If you were wondering what kind of compensation you’d get if you narrowly escaped a burning 737, wonder no longer. China Airlines’ CEO flew to Okinawa to hand out envelopes with a crisp $100 in it to give to passengers who nearly died when their plane exploded. One. Hundred. Dollars.
Read the Rest of the Story: China Airlines Gives Passengers on Exploded Plane $100Citing safety concerns, China’s aviation authority has announced that they will not permit any additional airlines to launch before 2010. They are also cutting back on the number of flights into Beijing by about 5% (right before the Olympics — good luck getting a flight). While this seems very consumer unfriendly, it’s actually the opposite: [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: China: No More New AirlinesGood news if you’re a United flyer and you’ve had enough of filthy planes: The airline said that it’s going to use part of its capital improvement budget to "deep clean" their aircraft more frequently. They can spin that how they want, but that must mean their planes get extremely dirty. And that means you’ve [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: United: We’re Going to Clean Our PlanesA China Airlines 737 exploded in Okinawa shortly after landing earlier today. All of the passengers and crew managed to escape without injury (you can see a photo here. Amazing anyone lived).
I’m the first person to say that all first-world airlines are safe. However, China Airlines likely has the sketchiest safety record of any carrier [...]
Americans should consider ourselves lucky that hijacking, which was once a moderately common occurrence here, basically no longer happens here. The same cannot be said for other parts of the world. Case in point: An Atlas Air flight from Cyprus to Istanbul was hijacked over the weekend, with the hijackers demanding that they be flown [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Hijacking Thwarted in TurkeyI don’t even care about this anymore, but I feel like since I started mentioning it, I have to follow it through: Midwest accepted TPG’s buyout offer, and AirTran has said they’re not going to raise their offer anymore. Done and done.
Read the Rest of the Story: I swear this is it: Midwest/AirTran Saga FinishedIf you’re a complete airplane nut, you should know that the first A380 flight will take off on October 25th. The Singapore Airlines flight will fly from Singapore to Sydney, and return the next day. Regular service on the plane has not yet been announced. The airline is auctioning all seats on the flight on [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: First A380 Flight Is October 25thThis week marks the 20th anniversary of the crash of Northwest flight 255 outside of Detroit, an accident that killed all but 1 of the 155 people on board the flight to Phoenix. You may remember that, miraculously, a 4 year old girl named Cecelia Cichan was the sole survivor of the flight. The link [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Northwest Flight 255 Crash, 20 Years LaterVia Frommers:
SmarTours has a great deal on a 10 day package to China. $799 gets you a flight from San Francisco to Beijing, 5 nights hotel in Beijing, a flight to Shanghai, and 4 nights hotel in Shanghai. You can fly from New York for an extra $100. I’d say that’s a bargain. Prices are [...]
It’s a crazy world out there…Imus makes a racist comment and is paid $20 million NOT to go to work anymore. It looks like Michael Vick will cut a deal so he can play football again, even though he was a dog fighting ring leader. But Travelocity has been fined more than $180,000 because they [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Travelocity Fined for Selling Airfare to Cuba