EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & FOUNDER - SEATTLE, WA. David has written, consulted, and presented on multiple topics relating to airlines and travel since 2008. He has been quoted and written for a number of news organizations, including BBC, CNN, NBC News, Bloomberg, and others. He is passionate about sharing the complexities, the benefits, and the fun stuff of the airline business. Email me: david@airlinereporter.com
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It seems that sometimes the dumbest people also get to be the luckiest. A 20 year old man wanted to get from Vienna to London to find a job and didn’t want to have to pay for a ticket. Instead, he climbed under the security fence and climbed up the undercarriage of a private Boeing […]
Boeing announced yesterday that they have started fuselage assembly of the first 747-8 Intercontinental at their factory in Everett, WA. Even though this is not the first Boeing 747-8 built, it is the first Intercontinental that will carry passengers. The panels are part of section 41, which houses the flight deck and top portion of […]
Today, I got word from Jon Ostrower (aka FlightBlogger) that a Boeing 747-8 Freighter with a Korean Air Cargo livery should be outside at Paine Field. So I headed up to Paine Field to take a look and sure enough, it was there! I was just up there on Saturday taking a look at the […]
Over the past few months, the readership on AirlineReporter.com has been growing…a lot. Thank you all so much for your support, comments and putting up with my sense of humor. Since some of you are new to reading, I wanted to point out the other ways you can also connect to me and my blog: […]
Last month I told you about two flight crews who forgot to start the second engine on their regional jet before take off. Yes, people can make mistakes, but this is a pretty big mistake. Since then I have found more information on one of the incidents. It turns out that the Trans States pilot […]