Today’s reader mail comes from James O’Connor, in Glasgow, Scotland. James asks, ” I have just realized that I always board my flights from the front left door. Do all planes board from the left side? If so, is there a rationale for this?” James, the answer is “mostly yes.” Today all commercial airliners…
(For Disclosure: American Airlines Granted Me Access To The Flights & Facilities Of My Choosing Beyond What ‘The General Public’ Would Be Allowed Or Offered. AA & Its Parent Company AMR Have No Input Into What I Am Writing) Â When an airline is in financial crisis and in bankruptcy the shift of views on…
In January 1991 I was in the 10th grade, living in my parents house just down the road from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. From my window growing up I watched all the airlines fly by, Pan Am, Braniff, TWA, National, Eastern, and woke up to both the British Airways and Air France…
Syrian Air is seeking to expand its fleet … but it has a problem … it can’t source effective aircraft for its fleet. Since the United States imposed sanctions on Syria in 2004, and transactions with the Commercial Bank of Syria, Syrian Air has been unable to have access to new modern ‘western’ aircraft.’ Syrian…
