Chalk this up as a small victory in the war on common sense. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed today that it will remove some airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers by June.
These are the large blue backscatter X-ray machines from Rapiscan that we have already seen disappearing of late (on the purported grounds that they slow the screening process down too much). There will still be ...
Have you been on a Delta Airplane since Nov 1? If so and you're anything like me you've probably opened up Sky Magazine and flipped through it. On my last flight I was flipping through the magazine and I realized that Delta has a "welcome" message to Xiamen Airlines to the SkyTeam! Which is CRAZY because Xiamen Airlines has NOT officially joined the SkyTeam yet!
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On June 8, 2011, the 1st ...Earlier this week an Air Canada flight traveling Vancouver to Sydney received a call for help from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority after an Australian sail boat suffered damage and was drifting away from Austrailia in a remote location in the Pacific Ocean. The airliner notified passengers of the situation and staff barrowed binoculars from passengers on the flight to aid them in their search. The pilot, after deciding they had enough fuel, diverted from their course and detoured to ...
Although United Airlines, with great fanfare, announced that the Boeing 787 would operate the carrier's new Denver-Tokyo Narita route next year, that will not be the first route we will see United's newest fleet addition on. Today, United filled us in on what other routes we can look for the 787 on:
We’ll kick off our 787 international routes on December 4, with service between our Houston hub and Amsterdam. This route will be offered through March 29, 2013.
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Yesterday I wrote to you to inform you that Singapore Airline is updated their reservation systems on July 6th and 7th. Singapore airlines will join over 115 airlines that currently use the Amadeus Altéa suite syste, in fact the majority of Star Alliance carriers already uses this system (17 as of October of 2011) and with SIA upgraded this month, it willcloser align SIA with the rest of the Star Alliance carriers. Although the upgrade is probably overall good, two negative ...
Attention Singapore Airlines (SIA) flyers! On July 7th Singapore Airlines will shut down their current reservation system and not come back online until July 8th! From the 7th of July at 6pm Singapore local (6am Est) time to July 8th at 10pm (10am EST) SIA will transition from their current reservation system to a newly updated reservation system. During this 30 hour period NO reservations will be able to be booked neither via Singaporeair.com or silkair.com nor via the call centers, ...
