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

March 31st 2002 was an unusual day; Switzerland lost its 71-year-old national flag carrier and at the same time gained a new national flag carrier. Swissair was established on the 26th of March 1931 with the merger of Balair and Ad Astra Aero. While the airline had a rocky start, only flying during the summer [...]

While you might not know the name Harry Shearer you certainly know his voice … as he is best known as the voice of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Lenny, Otto, Mr. Smithers,  Dr. Hibbert and countless others on The Simpsons for more than 20 years. Not a fan of The Simpson (and is [...]

Irish low cost carrier Ryanair can be seen in many different ways, innovative, controversial, evil, profitable, brilliant, dastardly … but if nothing else the airline has forged its own path and certainly made a name for itself doing things other airlines only dream about or don’t dare do. Today Ryanair has announced it that this [...]

Last week it came to light that Air India was exploring Ireland’s Dublin Airport as a new Euro Hub, which didn’t make a lot of sense, which I wrote about in this post – Air India’s Search For A Euro Hub in Dublin…but why? As of today however Air India is presenting their search for [...]

EDITED ON 28-MARCH-2011 at 7:05PM EST – Edited to correct the following, Boeing 737-800 aircraft with Big Bin overhead bins hold 114 “standard” sized bags and Sky Interior overhead bins hold 118. This information was reversed originally. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the new Boeing Sky Interior being fitting into its new [...]

Back in May 2009 Air New Zealand released an ad that got everyone’s attention, this ad features crew, staff and the CEO wearing nothing.  Well OK those in the ad are wearing body paint, but that’s it.  How could Air New Zealand top featuring its staff nude in its ads? That is a difficult act [...]

The topic of passengers being questioned by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) when flying with cash comes up somewhat often and it’s a truly troubling question. In the past week I was contacted by two travelers who encountered similar TSA incidents of being questioned regarding flying with cash at two different airports, headed to two [...]

I am well aware that many who read Flying With Fish are airline and travel enthusiasts and quite a few photogs wondering where my content for them has gone (and I’ll have some for them shortly) … but there are also quite a few airplane geeks who like the hardcore geek content. Well … Flying [...]

There are all sorts of impressive statistics for commercial airliners, cost per available seat mile, cost per block hour, how many hours of flight per incident, how many operators fly a specific aircraft, types of variants of aircraft … but sometimes its difficult to put all these numbers into perspective. First the basics, the Boeing [...]

Yesterday on Flying With Fish I wrote about Egyptair’s new route map leaving Tel Aviv blank on its route map, despite the airline flying there in this post – Politics & Airline Route Maps … Egyptair Omits Israel This morning Egyptair sent me two messages via Twitter regarding this omission.  The first Tweet from @FlyEgyptair [...]