Even though the Airbus A380 was recently introduced to passenger service, they are already talking about making it bigger. According to The Economic Times, Airbus is working with Lufthansa and AirFrance/KLM to possibly increasing the maximum passenger capacity up to 1000 people versus 555. Source: The Economic Times Image: Kleife
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 […]
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that disrupted about 600 flights and 60,000 passengers to be a wake up call that things need to change for American’s outdated air traffic control system.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 […]