PORTER AIRLINES REVIEW BASICS: Airline: Porter Airlines Aircraft: Bombardier Q400 Route: Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (YTZ) to Montreal’“Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) Class: Economy Seats: 13B (aisle) and 15D (window) Length: About 70 minutes (each way) Cheers: Everyone gets treated like they are flying first class — including free wine and beer. Jeers: Some […]
This is a pretty slick video showing the ins and out of a Pan Am Boeing 747-100. It does not start out in English, but no worries, it turns into English and what you see is much more important than what you hear anyhow. From the control tower, to starting up the engines to the […]
“If it bleeds it leads” — a nice classic saying of writing sensational stories to get more traffic. When I first heard of small cracks being found on Qantas and Singapore Airlines A380s I read up on it and found it to be a non-issue and not really worthy of writing a story. The majority […]
I wish I had some additional news to share about Aviation Geekfest 2012, but right now the Future of Flight and I are still working things out and since nothing has been 100% locked down, I am unable to share the details. I can say that #AGF12 should be bigger and better than any one […]
Waiting for your luggage at baggage claim can be a real drag. Passengers who just arrived just after midnight on Christmas day at Qubec City Jean Lesage International Airport received a special little surprise. While the 36 passengers waited for their luggage, wrapped packages starting coming out, each with one of their names on it. “People […]