A United/Continental possible livery on a Boeing 747-400
A lot of talk about United Airlines and the Continental merger. There are quite a few people that aren’t too happy with the new combined livery of the new United Airlines. A while back I found a site that allows people share their photoshopped liveries and a few interesting ones have popped up for a combined Continental and United Airlines livery.
Be sure to check out their site for other possible combinations.
Image: Jetabout via Aviation-Designs.net
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Air Canada Boeing 767-300
Who needs all these body scanners and security. One Canadian man found all he needed was a credit card and Costco membership card for an international flight. Doug Tiedeman, 21, who has cerebral palsy and the mental capacity of a 12-year-old took an Air Canada flight from Calgary to London on April 27th on his own. Understandably his parents are quite upset that the airline would allow him to fly. According to Transport Canada rules, adults need government-issued ID such as a driver’s license or passport to board a passenger plane.
Doug took a taxi from his home to the airport and bought a ticket using only a credit card and Costco card. When his mother noticed he was missing she hit redial on the phone, which called Air Canada’s reservation center. When she tried to confirm if her son had purchased a ticket or was on a flight, the airline was not able to tell them due to privacy concerns. Doug was trying to meet a woman in London who he was chatting on Facebook with. When he arrived in London he was quite overwhelmed and after he phoned the girl he was to meet (who had no idea he was coming), she told him to call his parents.
Working with an airport employee, Doug purchased a ticket home, but had to spend the night at a local hotel. He was able to return safely home and doesn’t feel the need to fly anytime soon.
Air Canada states they are currently investigating how Doug could flight without proper identification.
Source: IFPress.com Image: Caribb
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Alaska Airline's Captain bringing out the first Copper River Salmon that is 46lbs.
Today I got up quite early for a special event. Salmon. Lots and lots of salmon.
After I woke up I headed over to Alaska Airline’s cargo facility by Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for a special delivery: 22,000 pounds of Copper River Salmon! If you don’t know about Copper River Salmon, you have been missing out. It is like the king of salmon.
22,000lbs might sound like a lot, but Alaska flew about 700,000lbs of Copper River Salmon last year and more than 25 million pounds of seafood last year. Yikes! Maybe it should be called sea-air food (ok I know bad joke).
That's me (in the awesome vest) and Alaska Airlines President Brad Tilden (he's one cool guy!) in front of Salmon-3-Salmon
“Alaska Airlines flies more Copper River salmon throughout the season than any other airline,” said Joe Sprague, Alaska’s vice president of marketing. “With enhanced food quality procedures and additional flights to support the Alaska seafood industry, we are going the extra mile to deliver fresh seafood throughout the country.”
Each year Alaska Airlines flies the season’s first catch of the fish from Cordova, AK to Seattle and beyond. Not only did I get to watch Alaska’s Boeing 737-400 Cargo land, but Alaska also had their Salmon-3-Salmon present to celebrate.
A 46lb salmon was the first one to de-plane and was filleted. Three chefs competed to make the best meal and a panel of judges, including Jay Buhner, Seattle Mariners Hall of Famer; Mike Fourtner, deckhand on the F/V Time Bandit, as featured on Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch;” Paul Wulff, Washington State University football coach (go University of Washington Huskies — my alum); and Alaska Airlines President Brad Tilden.
That is one BIG fish!
Follow @AlaskaAir on Twitter, to see the winning Copper River salmon recipe. The three recipes prepared for the Copper Chef Cook-off are available to download at http://bit.ly/CRSalmon. Fish lovers are encouraged to share their own favorite salmon recipes on Twitter, using the hashtag #CRsalmon. (if none of that Twitter talk makes sense to you, don’t worry, just pretend I just wrote something in Greek).
This means you will start to be able to find the Copper River Salmon at your local grocery store or seafood restaurant. You can rest assured that the salmon flying on Alaska will be fresh, since each employee is trained on how to handle perishable cargo. The salmon is kept cool and they make sure the journey is quick.
Copper River salmon might cost a bit more and is it worth it? HECK YES!
Check out all 71 photos of this morning’s event. A special thanks for Alaska Airlines for putting on this awesome event and of course the invite!
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Here are six amazing photos of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Boeing 40C flying together. When I first saw these photos I thought they were too amazing to be real. However I did confirm with Boeing that they are very much real.
From the owner’s of the Boeing 40C, “The Pemberton Family wants to thank the visionaries at The Boeing Company for their support in making some history this past Saturday. Boeing test pilot Mike Carriker flew Dreamliner serial number 001, the newest Boeing commercial aircraft, for some formation flyby shots with the Pemberton’s Model 40, the oldest flying Boeing commercial aircraft. The flights were just west of Mt. Rainier, Washington.”
It is amazing to see Boeing’s oldest flying aircraft with their newest. A true enthusiast can’t help but get goosebumps seeing these photos!
Click any image for a larger version below:
UPDATE: See how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Boeing 40C photos were taken.
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Arkia Israeli Airlines 757-300 4X-BAW
Russia and Israel have recently had issues with authorizing flights between the two countries. On May 10th an Arkia Airlines flight with 260 Israeli passengers were not given authorization to take off from Moscow to return home to Israel.
The Arkia flight was ready to take off, when Russian clerks asked to see all the airline crew’s visas. The three pilots and six flight attendants were puzzled since Israel and Russia had signed an agreement over a year ago, stating visas were not needed. The Russian officials seemed un-phased and caused the plane to be grounded. The passengers, mostly senior citizens on a tour, had to spend the light at the Moscow airport, some with little to no money.
Arkia immediately employed the assistance of the Civil Aviation Authority and the Israeli Embassy in Moscow, but to no avail. “Although everyone agreed that it was a mistake, they just told us to come back at 8 am to solve the problem,” the airline’s deputy CEO, Nir Dagan, told Ynet. “It was unacceptable to us.”
Since normal negotiation methods were not working, the Airports Authority in Israel grounded a Trans Euro flight heading to Moscow until the Arkia flight was authorized to take off. Finally, around 4am the Russian officials gave authorization and both flights were allowed to leave.
An Israeli official said it was not the first time the Russian authorities had created difficulties for Israeli flights. “The Russians have a problem opening the Russia-Israel line for other companies as well, which hurts many Russian airlines.”
A senior airline official explained that although Russia and Israel had signed numerous bilateral agreements about the expansion of the flight options between the two countries, many Russian officials were unhappy with the large number of Israeli flights landing throughout the country because it harmed the Russian airlines.
Another roadblock is Israeli flights need to have a permit before each flight, which might not be granted until a few days beforehand. In a recent incident, an Israeli plane was forced to return to Russia after officials stated they did not have the necessary permits, but the flight did.
“We are familiar with the problem, but we don’t know whether it derives from Russian bureaucracy or whether a commercial consideration is behind it,” Tourism Ministry official Pini Shani said. “This instability is not good for tourism. We want as many Israeli and Russian airlines as possible flying between the countries. Every time there is a new flight agreement or one is expanded there are setbacks, but in the end the Russians always approve the flights at the last minute.”
Seems like a crazy political game, that is only hurting the citizens of both countries.
Source: Ynet Image: Savvas Garozis
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