- Airbus wants aircraft to transmit important data via ground or satellite to airlines, to decrease reliance on black boxes. No doubt this has been prompted by Air France Flight 447. (Tip of the hat to David Vanderhoof)
- From Benet Wilson’s weekly “Strange but True Aviation News“: A German pilot got drunk, started flying, drank more while inflight, and then sang songs to controllers. Nice.
- The WSJ has a great article about changes in food offerings in economy.
- Southwest has had some recent maintenance issues, and Cranky has a great update.
- The WTO has made a ruling saying that some aid given to Airbus from European countries was illegal. But this thing is far from over – a final decision is still coming, and the appeals process can last for years.
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- Boeing made a 787 announcement this week, so, of course, Jon Ostrower has an excellent write-up.
- Ben has started his latest trip report. If past reports are any indication, it’ll be great!
- Flight has an update on the CSeries.
- V Australia lost money in its first few months of existence – not really surprising.
- Air Berlin is mulling a cancellation of its 787 orders.
- Will production resume on the Eclipse 500? Perhaps.
- Aw, look! It’s the cute little A318 for British Airways! The airline will use two A318s to fly between London City Airport and JFK.
- Premium traffic was down over 20% in June, and that’s good. Brett Snyder tells us why.
- Air France had to scrap plans to acquire Czech Airlines.
- As usual, Jon Ostrower has a very informative 787 update.
- Alaska still thinks Virgin America is in violation of rules regulating foreign ownership of airlines (big shocker).
- Row 44 has been approved by the FCC! This paves the way for Alaska and Southwest to roll out Wi-Fi for their entire fleets, if they choose to do so.
- US Airways is giving out free silver status that will last 90 days, and then extending that if one flies 7,500 miles or ten segments. Hmmm. I might feel a mileage run coming!
- My friend Jon Heckman has a new blog. Check it out here.
- Take a look at this video of Lufthansa CityLine. Great stuff! (Found via Ben)
- PlaneBuzz had a good post on the Southwest-Frontier deal.
- Aer Lingus has shifted around its A330 and A350 delivery schedule.
- Well, I can’t say I’d ever do it, but Gray over at Wing and a Prayer has a good introduction to churning.
- One Mile at a Time talks about the overhaul of JetBlue’s TrueBlue program, and he links to another great blog post on it.
- Marshall Jackson has one of his “random musings” posts, and it’s really good.
- Awww. JFK recently turned 61. Fish has the details.
- Oshkosh was this week, and Jon Ostrower was able to interview Tom Enders, the CEO of Airbus.
- Republic’s acquisition of Midwest is now complete.
- American is hiking its bag fees. And unlike the other carriers, it’s not charging less for those who pay online.
- United has reached its target for flight attendant furloughs.
- You can find episode two of the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast here.
- British Airways’ OpenSkies subsidiary is dropping the JFK-AMS route.
- Cranky has a good post on United’s cash position.
- As always, PlaneBuzz has great earnings summaries. You can see the two of them here and here.
- The laviators are finally getting the media attention they deserve!
- Grant and Steve, who do the Australia Desk for the Airplane Geeks, have started their own podcast, Plane Crazy Down Under. Check it out!
- Continental CEO Larry Kellner will be leaving the company at the end of the year.
- AdAge has a great article on airlines and Twitter.
- Flight has an update from the NTSB on Continental 1404.
- Anna.Aero has a great article comparing the expansion strategies of Ryanair and easyJet.
- Sad – Southwest is no longer printing timetables. As Cranky put it, airline dorks died a little inside. But, at least Southwest’s Brian Lusk shared some of his collection while telling us the bad news.
- I should have had this last week but forgot. Everything that Jon Ostrower writes is great, but this commentary on the second anniversary of the rollout is one of my favorites.
- On the second anniversary of the 787 rollout, Jon Ostrower wrote a fantastic piece.
- Go read the “crew confessions” page on Heather Poole’s website. It’s just hilarious.
- From the WSJ this week: Does Obama Want to Own the Airlines?
- Pet Airways is getting ready for its launch next week.
- I already wrote about the Delta-Virgin Blue partnership, here’s Cranky’s take.
- If by some chance you haven’t seen “United Breaks Guitars,” take a look here!
- Starting August 2nd, JFK will resume having one weekly charter flight to Cuba.
- The always-informative Airline Route blog has some updates about Delta’s international service.
- FlightBlogger reported this week that Boeing is set to purchase the 787 operations of Vought Aircraft Industries, a 787 supplier. Check out all the details here.
- Apparently, the DOJ isn’t so hot on Continental receiving anti-trust immunity.
- Fellow BoardingArea blogger Marshall Jackson has an interesting post about his experiences with the TSA at Washington Dulles.
- Some new information about the Air France 447 crash has been released this week.
- Looking for a European market that had airline traffic growth in May? How about Latvia? Anna.aero has some very interesting traffic statistics.
- The climate bill passed the House by a pretty close margin yesterday, the ATA had a couple of interesting press releases about it. (Here and here.)
- Qantas canceled 15 787 orders and deferred 15 more. Not surprisingly, Jon Ostrower has all the details.
- The first flight of the 787 was pushed back again this week. Jon has all the details on that one, too.
- Oh, look, O’Leary has a new idea: passengers will carry bags to the aircraft. O’Leary also said that “this is so much fun. I love recessions. You get the chance to kick the —- out of everybody.”
- WestJet has some plans to utilize Twitter. (Finally – for awhile there it seemed they were only updating sporadically.)
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