There are so few holidays that bring such joy to the faces of aviation geeks (AvGeeks) throughout the United States. The 19th of August is met with anticipation and AvGeeks throw off their covers early in the morning, burst down the stairs and crane their necks to the sky looking for planes, contrails and the…
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Is This The Real Reason You Can’t Use Phones On Planes?
I dedicate this post to all my flight attendant friends … so put your seat in the upright position, turn off your electronics, except the one you’re about to use to watch the following video and prepare to laugh. The following video is one that should leave you in stitches … you should also…
Reader Mail : “How can you like anyone at the TSA?”
I have previously been asked “Why does it seem you hate the TSA,” but this readermail question comes at my coverage of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from a different angle. Today’s reader mail from Alexis W. through me for a bit of a loop. Alexis asks “I have been following you on Twitter…
The Love Of Planes … Visiting Where It All Began
Earlier this week NYCAviation.com’s newly appointed co-editor Jason Rabinowitz (by the way, Mazel Tov Jason!) wrote about New York JFK International Airport’s T3, the former PanAm Worldport, facing the wrecking ball. Reading his piece on the efforts to save JFK’s T3 reminded me of where it all began for me. Every AvGeek, Plane Spotter,…
Southwest’s Historian Passes Into History. So Long Brian.
If you read Southwest Airlines’ Nuts About Southwest Blog then you are probably familiar with the regular Flashback Fridays series … well it is Friday and sadly it is time to flashback on the man who brought us these flashbacks. Brian Lusk, Southwest Airlines’ in house historian, who had been with Southwest Airlines for…
Reader Mail : “Are airline bloggers competitive with each other?”
I get emails about airlines, airplanes and airports fairly often, but rarely if ever about airline blogging. Today’s reader mail comes from Ross Mitchell who writes, “Are airline bloggers competitive with each other, always trying to beat each other to be the top of the pile? I fly often, enjoy my time in airports and…
Airlines Not Being Entirely Honest About Delays & Cancellations
Yesterday Chris Elliott, a noted consumer advocate and travel blogger … who you should all be reading … wrote a blog post entitled ‘Are airlines bending the truth about weather delays?’, which got me thinking about all my delayed and canceled flights. I’m not going to go into the rules surrounding passenger compensation, or…
NYC Aviation Co-Founder Passes Away
I spent this afternoon at New York JFK Airport’s Terminal 8 with a number of journalists, bloggers and airline corporate communications people discussing airlines, airplanes, new liveries, mergers and every other related topic, favourite topics of Matt Molnar, co-founder of the popular aviation site NYCAviation.com. Many of the people I was with at JFK Airport…
Airport Lingo : Ramp vs Apron vs Tarmac
When you sit in the airport staring out the windows at all the planes parked at their gates what area of the airport are you looking at? The Ramp? The Apron? The Tarmac? The answer is … not the tarmac. Tarmac, while commonly used as a term to describe where airplanes are parked, is…
The new American Airlines paint job … yay or nay?
American Airlines will officially unveil its new aircraft livery in 15 minutes, at 9:00am CST, replacing their decades old classic livery … change can be good or bad. What is your opinion of the airline’s new livery? Happy Flying! @flyingwithfish
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