David Achilles, who is an award winning director and editor (not to mention an avgeek) completed a very impressive time lapse video of his recent flight from Denver (DEN) to Burbank (BUR) and back while on Southwest Airlines. Before you get angry at David for having an electronic equipment on during take off and landing […]
Stories by David Parker Brown
When you are an airline customer that drops a few hundred million on some new Boeing aircraft, sometimes you just want your pilots to pick up the plane and go. Other times you might want a celebration. Either way, it should always be exciting every time that Boeing hands over the keys to a customer. […]
When it comes to airline food, most people have a pretty low expectation of what they will receive. That expectation has lowered even further over the past few years with the almost-complete elimination of free airline food served on domestic flights within the United States. To find a decent airline meal, one needs to take […]
Yesterday, Boeing celebrated building the 1000th 777 airliner, a 777-300ER registered A6-EGO, which is set to be delivered to Emirates Airlines later in the month. The celebration took place in the Boeing Factory and the 1000th aircraft was revealed to have a special “1000th” livery. “As the largest 777 customer, it’s very appropriate that Emirates […]
On March 1st, Emirates Airlines started operating their non-stop flight from Seattle (SEA) to Dubai (DBX) using a Boeing 777-300ER. The first flight was greeted with a water turret salute from the Port of Seattle Fire Department and by a nice fanfare inside the airport terminal. “This new service will serve as a gateway to an […]