Statistic of the day
Lufthansa is spending €1m per day for the next 1,000 days on its business class refurbishment on its long haul fleet. The new lie-flat business class seats are standard only on the 747-8 of which they have three (used for…
Year 2012
Middle Earth Airlines?
Air New Zealand has produced a new air safety video using a Lord of the Rings theme. It is certainly different, and if it is entertaining enough that folks watch, instead of ignore it, it will be effective. See for…
Why New Technology Airplanes are Late – The Continuing Saga
With the industry abuzz about a delay for the Bombardier CSeries, it may be an appropriate time to revisit why new airplanes can’t seem to be certified on time. In a piece we published earlier this year, we cited several…
CSeries hits a delay
Bombardier just announced a six month delay in the first flight of its CSeries. Originally first flight was planned for December or early January. But a delay has been anticipated; take a listen to our interview with program boss Rob…
Firefighting airplanes in the US
To start with, watch this video. [yt]8QEt6hHxb5o[/yt] The US firefighting fleet is old. The Neptune is an old airplane. The US firefighting fleet has met with a number of crashes (link). Pilots flying fire fighting missions face tremendous challenges. Invariably…
Q400s manufactured in Russia?
Late last week there was a brief news flurry from Russia about Bombardier manufacturing Q400s in Russia. Turns out this was news that came from a Russian source and not from Canada. Indeed, we spoke with Bombardier about this news…