ANA Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Flights to Resume   Louisville, KY – May 9, 2013 (FlyersPulse.com): Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways, or ANA, will resume Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flights on June 1, 2013. The 787 Dreamliner will also return to United Airlines ‘Friendly Skies’ on the same day. Other Boeing 787 operators including Qatar Airways and [...]

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January 17, 2013 – (Louisville, KY): Within 15 minutes of exiting the US Customs Hall at San Francisco International Airport yesterday, I receive news the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is grounding the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. I had just arrived from Tokyo only to repeat the day of January 16th, thanks to Boeing, ANA, and [...]

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US Airways Finalizes Sao Paulo Route Sao Paulo has been in the works for awhile with US Airways. The destination will be added to US Airways route map with flights between their hub in Charlotte (CLT) to Sao Paulo (GRU) beginning on May 5, 2013. This will become US Airways’ second destination in South America [...]

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Largest Fleet Equipped with In-Flight Internet Delta Air Lines, based at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Intl Airport (ATL) was the first to claim dibs on having the largest fleet of aircraft equipped with Internet service. However, it’s only their domestic fleet equipped with Broadband Internet via GoGo WiFi (WLAN), including larger regional jet aircraft. The WiFi equipped [...]

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Japan Airlines Serves up Kentucky Fried Chicken Kentucky Fried Chicken is said to be widely popular in Japan, especially during the Christmas season. As the Christmas season is near, Japan Airlines (JAL) and Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan (KFC) have teamed up to provide the original “AIR KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN” dish to passengers in Economy and [...]

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Boeing 747-8-I to Fly Frankfurt to LAX If you look up over the Los Angeles skies and you see a Lufthansa Bird, you may just be looking at the new “Jumbo” Queen of the Skies – the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. Lufthansa just received delivery of their fourth Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental with with the registration D-ABYF. [...]

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airberlin Files Suit Over Postponement of Opening Berlin Brandenburg (BER) Germany’s airberlin filed a request for a declaratory judgment against the Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH at Potsdam Regional Court. airberlin is Germany’s second largest airline and a member of the oneworld alliance, with close ties toEtihad Airways. In this action, airberlin is seeking judicial confirmation [...]

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Frankfurt Airport’s new Pier A-Plus Opens The new Pier A-Plus – expanding 2,624 feet in length – the westward expansion of Terminal 1 opens today, October 10, 2012, after four years of construction. As flight operations start at the new pier, the expansion allows Germany’s largest hub airport to serve six million additional passengers per [...]

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The new build Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the rave of the airline industry at the moment as Boeing ramps up production and makes additional deliveries of the revolutionary, composite aircraft. Prior to entering service, United is taking the aircraft through providing and certification flights. Yesterday, September 26, United took the above aircraft on a 5 [...]

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Qantas to Establish Dubai Hub with Emirates With the proliferation of low cost carrier’s in the Australian market and the need for better Asian services, Qantas and Emirates have announced they’ll be forming a global aviation partnership to provide consumers a seamless Australian and International route network. Currently, all Qantas European services fly via points [...]

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