York’s JFK is the fourth Airbus A380 route for the airline, after Tokyo, Beijing and Johannesburg. ’œIn early 2007, Lufthansa and Airbus jointly landed […]
Recently I flew from Seattle (SEA) to Tucson (TUS) with a stop in Phoenix (PHX) on US Airways. The first leg was on an Airbus A320 and then a very short layover before heading down to TUS on a CRJ-900 regional jet. Since my flight out of SEA was at 5:15am and I woke up […]