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Sightseeing Flight of Grand Canyon with Landing: From the sensation of lift-off to the excitement of soaring through the Grand Canyon, this tour will be a unique and spectacular experience.
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Southwest Airlines plans to boost its Hawaii service in late January, with new daily nonstop flights from California to Kauai and the Big Island, and its first flights from Sacramento to Honolulu. … More Southwest Airlines Hawaii Expansion
Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic are making plans to spread their wings to 84 new destinations in their largest route expansion to date. These will be to destinations in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia, as it seeks to challenge British Airways market dominance in London. … More Virgin Atlantic Expansion Plans
Labor Day Weekend Las Vegas Airport conducted a quiet roll out of the newest TSA Technology with United Airlines and LAS Airport being the launch customer for North America. It is being touted in the media as “Innovation Check Point” which will utilize a new modernized version of the previous body scanners. EU’s 27 member nations, the prohibition is necessary “in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens’ health and safety.”X-ray body scanners, which use “backscatter” ionized radiation technology, emit enough radiation to theoretically damage DNA and cause cancer. … More New TSA Privacy and Health Concerns
TAP Air Portugal has begun new service from its hub in Lisbon to San Francisco with the brand new Airbus A330-900neo jet. The new service to San Francisco (SFO) marks the flag carrier’s first non-stop service to exist between Portugal and the U.S. West Coast. The flight departs Lisbon at 10:00 a.m. and arrives into SFO at 2:40 p.m. The flight to Lisbon departs SFO at 4:10 p.m. and arrives at 11:35 a.m. … More TAP Air Portugal: New Nonstop Service San Francisco to Lisbon
Eastern Airlines: New Nonstop Service JFK New York to Guayaquil Ecuador. This return of “The Wings of Man” and “The Great Silver Fleet” will be coming to an airport near you in the months ahead. … More Eastern Airlines: New Nonstop Service JFK New York to Guayaquil Ecuador
Eurowings is expanding new nonstop service from three major German Cities to Las Vegas. This will create a new large gain in German tourism for the Las Vegas travel market next year. It will also provide some additional transatlantic nonstop travel options for locals living in Las Vegas to travel for vacation to Europe without having to connect through expensive and tedious LAX. … More Eurowings: New Nonstop Services Dusseldorf, Munich & Frankfurt to Las Vegas
Modern day’s aviation Fly by Wire is today’s newest battle of Man versus Machine. “The captain of Qantas Flight 72 has opened up for the first time about the day the automation of a plane he was in charge of ‘went psycho’ and repeatedly nose-dived towards the Indian Ocean. More than 100 people were injured when the pilots of the flight, carrying 303 passengers and 12 crew members from Singapore to Perth, lost control of the aircraft on October 7, 2008. … More Fly by Wire: 2001 Space Odyssey
There are 7 “Freedom of the Air” commercial aviation rights. The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting the airline’s own country. It is the right to carry passengers from one’s own country to a second country, and from that country to a third country. … More Fifth Freedom Flights: The US Political Debate
The new routes won’t be JetBlue’s first foray into international markets. It currently services nearly two dozen countries from the US, with flights as far south as Ecuador and Peru. However, this will be its first venture into Europe. JetBlue is evaluating these International City Pairs for the use of the new transatlantic aircraft: JFK-LIM, JFK-CUZ, MCO-VCP, MCO-LIM, MCO-EZE, MCO-SCL, JFK-FCO, JFK-CDG, JFK-DUB, JFK-FCO, JFK-MAD, JFK-MXP, JFK-BCN, LAX-LIM, LAX-GIG. … More JetBlue Transatlantic Expansion 2021
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