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V Australia postpones Launch

Posted in Airlines, Planes, Tickets, Travel Woes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

V Australia, Virgin Blue’s long-haul offshoot, was supposed to launch its service from Sydney to Los Angeles on December 15th, but due to the strike at Boeing headquarters has forced the launch until February of next year!
The airline has suspended advanced sale of tickets for travel December 15 2008 to February 28th 2009.
The strike is [...]

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Fuel Savings: Jumbo winglets on Air New Zealand’s Airplanes

Posted in Airlines, Jet Fuel, Planes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Middle East – Where airlines don’t care about saving money!

Posted in Airlines, Airports, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

All over the world – in Europe, Asia*, Americas, Africa and Australia, airlines are struggling against rising fuel costs, trying to find opportunities to cut costs and make more money. But there is one region where fuel is not a concern and money is not an issue, the middle east. Airlines in middle east – [...]

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Video: Boeing 777 and 747 Crosswind Landing Test Videos

Posted in Video, landing video, tagged , , on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Please Note – These are videos are all tests, and most probably your airlines might divert the flight rather than landing in such winds. Though there are a lot of airline pilots who are capable of such landings!

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Now United? Grounds 777 Fleet

Posted in Airlines, Travel Woes, tagged , on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

First Southwest grounded its 737 (and was fined), then American grounded its MD 80s, then Delta grounded it’s MD 88s and MD 90s, then US Airways’ 757 trouble and now United grounded its 777 ? Is it a wake up call for FAA or normal business with a little too much media attention?

Facts

United Airlines grounded [...]

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Cathay Pacific 777 Fly-by

Posted in Funny Clip, tagged , , , on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Old story but awesome clip

Some facts about the story though -

Aircraft – 777-300ER (Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific)
The incident happened on Jan 30th 2008 while taking delivery of the plane
Shot by Matt Cawby (Seattle-area plane spotter)
It happened near the Boeing Plant at Everett, Washington near Seattle
The airplane overflew the [...]

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