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My uber professional attempt to carve the AirlineReporter.com logo into a pumpkin
I normally do the Livery of the Week on Saturdays, but couldn’t find a livery that worked for Halloween. But FlyingWithFish was more successful and found a perfect livery for Halloween. What I did do was carve my logo into a pumpkin about a [...]
This Boeing 737-800 had the Hawaiian Lai on the tail, which didn't make too much sense flying to Alaska
My mother recently flew from Seattle, WA to Alaska and was excited to write about her travels, knowing her son runs an airline blog. I normally run a series “1st Person Perspective” where I will talk about [...]
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Iran Aseman Airlines B727 EP-ASC
When I am trying to sleep, I can find the “look out this window to see _______ mountain,” a little annoying. However being asked to pray by a pilot while in mid-flight would wake me up QUICK.
An Aseman Airlines Boeing 727-200 took off from Tehran, Iran, after a six-hour delay. About [...]
Photo of Paine field where one of the assembly lines for the Boeing 787 are located in Everett, WA. Photo by Flight Blogger
After much anticipation, Boeing has announced they will be building their second assembly line for the Boeing 787 in Charleston, NC. As a Seattle native, this comes as disappointing news. The company [...]
One of about 85 Boeing 717's that AirTran currently flies.
The Boeing 717 is a unique airliner. It started life as the McDonnell Douglas MD-87-105, then the MD-95, but when Boeing bought out MD, they continued building the aircraft under the name “Boeing 717.” The aircraft was produced from 1998 to 2006, with 156 built.
The Boeing 717 [...]
Southwest Airline's green logo
No, Southwest isn’t re-painting their exteriors green, but they are going green with their interiors. The airline is testing a Boeing 737-700 with innovative ideas to reduce weight and to use recycled material.
To start, there are new seats that are about 5lbs lights than their predecessors. This cuts down weight, which cuts [...]
Upclose and personal with an Airbus A320
NOTE: This blog was updated, see below.
The good news is the pilots were not sleeping on Northwest Airlines flight 188 that missed Minneapolis by 150 miles. The bad news is they still missed the airport and the real reason is not enough to save their jobs.
The Airline Biz Blog [...]
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Some of these seats could have been free in Ryanair's promotion
On Oct 12th, the BBC aired a documentary called “Why Hate Ryanair?” The documentary heavily criticized the airline, saying they had no respect or dignity for pilots or cabin crew, that “people feel cheated by Ryanair” and that its chief Michael O’Leary “is a bully”.
Ryanair [...]
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Horizon Air's UW livery taken during the football game yesterday. Photo taken by Sam Al-Khoury, UW Seattle graduate and co-worker.
I am a proud graduate of the University of Washington (in Seattle, WA) and yesterday was their homecoming game against the Oregon Ducks (43 to 19, we lost, I don’t want to talk about that…). During [...]
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Each week, Benet Wilson from AviationWeek posts some of the craziest aviation news out there. Here are three examples of the stories she found this week:
Drunk pilot, part one. Air India can’t seem to catch a break. First it had to deal with two pilots allegedly molesting a flight attendant. And now it has to deal [...]
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