Share this story Canada is heading into its August long weekend with a familiar knot in its stomach: another airline, another strike clock ticking. On 30 July, the flight attendants who staff WestJet’s cabins served the airline with 72 hours’ strike...
Share this story For years, flying Allegiant meant paying for everything that was not the seat itself — the carry-on, the boarding pass at the airport, and yes, the cup of soda. That is the whole point of an ultra-low-cost carrier: a rock-bottom fare, then a...
Share this story In the early 1960s, two American giants owned the jet age: Boeing’s 707 and the Douglas DC-8. Convair, a division of General Dynamics, decided it could not out-size them — so it tried to out-run them.The result was the Convair 990...
Share this story Doug White was having the worst week of his life. He, his wife Terri and their two daughters were flying home to Louisiana from Florida, where they had just buried his brother. It was Easter Sunday, 2009. White, a 56-year-old private pilot who had...
Share this story At 08:47 on the morning of 27 December 1991, a nearly new SAS MD-81 lifted off from a frozen Stockholm-Arlanda. It had sat out the night in near-freezing air with cold fuel chilling its wings, and a layer of clear ice — invisible, glass-smooth...
Share this story On the afternoon of 24 May 1988, a nearly new Boeing 737-300 was threading between thunderstorm cells on approach to New Orleans. In the left seat sat Captain Carlos Dárdano — twenty-nine years old, and flying with one eye, the other lost...
Share this story For twenty years the Atlantic had been killing balloonists. Since 1958, five men had died trying to drift across it, and every attempt — more than a dozen of them — had ended in the sea. Then, in August 1978, three amateurs from Albuquerque climbed...
Comparte esta historia Portugal ha vuelto a poner a la venta su aerolínea nacional, y el 29 de julio de 2026 dos de los tres megagrupos aéreos europeos mostraron sus cartas. Air France-KLM y Lufthansa Group presentaron ofertas vinculantes para adquirir una participación en TAP Air Portugal. El...
Comparte esta historia El 30 de julio de 2026, el gobierno de la India comunicó al Parlamento algo que, más de un año después del desastre del vuelo 171 de Air India, solo dificulta aún más la resolución del misterio central: los interruptores de control de combustible del Boeing 787, los mismos componentes en el...
Comparte esta historia El 6 de julio de 2026, el vuelo BA919 de British Airways procedente de Düsseldorf se encontraba en su aproximación inicial a la pista 27L del aeropuerto de Londres Heathrow cuando la aeronave, un Airbus A320-232 con matrícula G-EUUN, perdió una información en la que la mayoría de los pasajeros nunca piensan:...
Comparte esta historia. Cada avión a reacción de ala en flecha en el que hayas volado alguna vez lleva un pequeño e incansable sistema de automatización cuya única función es evitar que la aeronave se balancee. El movimiento que suprime tiene un nombre que suena casi cómico: balanceo holandés. No es ni una pérdida de sustentación ni...
Share this story Every so often an aeroplane arrives that is so obviously ahead of its moment that it embarrasses everything parked next to it. In October 1934, on a new airfield at Mildenhall in Suffolk, three of them lined up on the same morning. They were de...
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