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NEWS Aug 17, 2021 800 People Cram Into A US Air Force C-17 Leaving Afghanistan Amidst chaotic scenes at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (KBL), over 800 people have been evacuated from the war-torn city on one United States Air Force (USAF) C-17A flight to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It is likely the most people ever carrier on a C-17. Read More →
NEWS Aug 16, 2021 Afghanistan Falls to Taliban, Aviation Grinds to a Halt The Taliban has retaken Kabul, leading to a massive disruption in aviation and a mad dash to evacuate from the city and country. Read More →
ROUTES Aug 15, 2021 Virgin Atlantic To Ditch Glasgow Virgin Atlantic is moving their transatlantic Scotland service from Glasgow to Edinburgh. New routes to the Caribbean will be launched with the airport move, raising questions and hairs while also getting vacationers excited. Read More →
NEWS Aug 09, 2021 American Airlines Will Not Require Employees To Be Vaccinated American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said the airline is not planning to mandate vaccination for its employees. The decision comes days after other US carriers, United and Frontier, announced plans to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for employees in the next two months. Read More →
NEWS Aug 07, 2021 United Airlines Makes Vaccines Mandatory For All Employees Today United Airlines announced that it is requiring that all of its employees are vaccinated against COVID-19. This makes the Chicago-based carrier the first major airline in the United States to implement such a policy. Read More →
NEWS Aug 06, 2021 Canada's OWG Takes Delivery Of Its First Boeing 737- 800 Quebec-based OWG is a new carrier, coming onto the commercial airplane scene just last year. The airline is a division of Canadian carrier Nolinor Aviation and just added its first Boeing 737-800 to its fleet. Read More →
TRIP REPORTS Aug 03, 2021 Flying Southwest's 737-800 in 2021 A flight review of my flight from Oakland to Seattle. I sat in a unique seat and experienced what Southwest is like in 2021, and certainly noticed differences in Southwest today compared to two years ago. Read More →
ROUTES Jul 27, 2021 New Flights Launch Between Israel and Morocco Due to the peace agreement negotiated last year by the United States, airlines can now fly between Morocco and Israel. As a result, El Al and Israir have now launched 5x and 3x weekly flights, respectively, between Marrakesh and Tel Aviv. Read More →
TRIP REPORTS Jul 26, 2021 Onboard Flyr, the World's Newest Airline Join me as I try the new Norwegian airline, Flyr! Read More →
NEWS Jul 22, 2021 New Startup: Germany's Tel Aviv Air One would think that an airline named Tel Aviv Air would be based in Israel, hence the name. However, this is not the case for a startup named after the Mediterranean coastal metropolis. Tel Aviv Air will be based out of Hamburg Airport and intends to begin flights to its namesake destination Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport beginning September 19th, 2021. Read More →