I’ve been told that CRJs have been shipped by boat a few times across oceans....
Jump to postI work for a certain really big motor club as a tow truck operator, which we have travel agents under our services. I recently was talking with our agents about some plans for Kona actually; I asked her about what she thinks about hidden city fares on United. Oh boy, I got an earful! Her opinion in ...
Jump to postOne of my friends who is a USAF Vet took a few flights with them as a MAC charter during Desert Storm. He described those flights as great that when he had some vacation time, he flew JFK-LAX on them; he regretted it and on the return, flew TWA instead.
Jump to postThis whole incident seems like to me all parties could of handled it better and instead everything cascaded down.
I'm not a fan of United, but I see that the CEO is stepping in to want to make this right.
The major turning point into the use of CRW was United Airlines 173 back in 1978. While on approach to PDX, the indicator light for I think one of the rear wheels showed it wasn't down so the crew kept the plane in a holding pattern while they tried to address it, while failing to realize they were ...
Jump to postNice report! I want to go to Yellowknife someday and neat to find a old combi!
Jump to postWhat I seem to remember from US Department of Agriculture regulations is that YOU can actually not incinerate garbage from an international flight, but it has to be quarantined for a certain amount of time before its entered into the domestic trash system.
Jump to postI can't remember this, but due to the history of Coca Cola's early investors also creating Delta, Coke was first served by an airline in 1941 and a lot of the distribution teniques was developed by Coke and gave them a edge over Pepsi for years.
Jump to postAs a kid, I lived in Grenoble from 1989-1990-ish and we flew out of GNB a lot. That was when the original 1968 terminal building was being used, this building was the same size as the current structure, but it did have customs inside. I remember this because you went thru security in the customs arr...
Jump to postThe only scheduled carrier that I'm aware of that ever offered commercial sercvice out of HIO was Far West Airlines, twin prop service to OTH, MFR & BFI, this is an image of the only timetable & route map I've ever seen. http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/far.htm Far West Airlines? Oh ...
Jump to postCould HIO support airline service? Given the explosive growth at PDX, the Portland metro area, and that the west side has Nike, Intel, etc. if a few dailies to SFO, SEA, LAX on AS/VX could work. I know for a fact that QX has looked at HIO before for flights on Q's to SEA. There is no commercial ter...
Jump to postI guess our great photo poster SWA ramp person here will have less photos of the rare visitors from Boeing. A loss for Portland. The article is completely inaccurate on the facility closing. It is in fact not closing there is simply another company coming into paint the Boeings. So whoever wrote th...
Jump to postCurrent plan is to leave Penn Air at the B gates. The Port indicated that B can handle the additional ground loading with those new ramps that connect to the loading bridges. Well, given their codeshare relationship with AS that sure makes more sense than putting them in the middle of WN operations...
Jump to postI've met a few retired Pan Am captains over the years and I know they all told me Pan Am management seemed to not be able to figure out how to deal with rising fuel costs; I guess they didn't raise fares accordingly?
Jump to postI started flying in 1989 as a 4 year old, but some of these are ringing a bell with me. I remember changing names on tickets well as many family members did that over the phone; grandfather would sometimes not have an business partner flying with him and would change it over to my grandmother with a...
Jump to postI have seen lots of changes over the 26 plus years as a passenger and I have to say the old the that annoys me that I found out recently was that apparently, its now rude to recline your seat without asking first? It used to be the other way around; if you recline your seat, the person behind you sh...
Jump to postI asked one of my acquaintances who is an CBP Officer regarding RTW tickets and he says he's only twice seen a traveler with a RTW ticket when he was working out of ORD. Its considered a non-standard itinerary so differening on the airport your going into, it might be something new to the officer. T...
Jump to postI would like to see them try at least Canada...
Jump to postOne of my old coworkers is Russian; he said you were free to travel anywhere in the USSR pretty much plus some of its comrades in other countries; he thinks there was some restrictions to East Berlin, but not sure. However, with that said, he said that due to politics, you could be denied boarding a...
Jump to postI'm a a little familar with crossing the US/Canada border since I've done it on trains, cars, air, and boats; all modes possible. CBSA is looking into running inspections PRIOR to arrival on select road crossings under the "Beyond the Border" intitative which is the result of a renewed Can...
Jump to postFrom what I seem to remember from an article where an lawyer was interviewed during the US Airlines incident, was that it was advised of any air carrier to get a liquor license for where it has crew bases as the cabin crew is the one selling and selling alcohol to customers. At some point, this was ...
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