American Airlines today announced that after reviewing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) policy on raft capacity (which mentions that the rafts on the plane should accommodate for all passengers, crew and lap children), they found that the Boeing 767 fleet was not following the policy. So, temporarily all flights using the plane will be restricted [...]
Posts Tagged ‘767’
American Airlines limits number of passengers on its Boeing 767 fleet
Posted in Airlines, Safety, tagged 767, American Airlines, Boeing 767, FAA, Flight 1549, Raft, Restriction, Self Check on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fuel Savings: Jumbo winglets on Air New Zealand’s Airplanes
Posted in Airlines, Jet Fuel, Planes, tagged 767, 777, Air New Zealand, Boeing 767-300ER, Boeing 777-200ER, Carbon Emmission, Environment, Fuel Saving, Less Drag, New Zealand, Retrofit, Swedish Dryers, Winglets on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New Zealand’s largest airline, Air New Zealand announced that it will retrofit winglets to its Boeing 767-300ER. The makeover is supposed to cost about 4 million NZ dollar project but is supposed to save around 6.5 million litres (or 1.6 million gallons) of fuel savings with a payback in 3.5 years (and will continue to [...]
Quantas announces cost cutting measures
Posted in Airlines, Jet Fuel, Planes, tagged 737, 767, A320, Australia, Capacity cuts, Capacity Reduction, Layoff, Quantas Airways, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, Retire on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier last week, Virgin Blue announced cost cutting measures. Friday, Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) Airways, largest Australian airline and Australia’s national airline, announced their own measures -
Cut 1,500 jobs by Dec 31 2008 – 20% management and head-office support positions to be slashed
Cancel plans to hire additional 1,200 employees
Cancel a planned 8% [...]
Near Collison over New York’s JFK Airport?
Posted in Airlines, Airports, tagged 737, 767, Cayman Airways, FAA, flight 533, flight 792, JFK, LAN-Chile, Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile, National Transportation Safety Board, Near Collision, New York, NTSB on July 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that it is investigating a near collision that happened over the weekend over New York’s JFK Airport between a Cayman Airways Flight 792 (Boeing 737) and a Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile (LAN-Chile) Flight 533 (Boeing 767) that came within 100 feet vertically of each other.
From NTSB website [...]
American Airlines Flys to Paris without a Panel
Posted in Airlines, Planes, Travel Woes, tagged 767, American, Dallas, Panel, Paris on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On April 20th 2008, an American Airline’s airplane (Boeing 767) took off from Dallas Fort Worth Airport for Paris. While climbing up to the cruising altitude a 3-foot by 6-foot panel made of composite material feel of the plane’s belly. Though it wasn’t till the plane reached Paris that the loss was identified.
From here
“[It] sounded [...]
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