I love the self-service kiosks at airports. I was one of the first people to use them when they came out and I am still a huge fan today. One of the most annoying issues is printing out my boarding pass and then waiting for someone to come over and give me my bag-tag. Sometimes […]
Get your camera (and umbrellas) ready. Boeing has announced that the first 747-8 Intercontinental is scheduled to fly on Sunday March 20th. We hope this means it will take off on the 20th, but there are a number of different things that might get in the way to delay the first flight. I will be […]
The orange exterior of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental has been getting a lot of well deserved attention. But my mother always told me, “it is what’s inside that counts.” She’s right, so let’s take a close look at the interior of the Boeing 747-8I. The plane seen at the 747-8I unveiling had no interior and […]
airBaltic was founded in 1995 and is owned by the government of Latvia. The low cost carrier was founded with a single Saab 340 and they received their first Boeing 737 in 2004. Now airBaltic has a fleet of 34 aircraft consisting of two Boeing 757-200s, eight 737-500s, eight 737-300s, 10 Fokker-50s and eight Bombardier […]
Recently, KING5’s Glenn Farley took an inside look at the Boeing archive to find interesting aircraft that never flew.