News and notes from around the interweb:
- United’s final 747 flight has been scheduled. A few of you may want to get on it.
United’s livery of my youth. By Torsten Maiwald, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons - Which airlines pay pilots the most.
- Capacity growth and profit has slowed at Emirates but the airline isn’t ‘in trouble’
- Delta tweaks on-time metrics for corporate customer guarantee
- Why American won its anti-trust suit against Sabre. I do not like this ruling at all.
- Planes nobody wants. There hasn’t been an order for an A318 in nearly two years and that was a corporate jet. Boeing lists the 777-200ER for sale but hasn’t sold one since 2009…
- 100 year old film of the Red Baron
…preparing for a mission, as well as film of him putting on a flying suit prior to a flight in cold weather. If you look closely you will also see a brief glimpse of Hermann Goering.
The Baron was shot down on 21 April 1918 by Roy Brown of the Royal Navy Air Services, long before it was called the R.A.F.
October is a very busy month for travel to Asia. Seems strange they would move from a 747-400 to a 777-200 until they received their new 777-300’s. The 777-200’s are a step below what most Asian airlines are using for those routes. Very short sided.
Emirates Airlines can never be “in trouble” unless and until Shiekh Maktoum decides he is no longer willing or able to provide an unlimited subsidy to his airline.
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“The Baron was shot down on 21 April 1918 by Roy Brown of the Royal Navy Air Services, long before it was called the R.A.F.”
Wrong, I’m afraid: The Red Baron was actually shot down 20 days AFTER the Royal Air Force was formed, which was on 1 April 1918, making it the oldest independent air force in the world.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force