NEWS Frontier Airlines raising baggage fees
Frontier Airlines, which has expanded rapidly in Phoenix and other cities, is raising its baggage fees in May. Link
Best deal: Business Class – American / Delta – About $1,550: American or Delta hubs – Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo, Brazil. Roundtrip, including all Taxes
View from The Wing reports that American and Delta is having a business class fare war going on to Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo out of each others hubs. American is attacking Delta fares out of: Atlanta [ATL] Detroit [DTW] Minneapolis [MSP] Delta is attacking American fares out of Dallas [DFW] Los Angeles [LAX]…
NEWS Air India Held A Job Fair And No One Showed Up
Air India hosted a job fair earlier this week in hopes of filling at least some of the 197 vacant pilot spots for its Airbus fleet, alone. Not a single applicant showed up. Not. One. Air India’s shortage of cabin crew is well known. The problem is so severe that it’s faced frequent flight delays…
NEWS GPS, a large unaddressed critical infrastructure problem
If the complex satellite system that supports our country’s global positioning system ever goes down, there’s no backup. Link
NEWS (Video) F-22 Aerial Refueling At Night
Quite a menacing sight coming up through the darknes. An F-22 Raptor receives fuel from a KC-10 Extenderover the U.S. Central Command area of operations, while supporting air strikes in Syria. Link
NEWS Qantas boosts A380 flights to Hong Kong, Dallas
Qantas will ramp up its Airbus A380 flights to Hong Kong and Dallas over the 2015-2016 Christmas/New Year period, with the flagship superjumbo adding scores of extra seats on both routes during the high-demand holiday season. Link
NEWS Blue Angels Perform Flyover at Disney World's Magic Kingdom
While en route to the Melbourne Air & Space Show The Blue Angels fly over the park. Link
NEWS FAA report: South Suburban Airport would have 'minimal impact' on Chicago's other airports
The proposed South Suburban Airport would have “minimal impact” on other Chicago-area airports, according to a recently released report from the Federal Aviation Administration. It also concluded that Chicago’s airspace could handle traffic from a third major airport during its first five years of operation. Link
NEWS NASA Researching Integrated Propellers Could Be The Future Of Electric Flight
Electric planes won’t happen until battery technology improves by leaps and bounds. That’s spurred researchers at NASA to take a different tack, testing a new style of wing that integrates over a dozen small propellers to boost efficiency, reduce drag, and make electric propulsion feasible for light aircraft. Link
NEWS Amazon Was Just Granted Permission For Drone Research In The U.S.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just granted Amazon Logistics, Inc. an experimental airworthiness certificate to allow the company to operate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for research and development and crew training. Link