Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Ryanair may start to look for its planes closer to home. Of course, saying it was thinking about a switch from Boeing to Airbus would be far too simple for CEO Michael O'Leary ... the genius behind "pay-to-pee" and many, many other stunts. O'Leary needs a bit more style, which is why his new intentions are being called "divorce."
O'Leary believes that the management shakeup at Boeing has taken the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Ryanair threatens to "divorce" Boeing
Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Ryanair may start to look for its planes closer to home. Of course, saying it was thinking about a switch from Boeing to Airbus would be far too simple for CEO Michael O'Leary ... the genius behind "pay-to-pee" and many, many other stunts. O'Leary needs a bit more style, which is why his new intentions are being called "divorce."
O'Leary believes that the management shakeup at Boeing has taken the ...Is airplane air toxic?
Jul 31st, 2009 at 1:28PM: There's a recent CNN article about a flight attendant who became ill after working a flight back in 2007. Her illness is alarming.
First, she felt as though she were coming down with a cold; then her nasal discharge was a neon green -- the color of antifreeze! Since then, she claims to have suffered chronic migraine headaches, tingling in her feet, loss of balance and vision problems.
These health ...Will passengers stand for latest Ryanair stunt?
Jul 6th, 2009 at 1:30PM: Just when you think Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary can't come up with another way to mess with his passengers, he takes away the seats. The European low-cost carrier's latest way to cut costs and cram more people on planes is to stick them on stools with seatbelts. According to the Daily Mail, he's even spoken with Boeing about making this happen.
The nice expression for this, used Ryanair ...Boing 787 "Dreamliner" maiden flight delayed again
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 1:30PM: Poor Boeing. They are right in the middle of one of the worst economic downturns in their history, and their newest plane is creating a bit of a disaster of its own. The 787 Dreamliner was scheduled to take its first flight early last year, but they realized back then that it could be moved to September 2008. We are now in the Summer of 2009 and Boeing is on their sixth delay. The delay comes ...Boeing releases snazzy new 747-800 interiors
May 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Development of Boeing's 747-800, heralded as a direct competitor to the A380 has been underway for several years now. The super jumbo jet will feature many of the same engineering marvels that the 787 will, including swept wings, cut engine nacelles and similar cockpit controls, and will some day be the largest commercial airplane built in the western hemisphere. So far, however, nobody has seen ...Why you don't stand near the jet engine on the tarmac
Panic after fighter jets escort 747 around Manhattan
American Airlines updates fleets with new Boeing 737s
Apr 21st, 2009 at 2:00PM: With the oldest fleet in the American workforce, it was about time that American Airlines got aggressive with updating their aircraft. This year they're starting the revamp with delivery of new Boeing 737-800s. While the 737-800 airframe has been around for ten years now, American is making sure to include all of the modcons to keep passengers happy. Among those tidbits will be new, numerous ...How to destroy V Australia's $23M flight simulator
Apr 7th, 2009 at 9:30AM: I thought that I was the luckiest person in the world when Ken Pascoe and Marty Khoury, two pilots from V Australia invited me, a lowly blogger, out to visit them and their flight simulator out in Australia last week. Sure, I edit a travel blog and I do run Linux, but that usually can only get me so far. So I was thrilled to accept the invitation and join the crew out in Silverwater, just outside ...Inside V Australia's Boeing 777 flight simulator
Mar 31st, 2009 at 11:00AM: When I was invited out to visit V Australia's 777 on it's maiden voyage from Seattle - Los Angeles - Sydney earlier this year, poor Amanda Bolger from public relations had no idea what she was signing up for. Sitting in the cockpit with Ken Pascoe, the pater familias of VA pilots, we took a couple of photos and he casually mentioned "Hey, if you come out to Sydney we should take out the ...Behind the Scenes of the V Australia 777 tour
Feb 11th, 2009 at 1:00PM: When any Virgin company throws a party, it's usually in your best interest to show up. Whether this is a Virgin American inaugural flight with Victoria's Secret models, a Virgin Galactic tour in the Mojave Desert or plain old marketing schlep, you're almost always guaranteed to meet a few friendly faces, have a few drinks and learn something interesting about the Virgin brand. Last week's ...Onboard V Australia's Boeing 777
Feb 10th, 2009 at 9:00AM:
This past Friday, Gadling got a special invitation to tour V Australia's new Boeing 777 jumbo jet, the aircraft that will soon fly routes between California and Australia on the world's newest airline.
We'll get to into all of the hobknobbery of the event in a forthcoming post, but for now, lets take a look through the aircraft.
Each Boeing 777-300 has three classes of service: Business, ...Richard Branson christens the new V Australia 777 in LAX
Tune in for the V Australia 777 Launch
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Feb 5th, 2009 at 4:00PM: The world's newest Transpacific carrier takes delivery of their first Boeing 777 aircraft this week, as executives from V Australia and Virgin converge in Los Angeles for the ceremony. Tomorrow afternoon, Richard Branson and top brass will pick up the aircraft in Washington and shuttle it down to LAX, where a fanfare of media pawns, cocktails and schmoozing will welcome the group. On arrival, ...First flight delivery of 787 adjusted (again)
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Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Now that the whole strike and fastener ruckus has been sorted out at Boeing, manufacturing is back in full swing on the 787 Dreamliner. The Chicago based company is so confident in their progress that they've actually announced another first flight and delivery date for their long heralded aircraft. As of last week, the two respective events are slated for second quarter of '09 and for the first ...Boeing and Air New Zealand to Test 2nd Generation Biofuel
Nov 13th, 2008 at 12:30PM: Boeing has announced that it will carry out tests of a new "2nd generation" biofuel using one of its 747s. The plane,owned by Air New Zealand will take off on December 13th. Because it is the first live test, only one of the plane's 4 engines will use the fuel, made from the nuts of jatropha plants (pictured). Jatropha is an inedible plant that is indigenous to Central America and the Caribbean, ...Boeing to push back 787 first flight, deliveries
Nov 5th, 2008 at 10:15AM: It was hard to imagine that Boeing could keep on schedule for 787 deliveries with the strike at large among machinists, but yesterday they made the news official: first flight and deliveries are definitely pushed back. Originally scheduled for 2008, the first flight of Boeing's Dreamliner has been repeatedly delayed, most recently to Q4 of 2008 and now into 2009. During that time, several PR ...Boeing, the unions and your commercial jets
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Oct 29th, 2008 at 8:00AM: Like many of you waiting for your 777 or 787 to arrive, I've been closely watching the progress of Boeing against their rival unions for the last two months. As the manufacturing woes go, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) has been striking against the airframe manufacturer since early September, primarily citing worries about their jobs going overseas. For, Boeing, who has a long ...How does your presidential candidate get around?
Oct 17th, 2008 at 9:00AM:
With all of the cavorting around the country on the campaign trail, John McCain and Barack Obama need some pretty quick, reliable transportation -- after all, you can't get from Nevada to Ohio to Florida in two days on the bus version of the Straight Talk Express. To that end, each candidate has chosen and retrofitted an aircraft of their own for campaign purposes, Obama with a larger, 757-28A ...
