(Thanks to the View from the Wing blog for the heads up):
Thanks to Hertz, you can get 10% off any Midwest Airlines flight over $200 by entering the coupon code HGMIDWEST when buying at Midwest’s website. Flights must be purchased by May 15th and are good for travel through June 16 (a handful of blackout [...]
The Ryan family, which founded Ryanair, announced that is has joined forces with one of Mexico’s largest bus companies to launch a low cost carrier aimed at Mexicans with family in the US. The new carrier, reportedly named AeroBus, will launch in September and will likely target US cities with large Mexican populations, such as [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Ryanair’s Founders to Launch Mexican AirlineAre you an out of work pilot looking for a new airline to join? I may have something for you. SriLankan Airlines has lost 30 of its 200 pilots since late 2005, a situation that has gotten so dire that it actually cancelled 2 London-bound flights last week because of a pilot shortage. You should [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: SirLankan Airlines Is Looking to Hire PilotsVenezuela’s government has announced (sorry, Spanish only…too lazy to translate) that they have cancelled all of Delta’s and Continental’s flights from the US to Caracas beginning March 1. Most of American Airlines’ flights are affected as well (though not the flights from Puerto Rico). As you may know, the US is in a bit of [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Venezuela May Cancel Flights from USDid an airline lose your bags last year? You’re not exactly alone. US carriers lost 10,000 bags a day in 2005, the highest number since 1990. The rate of lost bags increased 23% over 2004.
The worst offender? US Airways, which lost 9.62 bags per 1,000 passengers. Well done. Incredibly, this is 30% higher than the [...]
No matter how bad your flight delays are this week, they’re nothing compared to passengers who were scheduled to fly on Biman Bangladesh this past week. Bangladesh’s flag carrier faced mechanical difficulties on 3 of the 5 DC-10s it uses for international service, forcing it to strand passengers around the globe. In the past week [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Biman Bangladesh Passengers StrandedThe always-great Ask the Pilot column at Salon.com takes a look at the state of pilot pay. It ain’t pretty. You can read all the details in the piece, but suffice it to say, pilots aren’t getting rich. Salaries for regional jet pilots begin at an unbelievable $16,000 a year. Roughly what the dude behind [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: The State of Pilot PayAs you may know, El Al doesn’t screw around when it comes to security. To that end, El Al has installed anti-missle systems in all of its aircraft, becoming the first carrier to do so. The Israeli-built system, called Flight Guard, releases diversionary flares if its sensors detect an incoming missle.
Development of the systems, which [...]
A Turkish Airlines A340 skidded off the runway while landing at JFK airport last night. No one was injured, but it took workers about an hour to get passengers off the plane. New York City received about 27 inches of snow yesterday, so investigators are (obviously) looking into whether weather played a role.
Read the Rest of the Story: Turkish Airlines Plane Skids Off Runway at JFKSir Freddie Laker, the aviation pioneer responsible for introducing cheap fares across the Atlantic, died Thursday at the age of 83. Laker ran Laker Airways, a British carrier, that flew the Laker Skytrain from London to New York. The airline offered $100 fares in 1977, 2/3 below what competitors were charging, making it possible for [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Sir Freddie Laker, Dead at 83