Fourth Boeing Strike in 20 Years
The near 27,000 workers of IAM -- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers -- are threatening to go on strike, claiming that the new proposed three year contract has terms set fourth by Boeing, Inc. that will reduce their benefits, increase health care costs and lacks any guarantee on ...
Mary Feik - 65 Years of Flying - Legend of U.S. Aviation
In recent news, Susan Gvozdas, journalist for The Baltimore Sun, covered a very interesting story about a female pilot, Mary Feik, who has flow for 60 years. Her flying career started back in 1941 when she applied for admission to the engineering department of the University of Buffalo. In her 65 ...
DHL Replacing Old Boeing 727 Fleet With Boeing 757
Amazingly, I had no idea that DHL owned Boeing 727's in their fleet. Those are really old airplanes but as it seems must be very dependable airplanes. In a news report I read from BangKokPost.com I discovered that DHL will be replacing their fleet of Boeing 727's and replacing them ...
Microjets Soon To Fly Over Europe
The skies over Europe could soon get a little more congested. Manufacturers such as Cessna and Jet Bird will be releasing a new kind of private jet in the form of the "microjet". Though these jets are much smaller than your run of the mill commercial jet, they claim to ...
Frontier Airlines Bankruptcy
What is going on? Frontier Airlines is seeking out bankruptcy, making this the forth airlines this month to go out of business. Unfortunately this has now become a hard business to compete in dealing with the high prices of fuel. Frontier Airlines says that they will continue their normal operations ...
Skybus Airlines Goes Bankrupt
Amazingly Skybus Airlines announced on Friday April 4th, 2008 that they are going out of business. This is no late April Fools joke and in fact, this makes for the third airlines to officially announce closure. Skybus Airlines is an Ohio based airlines that was founded in 2004. Read ...
The Top Most Luxurious Airplanes - Series One
I really enjoy reading about luxury airplanes and viewing their pictures. These following elaborate and extremely expensive airplanes have made my first series of The Top Most Luxurious Airplanes. These airplanes are beautiful, extravagant and have a price tag that would make even Donald Trump cringe. 2000 HAWKER 800XP The Hawker 800 ...
Aerostar Aircraft Owners
Robert Stevens sent it a question he wanted to get more information about. Here is a copy of his email below. I've been gathering information about potential planes for a possible purchase. On my short list are the T210 and some model of Bonanza. I had also considered going to a ...
What are the typical costs of owning an airplane?
For those who want to get their private pilits license and purchase their own airplane, I figured people would want to know what about the costs of owning airplane. How much is the the airplane and fuel/oil? How much do mechanical inspections cost? How much does it cost ...
Qantas Airlines Long Battle With Virgin
I don't think Qantas expect to see Virgin go the wall, but Ansett Mark II is a DOA, and it will take some time for Virgin to build infrastructure in the smaller destinations. It is an opportunity, and QF would be stupid not to try to exploit it. as for ...
