On This Day in Aviation History: December 8th
Chicago's Midway Airport suffers crashes of Southwest Flight 1248 in 2005 and United Flight 553 in 1972. In 1987, a Peruvian football club crashes into the Pacific ocean with only the pilot surviving, an Olympic Airways DC-6 cr...
Avianova Ends Service Barely a Year After Producing Greatest Airline Commercial Ever
Russian low-cost carrier Avianova ended all flights Monday and will soon file for bankruptcy after U.S.-based Indigo Partners pulled funding from the two-year-old airline.
What They Don’t Teach You in Ground School, Part I: Pushy Corporate Clients
Desperate pilots don’t stay pilots long. In the short term, they may be in the air, but in the long run, the Client Factor will make a decision for them that they simply can’t live with.
Airbus Sells 50 More A320neo Jets to ALAFCO
Airbus announced at the Dubai Airshow on Monday that Kuwaiti leasing concern ALAFCO has committed to an additional 50 A320neo-family aircraft, following an order for 30 of the aircraft placed earlier this year.
American Flight Makes Two Emergency Landings Enroute to London
Reports of another nightmarish flight on American, but at least it's not completely their fault this time.