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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 [...]

On July 28 2011 Asiana Cargo Flight OZ 991, a Boeing 747-48EF/SCD, flying from Seoul’s Incheon International Airport (ICN) to Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport (PVG) reported a fire in the cargo hold then crashed into the sea roughly 65 miles west Jeju City, on Jeju Island, killing the two pilots on board, Sang-Gi Choi, 52 [...]

If you like commercial airliners there is one journalist you should be reading on a daily basis … Jon Ostrower. Jon, the brilliant author behind Flightglobal’s FlightBlogger, covers Boeing like no one else. Not only does Jon get into every nook-and-cranny of what is going on with Boeing’s commercial airplanes, but he does it a [...]

It is hard to pinpoint when Japan Airlines (JAL) started its downfall.  For more than fifty years JAL was the top airline in Japan and for a long time the top airline in Asia and one of the largest airlines in the world.  Even with competitor All Nippon Airways (ANA) being founded a year after [...]

As I have been delving further in combing still photography, video shooting and travel I have also been exploring new equipment to maximize my potential in creating images I want while reducing the amount of equipment I carry. In the process of checking out all sorts of gizmos, gadgets and lenses I found an unlikely [...]

This week’s reader mail comes from Annette up in Canada. Annette asks “What’s the difference between a code share and interline agreement between airlines?” Annette, in fact, a code-share and an interline agreement are quite different. I can go into depth, but that really doesn’t help travelers all that much … so I’ll stick with [...]

Anyone who moderate travel experience has heard all sorts of delay explanations announced. The most common delays and cancellations are simply “weather” or “mechanical” … but today and for the next few days one of the more rare natural disaster delays and cancellations reasons will be give to passengers throughout Europe … Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano [...]

8/2/2010 – The 747-8 : The Next Generation 747 Takes Its First Flight Today, at 12:39pm PST Boeing’s newest 747, the 747-8, roared down runway 34L and headed into the sky from Paine Field, just one day shy of the 41st anniversary of the first ever Boeing 747 flying. The new 747-8 is not only [...]

22/1/2010 – Happy 40th Birthday To The Boeing 747 Forty years ago today history was made as the iconic Boeing 747 took to the skies for its first revenue passenger flight. While Pan Am had intended for the first Boeing 747 revenue passenger flight to be on the 21st of January, an engine overheating delayed [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 7/02/2009 – US-Australia Fare Wars : Can Four Airlines Survive The Routes? Starting in February the lucrative marketing between California and Australia will begin a competitive shift that will again take another shift on the 1st of July. Come February 28th the link between Los Angeles (LAX) and Sydney (SYD), [...]