Just a horrible story:
A small claims court has ordered Air Canada to pay a couple $10,000, after an overbooked flight resulted in the two being sent to multiple Canadian airports under the promise of a replacement flight that never materialized, ruining a vacation that had been planned for years.
It seems a Mexican was trying to hijack a flight to go from Mexico to the US. Given currently politics that seems a bit odd.
Ryanair, Eurowings und Condor streichen nach Erhöhung der Flughafengebühren zahlreiche Abflüge, etwa nach Köln. Das ist Gewinn für den Klimaschutz.#FlughafenHamburg #Umweltschutz #Airline #Klima #Klimawandel #Hamburg #Nord #Schwerpunkt
Billigairlines ist Hamburg zu teuer: Geht doch!
Airlines usually strictly prohibit rodents onboard because the animals can chew through electrical wiring, key to the operation of a plane.
No sooner have airports introduced new scanning machines so you don’t need to unpack your carry-on bags, than a trend emerges where you photograph all your loose items in your airport security tray.
The “airport tray aesthetic” has taken off on TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest as people share artfully arranged shots of their sunglasses, shoes, toiletries and reading material inside the regulation polypropylene dishes.
Don’t expect crumpled plastic bags stuffed with toothpaste and Pepto-Bismol. This is aspirational travel, where your 35mm film camera nestles between your vintage loafers and your first-edition copy of “On the Road.”
#CNN #News #travel #GenZ #airport #airline #flight #aviation
The cost of crappy software:
“If you’re going to have priority access to the Delta ecosystem in terms of technology, you’ve got to test this stuff,” Bastian said. “You can’t come into a mission critical 24/7 operation and tell us we have a bug. It doesn’t work.”
The computer problems at Delta knocked its crucial crew tracking system off line for the better part of a week, making it impossible for the company to find pilots and flight attendants it needed to fly its aircraft. While other airlines were quick to resume normal operations after the CrowdStrike outage, Delta was forced to cancel about 30% of its schedule over five days, leaving an estimated half-million passengers stranded. It took many days after that to re-book affected passengers on other flights and return their checked bags.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back on social media, “We just issued a rule requiring airlines to inform you, before you buy a ticket, of fees they will charge you. Now the airline lobby is suing us, saying that if you have the right to that information it will ‘confuse’ you. For once, I am speechless.”
...and one more photos to complete my shots of #Vancouver posted over the last three days. This photo was taken early Monday morning in the typical Vancouver pouring rain and shows our Porter Airlines Embraer E195-E2 #airliner at the gate, ready to load for the trip home, just before boarding. However, as always, up at cruising altitude the sun was shining!
The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January.
The F.A.A. also conducted 13 product audits for the part of the inquiry that focused on #SpiritAeroSystems, which makes the fuselage, or body, of the 737 Max. Six of those audits resulted in passing grades, and seven resulted in failing ones, the presentation said.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/faa-audit-boeing-737-max.html
#faa #security #flight #airline #fail #problem #economy #news #politics #qa
and when some are:
As a result, this #check job that should find minimal defects has in the past 365 calendar days recorded 392 nonconforming findings on 737 mid fuselage door installations...
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In Boeing production speak, this is a “process failure”. For an A&P mechanic at an #airline, this would be called “federal #crime”.
#flight #plane #security #qa #fail #problem #news #quality #economy #capitalism
A good article by Russ Niles on #AVweb. The story deals with #aviation, but is widely applicable and well argued.
One of the most interesting, frustrating, entertaining and occasionally frightening tasks of the modern-day editor is monitoring the comments on the stories we run. Most outlets have disabled comments because it’s just too much damn work to filter out the mean, hateful and irrelevant missives that inevitably appear no matter what the topic. It must be all Trump’s fault. Or wait, maybe it’s Biden’s.
#diversity #minorities #airline #airlines #aircraft #flying #bigots #bigotry
#Quote The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
#Pilots Warns of #Airline Industry #Disaster Due to #COVID-19 #Vaccines
Captain Shane Murdock, a pilot for more than 40 years, has found official data that back up his claim of impending #global #catastrophe:
• There was a 272% rise in mayday calls in 2022, with a 386% surge in early 2023 (see chart).
• There was also an unprecedented 126% increase in flight restrictions due to medical limitations.
Murdock thinks some pilots are ticking time bombs and claims many are not declaring ill-health. He said:
"They are not reporting brain fog, heart flutters, and dizzy spells because they don’t want to lose their jobs."
Cpt Murdock thinks lack of action can have only one result. Many planes make #emergency landings because of pilot incapacitations. He warned:
"Disasters will occur, and both aircrew and the traveling public will die unnecessarily."
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#airline #travelproblems
Pilot who allegedly tried to shut off engines hadn't slept in 40 hours: Authorities
He also allegedly discussed using psychedelic mushrooms, the complaint said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/details-emerge-after-off-duty-pilot-allegedly-shut/story?id=104247388
#airline #travel #problems
Off-duty pilot charged with 83 counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight
https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-flight-diverted-after-credible-security-threat/story?id=104223059
