News and notes from around the interweb:
- Why you need to stop whining about air travel
- Reminder that Wednesday is the last day to transfer American Express points to British Airways at a 1:1 ratio. Transfers become 5:4 on October 1. Given that British Airways just devalued at the end of April we might be safe banking a few points there for a little while.
- Ryanair has ‘no interest’ in ever flying to the US
- The familiar voice of the airline captain can be tracked back to one American fighter pilot (HT: Paul H.)
- Great Lakes Aviation, which receives about $60 million a year in federal subsidies, continues operating despite defaulting on the covenants in a $27.5 million loan.
- An Airbus A380 crosswind landing in Dusseldorf:
What’s spectacular about this?
Just a normal crosswinds landing IMHO.
Any professional pilot knows how to handle this.
Flew to Hawaii once during worst windstorm in years which had closed HNL. Landing at Kauai we flew at a 45 degree angle to the runway to land. No one told us what was happening so we expected the worst. But we were already beat from 5 hours of winds so bad the plane’s tail seemed to come around in front.
I love flying, I like to try different airlines, even in familiar destinations. It somehow happened that I never flew a regular Qatar Airways flight, although I was on board their aircraft many times at air shows, I met the first Airbus A350 in December 2014, but there was no regular flight among my routes. But this week I’ll finally try one of the best airlines in the world. It is the world’s largest passenger aircraft. Of course, you know that to date, nearly 200 Airbus A380 aircraft have been handed over to 13 airlines in the world. When choosing a ticket, you always give preference to a flight on the A380, all other things being equal. After all, each flight is a holiday for us, it is an expectation and anticipation of the discoveries of a new journey. Did you know that, a quote from Wikipedia: “In 2007, Airbus estimated a demand for 1,283 VLA in the following 20 years if airport congestion remains constant, up to 1,771 VLAs if congestion increases, with most deliveries (56%) in Asia-Pacific, and 415 very large, 120-tonne plus freighters.[306] For the same period, Boeing was estimating the demand for 590 large (B747 or A380) passenger airliners and 630 freighters”, source -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380.