Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, with NYCAviation.com, recently took an Amtrak train ride from Portland to Seattle and wrote a review to compare the experience to a flight. Here is his review in his own words: AMTRAK REVIEW Cheers: On-time, spacious, crazy low price Jeers: Equal to driving time; three times as long as a flight Coming off […]
Horizon Air, which operates Capacity Purchase Agreement flights for sister carrier Alaska Airlines, is the eighth largest regional airline and is based in Seattle, WA. Recently, their own Horizon livery disappeared and was replaced by Alaska’s Eskimo, but the airline still retained a nice collection of unique liveries. On May 31st, Alaska showed off their newest livery: San Diego State […]
From Qatar’s press release: Baghdad, IRAQ ’“ Qatar Airways has in the span of just two weeks expanded passenger services to Iraq with the launch of its second destination in the country ’“ to the capital Baghdad. The Doha-based airline is operating four-flights-a-week non-stop on the Baghdad route. Located on the banks of the Tigris […]
My friend Ben recently made the trip from Seattle to France and had a number of choices to going. After quite a bit of research (and many questions to me) he decided on trying out Icelandair, which flies from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) to Keflavàk International Airport (KEF) before changing planes and flying to Paris-Charles de […]
Here is a classic Piedmont Airlines TV commercial that seems to have aired sometime in the mid 1980’s. I wonder if the guy was able to get out of the way of the Boeing 727 behind him in time — I am guessing he was.