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NEWS Dec 18, 2022 Largest U.S. Order Ever: United Orders 200 Boeing Aircraft United Airlines recently announced that over the next 8 years, they will acquire around 200 of their new planes and modernize their fleet of aging aircraft. This is one of the largest aircraft orders in American aviation history. Read More →

NEWS Oct 12, 2022 United Announces New International Routes for Summer 2023 United has announced a robust summer schedule for 2023 with three new exciting international destinations. Read More →

NEWS Aug 22, 2022 American Airlines Restores CRJ200 Through Partnership With Air Wisconsin Amid the retirement of American Airlines's CRJ-200s during the pandemic, American Airlines will reintroduce the 50-seater city hopper to its regional fleet mix. The airline announced a new agreement with regional carrier Air Wisconsin, basing up to 60 CRJ-200s mostly at its Chicago O'Hare hub. In exchange, Air Wisconsin will terminate services with United Express where it services United's hubs in Chicago O'Hare and Washington-Dulles. Read More →

ROUTES Mar 08, 2022 Avelo Launches Three New Routes From New Haven Avelo is launching three new routes from New Haven to Chicago-Midway, Baltimore, and Raleigh. Service will begin in May in time for summer and will help Avelo reach new business destinations. Read More →

TRIP REPORTS Feb 27, 2022 Trip Report: Alaska A320 to Chicago Alaska's a320 on longer flights is quite good, as I found out on my flights to and from Chicago. Read the review to find out more. Read More →

ROUTES Jan 21, 2022 Frontier Airlines Goes Head-to-Head with Southwest In a recent announcement, ultra-low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines revealed their plans to start flights to Chicago’s Midway Airport and Houston’s Hobby Airport in spring 2022. While citing lower operating costs as a massive benefit for the carrier, Frontier will be challenging rival Southwest Airlines on some of their most important turf. Read More →

TRIP REPORTS Nov 03, 2021 Flying United in 2021: 737-900ER from San Francisco to Chicago United's 737-900ER is decent for a medium-distance flight. I review and analyze my experience flying on the aircraft from SFO to ORD on my recent trip. Read More →

NEWS Dec 31, 1969 ANA 777 Suffers Engine Issues over Chicago Japanese Airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) suffered an engine issue shortly after takeoff from Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Flight 8549 departed Chicago en route to Tokyo at around 3:48 p.m. but quickly reported vibrations coming from engine No. 1. According to ATC transmissions, the left engine of the Boeing 777 was idle. Read More →

NEWS Dec 31, 1969 American Airlines Begins Distributing COVID-19 Vaccine On Sunday, American Airlines flew its very first flight carrying shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines, whose final destination would be a U.S. territory in the Caribbean, were flown from Chicago (ORD) to Miami (MIA) onboard a Boeing 777-200. American has joined a number of other airlines in the effort to distribute the newly authorized vaccine throughout the country. Read More →

NEWS Dec 31, 1969 United Airlines Announces Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine United Airlines has announced a plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines on behalf of Pfizer. How will they distribute them? Read this article to learn more. Read More →