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With Chinese airlines off the table for MAX aircraft acquisitions, and Boeing struggling more generally, United clearly got much more favorable pricing than the standard 50% off of list to do this deal, and to do it now during the pandemic. United hasn’t aggressively retired aircraft types during the pandemic, either – so while they’ve been due for a fleet refresh timing on their end is somewhat more flexible than it otherwise would be as well.
Deep Black Horizon posted an air traffic control broadcast from American Airlines flight AA2292 on Sunday.
The aircraft was flying from Cincinnati to Phoenix and at 1:19 p.m. Central time, while over the northeast corner of New Mexico at around 37,000 feet, radioed Albuquerque Center about “a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing – moving really fast right over the top of us.”
At least two people were injured when a Longtail Aviation Boeing 747-400 freighter rained engine parts down on a village near the end of the Maastricht, Netherlands airport runway.
The plane was headed to New York JFK and had just taken off when the number one engine suffered damage and turbine blades began to fall, damaging cars and hurting people including an elderly woman wo suffered minor injuries.
A viral video appears to show a passenger on Singapore Airlines capturing a UFO on camera, flying just beneath the wing of the aircraft, as it prepares to land. What’s more the pilot seemingly has to take evasive maneuvers to avoid contact with the craft.
As the video opens it’s just like any video trip report you might find on YouTube. However 30 seconds in the pilot announces everyone must be seated and in brace position. Then the plane banks right as it appears to head in the direction we’ll see the UFO.
On Saturday Indonesian carrier Sriwijaya Air lost a Boeing 737-500 operating as flight SJ-182 from Jakarta to Pontianak. There were 56 passengers and 6 crew on board.
Each of them – along with the mechanics, air traffic controllers, and even people who were supposed to be on the flight but didn’t make it – has a story.
A year after the U.S. assassinated Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Irans troops responsible for clandestine operations against other nations, a digitally altered voice was broadcast to New York air traffic controllers announcing that a plane would be flown into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the government has been covering up UFOs. Former CIA Director John Brennan thinks something might be out there. The Covid relief bill requires declassification of what the government knows about UFOs within 6 months. This year Navy fighter pilot videos of unexplained encounters were released. And here’s new photos from Area 51.
Serious people think there’s a chance aliens exist. That alone should raise our estimate of the likelihood, shouldn’t it?
A televangelist bought a private jet two weeks after receiving PPP funds. The preacher says they got a good deal on the 14 passenger Gulfstream, and that they had their own money so didn’t need to use PPP funds for it.
The preacher’s wife posted to social media that they took the non-profit church’s jet on vacation.
The Boeing 737 MAX is ungrounded. Part of moving on, though, isn’t just getting regulators to sign off on the plane. It’s making things right with the families of people who lost their lives. Boeing paid out a substantial settlement, but Lion Air 610 families say their lawyer – made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich – stole the money to support himself and his reality star wife.
In 2013 Airbus warned of fume events from failure to clean environmental systems following leaks, and suggesting “A clean APU means clean cabin air.”
There are scores of Airbus narrowbody fume incidents across diverse carriers — including some fume occurrences leading to flight diversions and hospitalized passengers and crew — across JetBlue, Austrian, British Airways, American Airlines, Spirit, Lufthansa, easyJet, Aer Lingus, Jetstar, Germanwings, Turkish, Air France, Delta and others. And regulators may not be doing enough about it.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
