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Philippine Airlines flight PR113 from Los Angeles to Manila faced a mid-Pacific lavatory failure—and while the airline says it prepared for a possible diversion to Guam, crew onboard tells a different story. Flight attendants reportedly were instructed to manually handle human waste, disposing of it by hand, rather than divert the Boeing 777.
This is a big win because while the airline won’t rate among the world’s best business classes, it opens up a new way to reach numerous destinations on points where there aren’t already larges swaths of members competing for the seats.
Two passengers found themselves with the entire Philippine Airlines business class cabin to themselves. The young man and young woman decided to have dinner together on the plane. He moved over to her side of the aircraft. They began with champagne…
At the start of the pandemic, American Airlines filed for codeshares with Philippine Airlines amidst fairly outlandish rumors they’d fly to Manila.
That codeshare is now a reality.
American Airlines interlines a lot of passengers from Philippine Airlines at Los Angeles. They’re picking up a lot of passengers each day from Manila and sending many of them onward to Manila. Now American and Philippine Airlines have filed for permission to codeshare.
Yesterday’s Philippine Airlines Los Angeles – Manila flight declared a mayday and returned to the airport with its right engine releasing bursts of flames. The Boeing 777-300 was carrying 342 passengers and 18 crew. It was in its initial climb out when the right engine began surging. It returned to the same runway it had departed from 12 minutes earlier.
Patrisha Organo is a flight attendant for Philippine Airlines. On Tuesday she was scheduled for her check flight in order to qualify as a Cabin Crew Evaluator. On board a baby was crying. She approached the mother. The baby was hungry, but she didn’t have any formula.
She never once claimed to only be there for the flight’s safety.
On July 7 of last year Air Canada Flight 759 from Toronto to San Francisco was cleared to land on runway 28L. It lined up to land on taxiway C instead, which had four planes on it waiting for take off.
The NTSB released security camera footage of the Air Canada Airbus A320 about to touch down on the taxiway.
British Airways has finally joined PreCheck.
Notably though that’s not a help at New York JFK where terminal 7 doesn’t currently have PreCheck. Hopefully British Airways passengers with PreCheck will be afforded expedited screening.
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