(Thanks to Upgrade Travel Better)
I’m basically including this info solely for my friend Doug, who would be interested (for some reason) in learning how to crash your plane’s in-flight entertainment system. You can read the geek-heavy answer here.
Just a few months ago there appeared to be a large number of newspaper articles discussing how brilliant Southwest was for hedging fuel prices and then suggesting (at least hinting) that every other airline were fools for not hedging their fuel prices. Well, it turns out we now know why other carriers didn’t hedge: because [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: The Other Side of Fuel Hedging: Huge LossesAn Edmonton woman has filed an $85,000 lawsuit against Air Canada after a flight attendant spilled an unspecified hot beverage on her (by accident) during a flight from Vancouver to London. The plaintiff claims that her “inner thighs and pubic area” were burned when the flight attendant spilled the aforementioned drink. She also says her [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Woman Sues Air Canada for $85,000 for Spilled Drink(Thanks, USA Today Blog…)
The Boston Globe has an interesting profile of Cape Air, which serves small cities in the northeast by flying 9-seater Cessnas. The tiny carrier, which expects to earn a profit on its $70 million operation, has weathered the fuel storm because they have used aviation gas instead of jet fuel – aviation [...]
The OTR’s Offices will be closed on Friday for a staff retreat in New Orleans.
In the meantime, do yourself a favor and read this week’s Ask the Pilot column in Salon. This will make no sense whatsoever, but it’s about Dakar’s airport, poverty, and a hedgehog. It’s a really wonderful piece of travel writing.
Have a [...]
A drunk passenger on a Turkish Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey, to St. Petersburg gave a note to flight attendants saying he was hijacking the plane with a bomb. Turns out he was only joking, which is generally frowned upon. Passengers on the plane confronted the man and discovered he did not have any weapons [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Drunk Passenger Tries to Hijack Plane…Ha ha(Thanks, Airliners…)
A TSA screener at Newark Airport was accused of stealing more than 100 items from passengers’ luggage at the airport and selling some of it on eBay (you can see his great feedback here). He was caught when he stole a nearly $50,000 camera belonging to CNN and in a very, very bold move, [...]
I thought I’d pass along an interesting article about what’s happening with the US Airways and Delta Shuttles (as you might have guessed, what’s happening isn’t good). The short version is that Wall Street misery + Acela = mess. During the first half of the year, some months saw load factors in the 36% range [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: What’s Happening with the East Coast Shuttles?Norhtwest announced that it will drop nonstop flights between Hartford and Amsterdam for the usual economic reasons (they’re also dropping nonstops from Detroit to Dusseldorf and suspending Minneapolis-Paris for the winter). I really only bring this up because one of the arguements for the Boeing 787 was that it would allow airlines to fly mid-haul [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Northwest to Drop Nonstop Flights Between Hartford and Amsterdam2 moderate profile international flight suspensions I thought I’d pass along:
Air France will cancel its nonstop service from LAX to London Heathrow – without any major SkyTeam hub on either end, and quite a bit of competition, it was a non-starter. Instead, it will fly a codeshare with Delta from London Heathrow to JFK, essentially [...]
