A Singapore Airlines pilot was caught with child pornography on his laptop when he tried to enter Australia after working a flight to Adelaide.  He was fined about $10,000 and released, which sounds like a pathetically weak sentence considering what he had on his computer.  No word on whether he was fired.

JetBlue’s CEO said in a recent interview that it plans to offer an “enhanced cabin” aimed at business travelers when it receives new A320s next month.  The cabin at the front of the plane will offer additional legroom for a higher price (I believe we used to call this “first class.”)  Business passengers make up [...]

A few years back, Indian Airlines fired a crew member for wearing a handlebar mustache (which he had been wearing since 1968, which suggests perhaps he should’ve shaved the mustache by the time he was fired in 2001).  Now, the Indian supreme court is getting involved and seems to be siding with mustache man, saying [...]

Two pieces of bad news for SilverJet (and passengers who like the airline):
1) Eos’ announcement that it’s launching Dubai flights sent SilverJet’s stock reeling yesterday, down as much as 23% as investors believe that the struggling carrier won’t survive a drawn out fight with another airline.
2) A company that lent SilverJet GBP10 million last year [...]

Eos has announced that it will launch flights between Newark and London-Stansted in May and between Stansted and Dubai in July.  You may be saying to yourself, that’s funny, because doesn’t SilverJet already fly between those cities?  Yes, yes they do.  Eos received some funding from some Middle Eastern sources last year, and it wouldn’t [...]

Despite decent yields on the route, Skybus will drop flights to Oakland this summer due to increasing fuel prices.  The airline has stopped flying to San Diego and Bellingham (WA), and cut the number of Burbank flights to 1, deciding instead to use aircraft on shorterhaul routes where less fuel is burned.  That said, their [...]

A quick follow-up to the story about British Airways launching all-business class service between London (City) and New York:  The flights will need to make a fueling stop (likely at Shannon, Ireland) on the westbound trips because weight restrictions at London City will limit the amount of fuel the A318 can carry.  In the Trying [...]

Airline reservations systems are notoriously complex — the integration of US Airways’ with America West’s was a major issue when the two carriers merged.
But it’s still a bit of a surprise to read that Ryanair will shut its website for 3 days (Feb 22-25) as they switch to a new booking system.  The move will [...]

Back from a few days R&R and I’ll have regular stuff tomorrow, but I wanted to share 2 trip-related things that may be of interest…
- I believe I flew on the world’s shortest scheduled commercial flight — a 10am flight from Ambergris Caye to Caye Caulker that is scheduled to arrive at 10:05am.  We arrived [...]

The OTR offices will be closed Monday-Wednesday so that the staff can take a much needed break in Belize.  We’ll be back on Thursday…see you then.