Condor Airlines
I am making plans for a Europe vacation and for the return trip Condor airlines has a very good price from Frankfurt to Seattle. I looked on TripAdvisor and they seem to compare with most US airline...
View ArticleQantas may add fuel stop to "non-stop" Australia to London flights
Necessary to avoid flying over Iran during current conflict. Other option is to reduce passenger load by approximately 90 passengers--the really expensive option....
View ArticleUkrainian 737-800 crashes on take-off in Iran
All 176 onboard perished. Airport spokesperson says "technical issue likely cause. Not much other information at this point
View ArticleFlybe, (Europe's largest carrier) collapses due to virus
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51746564 Not sure about "Europe's largest" title. Read it somewhere. Flybe tells all passengers not to come to the airport. No flights operating. Ouch. Thread title...
View ArticleSouth African Airways government aid cut off
South African Airways entered bankruptcy in December, and COVID has made things much worse... they're now facing possible liquidation....
View ArticleAvianca files Ch.11
One of the oldest names left in the industry. I did a lot of work with them about 12 years ago... sad to see their situation get to this point, but they won't be the last one we see go into our...
View ArticleFlight Review - Air India A320 business class
We did a short review of a business class flight we took on an older A320 with Air India. The most entertaining take away was that the plane clearly used to have function video screens but Air India...
View ArticleVirgin Australia enters Administration (AU version of Ch.11)
This happened on April 21st. https://thepointsguy.com/news/virgin-australia-goes-bust/ “Our intention is to undertake a process to restructure and re-finance the business and bring it out of...
View ArticleFlight Review - Qatar Airways A350-1000 QSuite Business Class
We did a full review of the QSuite business class flight on the A350-1000 from JFK to Doha. We checkout everything from the food, flying backwards, to the speed of the "super speed internet". It's a...
View ArticleLatam files for Bankruptcy in U.S.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...les-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection-70876301 Interestingly, it filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection. Wonder if this affects Delta at all?
View ArticleBrazilian GOL Will Be The First To Fly The Max
I mistakenly called out AA to be the first, now it will be GOL starting yesterday Dec. 9th, Then it looks like AA will follow late Dec. and United in 1st Q 2021, and Southwest in 2Q 2021. 63 more...
View ArticleIndonesia Airlines ONE Black Box is Retrieved
Now just need the voice recorder as well. Hopefully this will bring some answers soon. Yes it is an old aircraft, but as long as it is maintained properly it still has years left in it. 737-500's...
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