Air Berlin’s A330s attracting attention?
Reuters has an interesting story on the Air Berlin A330 fleet. It mentions an apparent interest in a dozen of the 17. Take a look at the airline’s A330 fleet data and at the bottom of the chart, you can…
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Q & A with Bombardier’s Rob Dewar
We had the opportunity to speak with Rob Dewar, Vice President and General Manager, CSeries Program, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft after the initial CSeries operations at London City Airport earlier today. AirInsight: Thanks for being with us today. Rob, the approach…
CSeries Completes first flight into London City Airport
SWISS today completed its first flight from Zurich to London City Airport with the Bombardier CS100 aircraft, which is now the largest and longest-range aircraft to serve this aircraft close to London’s financial district. The following infographic from Bombardier illustrates…
Lufthansa’s “OpSession”
Lufthansa provided this PR: “As of this week, Lufthansa has been providing its 20,000 flight attendants with iPad Minis. The so-called cabin mobile device (CMD) will be provided to the entire cabin crew over the next few weeks. This is…
The correlation between airline ground time and profits
Airlines know that fast turnarounds mean profits – Southwest advertised ten-minute turns back in 1982. While there have been various claims about turnaround times, there has been a shortage of data to help determine just how important this factor is…
The next Battle of The Atlantic
There was a previous battle in world war two. The next one will not be violent but looks to be as belligerent. The next battle will be in the skies over the Atlantic as the newcomer LCCs pour capacity into…