Remember Eastern? Pan Am? Well, the next one to join the list of airline has-beens will be Northwest. Northwest Airlines may have made it to the beginning of 2010, but won’t see another New Year’s Eve. The carrier, which was acquired by Delta in October 2008, has received permission from the FAA to ditch the [...]
Could 2010 be the year for American Airlines? Well, it’s hard not to see the light at the end of the tunnel after a decade of unusual airline severity. The market was shaken several times by terror attempts – including the attacks of 9/11 – economic pressures from the dotcom meltdown and the recent financial [...]
What does Ivana Trump dislike about airplanes more than peanut packets or lines outside the lavatory? Children running around, making noise in the aisles. That’s what threw her over the edge on her Delta flight departing Palm Beach Airport yesterday. Originally what made he upset was something about her first-class seat in the LaGuardia-bound plane. [...]
That may be true for most places, but food prepared in the LSG Skychefs kitchen in Denver doesn’t match those findings. When an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) inspection team paid a visit to the Denver kitchens of LSG , it found the kind of mess you’d expect from a big city restaurant with bad [...]
I recommend turning the audio down on your computer if you plan to watch this at work, or around children, as the narrator tends to swear a lot. Here is a video of something you don’t see every day out the airplane window – the launch of a Space Shuttle. The video was captured by [...]
There’s big news on the frequent flyer front today, as both Virgin America and V Australia announced that they would be teaming up with partners to their frequent flyer programs. Visitors to the Hilton brand of hotels can now earn miles on Virgin America with each stay, while passengers on Delta Airlines can now both [...]