22/1/2010 – Happy 40th Birthday To The Boeing 747 Forty years ago today history was made as the iconic Boeing 747 took to the skies for its first revenue passenger flight. While Pan Am had intended for the first Boeing 747 revenue passenger flight to be on the 21st of January, an engine overheating delayed…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 29/10/2009 – One Year Ago Today The World’s Largest Airline Was Created This week the landscape of US airlines changed, as did international airline alliances, and this change was cemented a year ago today. One year ago today the United States Department of Justice approved the purchase of Northwest Airlines…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 13/07/2009 – “Pan Am’s World” : A Film That Takes You Around The World In 24-Minutes Two weeks ago, on the 1st of July Delta Air Lines became the first airline in the United States to fly to all six permanently inhabited continents. As Delta Air Lines launched its service…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 1/07/2009 – Today Delta Air Lines Becomes ‘The New Pan Am’ Today, the 1st of July 2009, is a historic day in the airline industry. While many in the airline industry are focused elsewhere, Delta Air Lines launched it’s non-stop service between Los Angeles (LAX) and Sydney (SYD) becoming the…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 23/06/2009 – The Demise Of Airline Service & The Personal Touch Today’s Flying With Fish post on the demise of airline service, and the death of the Golden Era of Flying is a detailed discussion of the success and failure of certain airlines, running about 26 minutes long…and it can’t…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 12/05/2009 – PART II : The Mountainsmith Lens Case Giveaway Contest! Last week I received a few hundred replies to Part 1 of the Mountainsmith Lens Case Giveaway Contest. The question for Part 1 was : What airline in the United States has the term “Valet Check” on its tags….
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 7/02/2009 – US-Australia Fare Wars : Can Four Airlines Survive The Routes? Starting in February the lucrative marketing between California and Australia will begin a competitive shift that will again take another shift on the 1st of July. Come February 28th the link between Los Angeles (LAX) and Sydney (SYD),…
