Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’

Hurray!!! Qantas starts LAX service with its Airbus A380

Posted in Airfare, Airlines, Airports, Celebrity, Planes, Tickets, Travel Location, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today Qantas became the first airline to fly a commercial flight to USA (Los Angeles) on the world’s largest commercial aircraft, Airbus A380. The current flight numbers for the the Airbus A380 are QF 11 and QF 12. The flight will allow passengers to fly Los Angeles (LAX) to Sydney (SYD) or Brisbane (BNE). The [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Good News Everyone: Qantas receives its first Airbus A380 (with Video)

Posted in Airlines, Airports, Luxury, Video, landing video, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

September 21st 2008, Sydney got its first landing by an Airbus A380 with Qantas’ first A380 delivery.
Some highlights of the event -

Like Father like son – Captain Peter Probert flew the plane (his father flew the first Boeing 747 into Australia in 1971)
Flight – Flew from Toulouse, France (Friday night) and landed in Sydney about [...]

Read Full Post »

Good news everyone: LAX gets a new taxiway to improve safety

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today ( June 24th 2008 ) LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) is opening a new $83 million taxiway. The taxiway is expected to reduce the risk collision when airplanes cross one of the two runways on the airport’s south side.
From LA times -
“Historically, LAX has had one of the highest rates of so-called runway
incursions in [...]

Read Full Post »

Singapore Airlines: Iphone/Ipod docks, 15.4 inch screens and more

Posted in Airlines, Passengers, Planes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Singapore Airlines has been selling so many business class tickets on its routes from NYC-Singapore and LA-Singapore that “it is converting the five ultra-long-haul Airbus A340-500 jets that it uses on those routes to all-business-class seating“. Currently the aircrafts are – “outfitted in two classes: 63 business-class seats and 117 seats in what Singapore calls [...]

Read Full Post »

Dennis Farina Arrested at Los Angeles International Airport

Posted in Airports, Celebrity, tagged , , , on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dennis Farina, the former “Law and Order” star and former Chicago Police Officer, was arrested at the Los Angeles Airport for carrying a loaded .22 caliber semi-automatic weapon in his briefcase.
Farina, 64, was booked in a felony case after LAX screeners found a
loaded handgun in his briefcase as he prepared to board a plane. More…

Read Full Post »