Flying With Fish The Blog for Those Who Fly & Those Who Want to Fly Smarter

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 30/11/2009 – FAA Allows Aircraft With Known Engine Problem To Keep Flying Just over a year ago I wrote about a US Federal Agency responsible for protecting airline passengers failing to do the responsible thing by grounding aircraft with a known potentially catastrophic in this post: 16/10/2008 – NTSB Finds [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 29/11/2009 – A Musical Aviation Interlude To East Into The Holiday Season The Thanksgiving holiday break is over for those of us in the United States…its time to briefly ease back into work before the December holidays are upon us. The temperatures are colder outside (unless of course you are [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 19/11/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : Jetset Among travellers, frequent travellers, leisure travellers and any other traveller you can imagine, there is one unifying bond…this bond is a significant dislike of airport security.  I know how airport security works, I even think there are some excellent airport security [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 19/11/2009 – Airline Executives, Social Media & E-Mail Reply-All Blunders Back in the summer of 2007 Ben Baldanza, the CEO of Spirit Airlines, came to gain some notoriety for accidentally sending an internal e-mail regarding a disgruntled passenger to the passenger directly rather than only to the company’s internal corporate [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 18/11/2009 – Flying With Fish on Dear Sky Steward Talk Radio Show Today has been an interesting day for Flying With Fish. This morning started off with a 1-hour appearance on a live-broadcast show discussing converging trends in the airline industry and this evening finished up appearing as a guest [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 18/11/2009 – A Detailed Audio & Visual Sequence Of Events Of US Airways 1549 Landing In The Hudson River On January 15th 2009 US Airways Flight 1549, operating an Airbus A320-214 was cleared for take from New York’s LaGuardia Airport at 15:24:56, from Runway 4. At 15:31 the Airbus A320 [...]

Web: www.iag-inc.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 17/11/2009 – Airline & Travel Industry Social Media Crisis Communications Webinar The way information is dispersed has changed rapidly in the past few years. Gone are the days of broadcast & print news media relaying a story to impact public perception. When a crisis affects the travel & airline industry, [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 16/11/2009 – A Guest Posts From One Of My Favourite Bloggers : The Flying Pinto – The Secret Recipe For First Class Cookies…SHHHH About two months ago The Flying Pinto made her debut on Flying With Fish as guest blogger writing “Insights & Humour From A Flight Attendant.” Today Sara, [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/11/2009 – Airbus Introduces “Sharklets” (Could I Resist Writing About A Sharklet?) Lets face it…if you’ve been called “Fish” for the better part of the past 30 years could you resist writing about a “Sharklet?” You’d probably smile also if you heard that aircraft manufacturer Airbus introduced “Sharklets” for their [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 13/11/2009 – How Can An Airline Mock-Drill Spread Real Fear & Panic? Airlines and airports regularly hold mock disasters drills, these drills are important. Disaster drills teach fire-rescue professionals how to react to place crashes, fires, and medical emergencies and keep them ready to respond to real incidents. During some [...]