Lufthansa begins 747-400 retirements
22 years and 7 months after entering service ship D-ABVA is being decommissioned and will soon be sent to the scrapyard. During its tenure the aircraft has amassed just over 112,000 hours of flight time and 15,724 cycles. What’s surprising is that she looks as good today as she did on day one – a...
Ever wonder where your bag goes once you’ve checked it in?
This great Delta video shows you a piece of checked-in luggage flying between ATL and JFK. Now if only I had a bag with this technology on board so that that I could find the bloody thing when the accidentally ends up in Timbuktu.
SFO Time lapse video
The busy parallel runways at SFO often make for good pictures and interesting window seat experiences. They however are eclipsed by this great little time lapse video. Can’t wait tot try this for myself at YTZ or YYZ. SFO Planes Landing from TimeLapseBlog.com on Vimeo.
Man in jetpack race reals jets!
In my web travels this morning I stumbled on this video. Some people are crazy!
The new and improved WestJetVacations.com
A year ago I was invited to Calgary to participate in a prelaunch preview of the revamped WestJet.com. After the session I was asked if I would be interested in coming back for future previews including that of the WestJet Vacations site. As I was saying yes to the question I realized that I had...
I must have my own flight simulator!
This week I was lucky enough to visit WestJet headquarters in Calgary. As part of my trip they treated me (and @AbFabSkyLife and @SarahDeveau) to some play time in a 737-700 simulator. This was my first time in a simulator and it was fantastic. It took a while to get to grips with the beast...
LOT Boeing 767 makes an emergency landing in Warsaw
Chances are excellent that if you’re an aviation nut you have already seen this; yesterday a LOT 767 with 230 people on board made an emergency landing in Warsaw after crossing the pond from Newark. Dramatic stuff – tragedy averted by excellent airmanship.
Qatar Airways to start domestic operations in Iran
In a move that few saw coming, it was announced this week that Qatar Airways had been granted 9th freedom permissions to fly domestic air routes within Iran. Iran – it seems – has found a silver bullet to its domestic air travel woes and Qatar Airways have blown the doors off a new market....
Air Canada Top Tier: getting things done with Twitter
While packing for a recent trip I noticed that my Air Canada Elite luggage tags had mysteriously disappeared from both my laptop bag and my wheel-aboard suitcase. After spending a few minutes trying to figure out what had happened I decided that it didn’t matter and that I would just jump onto aeroplan.com and request...
