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

Earlier this week NYCAviation.com’s newly appointed co-editor Jason Rabinowitz (by the way, Mazel Tov Jason!) wrote about New York JFK International Airport’s T3, the former PanAm Worldport, facing the wrecking ball.  Reading his piece on the efforts to save JFK’s T3 reminded me of where it all began for me.   Every AvGeek, Plane Spotter, [...]

If you read Southwest Airlines’ Nuts About Southwest Blog then you are probably familiar with the regular Flashback Fridays series … well it is Friday and sadly it is time to flashback on the man who brought us these flashbacks.   Brian Lusk, Southwest Airlines’ in house historian, who had been with Southwest Airlines for [...]

I get emails about airlines, airplanes and airports fairly often, but rarely if ever about airline blogging. Today’s reader mail comes from Ross Mitchell who writes, “Are airline bloggers competitive with each other, always trying to beat each other to be the top of the pile? I fly often, enjoy my time in airports and [...]

Yesterday Chris Elliott, a noted consumer advocate and travel blogger … who you should all be reading … wrote a blog post entitled ‘Are airlines bending the truth about weather delays?’, which got me thinking about all my delayed and canceled flights.   I’m not going to go into the rules surrounding passenger compensation, or [...]

I spent this afternoon at New York JFK Airport’s Terminal 8 with a number of journalists, bloggers and airline corporate communications people discussing airlines, airplanes, new liveries, mergers and every other related topic, favourite topics of Matt Molnar, co-founder of the popular aviation site NYCAviation.com. Many of the people I was with at JFK Airport [...]

When you sit in the airport staring out the windows at all the planes parked at their gates what area of the airport are you looking at? The Ramp? The Apron? The Tarmac?   The answer is … not the tarmac. Tarmac, while commonly used as a term to describe where airplanes are parked, is [...]

American Airlines will officially unveil its new aircraft livery in 15 minutes, at 9:00am CST, replacing their decades old classic livery … change can be good or bad.   What is your opinion of the airline’s new livery?     Happy Flying!   @flyingwithfish

In just 30 minutes American Airlines will officially reveal its new branding, logo and livery, replacing its classic branding we have all come to know over the past few decades.   But why wait those long 30 minutes when I can reveal to you the airline’s new branding logo, font and imagery right now?   [...]

Its that time of the year again … the last hours of this year are dwindling fast … the end of the year is near.   Outside my window the snow has finally fallen, being whipped around in the wind, while at this moment friends in Australia are already three hours into the New Year [...]

Tailhooks on military aircraft are a common sight … although we tend to only think of them as being part of aircraft landing on aircraft carriers, not those landing on runways.   This Reader Mail comes from Damian Willis in the Great White North (aka: Canada) who asks, “I recently spent some time watching US Air [...]