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

Airlines publish route maps on their websites and their in-flight magazines to advertise where they fly. An airline omitting a destination they service, with their aircraft and their crew, from their route map makes little sense, but Egyptair’s newly released route map omits a single destination … Israel’s Tel Aviv. Egyptair’s new route map shows [...]

During a time of revolution, foreign military intervention, no fly zones, economic sanctions and the senseless killing of those who simply want their voice to be heard it may be hard to find the silver lining in anything, especially a story on airlines … but in Libya there is the potential for a stronger national [...]

On October 31 2010 Air India bid farewell to its short-lived European hub at Frankfurt Airport, in Germany.   Air India had established a hub in Frankfurt only 17 months before its closure, however despite referring to the Frankfurt hub as “crucial” the airlines’ expansion, Air India quickly determined that the hub inefficient. With the airline [...]

Israel’s Constitution defines the nation as a “Jewish and Democratic State,” as such the formerly state owned national airline, El Al Israel Airlines, does not fly on The Sabbath. To get around Sabbath travel restrictions and service certain European destinations, Sun d’Or was established on the 1st of October 1977 (originally as El Al Charter [...]

How do airports within a United Nations sanctioned No Fly Zone continue to show regularly scheduled flights? How do airlines banned from entering the European Union due to political sanctions show scheduled flights into and out of the European Union? The answer can be summed up in three words … The Libyan Government. I am [...]

Last Thursday, the 17th of March, Sendai Airport amazingly opened nearly 5,000 feet of Runway 9/27 that had been washed over and covered in debris from a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake, and ensuing tsunami. The clearing of almost 5,000 feet of runway allowed for military relief flights to begin operating from the airport. As of [...]

It’s probably best to start this post with the two questions you’ll have at the end of this post 1) How does an airline not notice it is overpaying its CEO US$4,700,000 in bonuses over four years? 2) Why does an airline think its Board of Director’s insurance company should repay US$1,000,000 of that back [...]

Six days ago an 8.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan and a triggered a tsunami that washed over Sendai Airport, in the Miyagi Prefecture, 166 miles north of Narita Airport, turning the airport into a lake. As of today construction crews have cleared nearly 5,000 feet of runway 9/27, which is 9,842 feet in length. The [...]

India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has recently released a list of fifty-six airline pilots flying in India that have failed sobriety tests over the past two years.   This release, while disturbing unto itself isn’t the surprising part of the story … … the surprising part of the story is that twenty thee of the pilots [...]

There are many actions mother nature can inflict to grind travel to a halt, wind, ice, turbulence, lightening … but today Mother Nature unleashed one of the most unpredictable and devastating actions in Japan, a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake. While this earthquake caused mass transit in Tokyo to stop entirely, something that almost never happens [...]