Backcountry pilots can rejoice after an agreement was reached this week allowing general aviation airplanes on national forest lands. For more than a decade, the Recreational Aviation Foundation has been working with the United States Forest Service and policy makers in Washington, D.C., to preserve legal access to backcountry strips and to reopen airstrips that…
Skydive instructor Forest Pullman and his tandem jumper had just made a clean exit from their jump plane at approximately 13,000 feet over Thailand when the unexpected happened: The plane turned and headed straight for them. The two escaped the near midair collision, but just barely. Check out the harrowing event in this video, captured…
The twinjets, which are set to replace the Nepali national carrier’s existing fleet of two B757-200s, will make their commercial début on February 26 with flights to Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok and Bangkok Suvarnabhumi. Nepal Airlines plans to use the A320s to open up flights to Bangalore Int’l, Dubai Int’l, Guangzhou, Delhi Int’l, Kuala…
GoJet Airlines is adding seven Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft that will operate under the Delta Connection regional service brand…. Link
Qantas will run daily flights between Brisbane and Tokyo from August 1st, boosting the route from the previously-announced four flights a week. Link
Ethiopian Airlines is evaluating the Airbus A350-1000 and the Boeing 777X as it considers further widebody order plans, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam has confirmed to ATW. Link
For the second straight year, Frontier Airlines had the highest consumer complaint rate of the 12 largest U.S. carriers in 2014, and United Airlines had the second-highest rate, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Tuesday. Link
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-EMK performing FR-8592 from London Stansted,EN (UK) to Bergerac (France), was on NDB approach Y to Bergerac’s runway 28 in instrument meteorological conditions, when the aircraft descended below minimum safe altitude at about the time the aircraft was handed off to tower Link
Awesome footage of U2 flight from all different vantage points.
Boeing’s new 777X flagship is due to enter service in 2020. This seems like tomorrow to the company’s manufacturing side as it prepares for assembly, but for the 777 sales team looking to fill the production “skyline” during the transition it could be an eternity. Link