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

Six months after a  NATO enforced No Fly Zone was established in the skies over Libya regular airline service is set to return this week.   While Libya’s two national flag carriers, Libyan Arab Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways, remain grounded, Royal Jordanian intends to restart service from Amman to Benghazi and Tripoli.   Royal Jordanian expects [...]

On the September 14th 2001 I made a decision that I would stop covering the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States from New York City. I informed the editors I was working with that I wanted to continue covering the larger story of the September 11th attacks, but I wanted to seek [...]

Every year on September 11th since 2002 the question has been asked “where were you …“   September 11th 2001 is a defining moment in American history, it is an event that will be a significant factor in the nation’s history for generations to come, the events of that day set into motion three-and-a-half years of [...]

Say what you will about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), but the agency is made up of people and those people are just like you and I. The within the TSA are parents, neighbors, someone’s brother, sister, child … and they share a common experience of where they were on September 11th 2001 and what [...]

Getting from the ‘land side’ to the ‘air side’ of an airport security checkpoint can be frustrating, especially for infrequent flyers. Airport security checkpoints in the US and around the world may have different designs, but the process of getting through a checkpoint with your belonging is always the same.   This reader mail comes [...]

There are many dedicated airline social media executors and social media directors. Those running an airline’s social media successfully are a driven breed, but one airline’s Head of Social Media took his loyalty to his airline one step further than most …   … one week ago today SAS’s Facebook page reached its 100,000th Like [...]

There is the old saying that someone should not count their chickens before they hatch … although in the case of Air India it seems that not only did the airline believe they’d be admitted into Star Alliance on the 31st of July, many of the alliance’s member airlines believed Air India would be joining [...]

This past Friday Saudi Arabian media and social media sources began reporting that an engine had fallen from a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747′s wing causing the aircraft to crash in the sparsely populated Rub Al Khali Desert. Further reports spreading through out various social media channels stated that there were fatalities and significant difficulties [...]

For more than a year there has been speculation and doubt regarding Air Zimbabwe’s claims that the airline has acquired two Airbus A340 long haul aircraft.   As Air Zimbabwe continued to discuss the acquisition of the Airbus A340 aircraft over the past year, there were cracks in the story, such as the variant of [...]

There are some advantages to living in a place where the beach is at the end of your street … for starters I have a great plane spotting view for watching long haul aircraft flying to and from over the Atlantic, I frequently have a front row seat to watching US Coast Guard and Army [...]