By: David Martànez-Celis The Airborne Hotel, or abh, is an innovative seating system for wide-body aircraft that optimizes the available cabin space, ensuring a fully-reclining seat-bed for every passenger on board, while maintaining–and even increasing–passenger capacity of aircraft. The design’s functionality is based on the bi-level configuration of its seating modules, which enables the utilization […]
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By: Tim McCarthy It’s hard to believe that 12 years have passed since the tragic TWA Flight 800 crash that killed all 230 of its passengers. Following the four-year investigation of the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the accident was caused by an explosion in the center wing fuel tank that most […]
A Boeing 737 before the livery is actually put onto the plane. Will be going to Shenzhen Airlines. Image: BFIguy
The FAA sees this week’s software glitch that disrupted about 600 flights and 60,000 passengers to be a wake up call that things need to change for American’s outdated air traffic control system. The two computers (amazing only two) that help disrupt flights to controllers are updated multiple times per day. One of the files […]
It might be getting harder to have a guaranteed seat on your airline. I have personally been lucky and never have been bumped from my flight, but I would imagine it being a horrible experience. Due to airlines cutting back flights and having fuller flights, the chance of being bumped is getting greater. The NYTimes […]