Chinese Airline Considers Installing Hannibal Lecter-Style “Standing Seats”
Shanghai-based Spring Airlines wants to remove all the seats from its jets. The low-cost carrier has 13 Airbus A320s, but the lengthy wait for new aircraft is making it difficult to keep up with surging demand. A seatless plane...
Happy Birthday Captain Sully! January 23 in Aviation History
Chesley Sullenberger is born, Charles Lindbergh tells Congress to make peace with Hitler, a World Airways DC-10 crashes in Boston, more...
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...
Video: Former American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall Interviewed on Charlie Rose
The outspoken former CEO of American Airlines made an appearance on the Charlie Rose Show on Tuesday, where he shared insight about a number of issues, ranging from the failure of deregulation to the future of his bankrupt old ...
Russian Rocket Carrying Navigation Satellites Gets Lost, Arrives At Ground
Early Tuesday, a Russian Proton-M rocket with a payload of three satellites malfunctioned almost immediately after launch, crashing down back into the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three satellites were d...