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Air New Zealand will be offering its version of hot racking for economy passengers on its ultra-long-haul routes by renting bunks to allow them to unfold. If the authorities approve, one of the airline’s Boeing 787-9's will have six 'Skynest' bunks that those sharing their seat rows with eight others will be able to stretch out in for a fee. The airline hasn’t released how it plans to distribute access to the pods, which are 80 inches long and stacked three deep on one side of the plane but Runway Girl Network is suggesting a four-hour rental would be reasonable for the butt-numbing 18-hour nonstops from Auckland to JFK. The plane will actually have seven different survival options for the trans-Pacific and transcontinental marathon. For the well-heeled, eight “luxe” business class seats with doors and the option for two-person dining will be joined by 42 business premiere seats that don’t have the doors. They will be followed by 52 premium economy and finally 125 economy seats. The starting price for the Auckland-New York service will be about $2250 return. Source: AVWeb.com |
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Lufthansa is bringing back the A380 superjumbo. The A380 superjumbo is beloved among aviation fans, thanks to its spacious interior, mighty size and quiet inflight experience, but its days have been numbered since Airbus announced in 2019 it was ceasing production of the airliner. Costly to run, the world's largest passenger aircraft's demise was apparently accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic travel slump, but now German airline Lufthansa -- which had been selling off its grounded A380s and was understood to be retiring the aircraft from its fleet -- has announced plans to redeploy the huge plane from summer 2023. In a statement released on Monday, Lufthansa said the aircraft was returning "in response to the steep rise in customer demand and the delayed delivery of ordered aircraft," noting the A380 remains popular with its crew, as well as passengers. Source: CNN Travel |
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Scandinavian airline SAS has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States to help cut debt, piling pressure on striking pilots it blames for deepening its financial woes and sending its shares down 10%. Wage talks between SAS and its pilots collapsed on Monday, July 4, triggering a strike that adds to travel chaos across Europe as the peak summer travel season shifts into full gear. Source: Reuters.com |
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From the 'New Horizons' magazine - Issue dated October 2003.
After a restless night worrying that I'd not hear my alarm go off, in the wee hours of October 1, 2003 I started my day a bit earlier than usual. At 3:45 a.m., I crawled out of bed, stepped gingerly over my bewildered dogs, and proceeded to get dressed. Why was I up before the birds? I had volunteered to help out at the Montreal chapter's 'Dreams Take Flight' set to depart that morning. When I arrived at Dorval base at 4:30, the place was already a hive of activity. Volunteers, feeling the first nip of fall's arrival, guided arriving cars to their parking spaces and showed sleepy-eyed families the way to the hangar. However, once they stepped inside, all thoughts of sleep vanished. |
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Meet the newest, and youngest, commercial pilot at True North Airways in Ontario. Isabel Fredette was barely a teenager when she decided she wanted to become a pilot. Just two years later, Fredette earned a private pilot's license. Now 18, she's working for True North Airways, a private charter airline based on Whitewater Lake in Azilda. Fredette is a new high school graduate who plans to get into biology studies at Laurentian University in Sudbury this fall. But this summer, she'll focus on her work at True North Airlines. Source: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury |
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Ann learned to fly in 1960. Since then, she’s flown all around the world - literally. In 1967 Ann, with a crew of three, successfully completed Amelia Earhart’s incomplete 1937 circumnavigation of the planet. Ann was the first to fly a 1937 twin-engine Lockheed 10 Electra on the Earhart Trail. She dropped a wreath on Howland Island, exactly 30 years after Earhart reportedly vanished there; interesting to note that Ms. Pellegreno was born in 1937. Ann landed back in Oakland, California where her trip began, and her newfound fame had just begun. Her book, World Flight, The Earhart Trail, should be mandatory reading for any pilot who ventures out of sight of land. Source: AVWeb.com More info @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Pellegreno |
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Retired Captain Rob Giguere advises the following: With regard to the 1987 picture of CF-TCC in NetLetter #1488 submitted by Marg Bonham, the pilots in the photo are Captain John Racey (Vancouver Base) and Captain Joe Prime (Winnipeg Base). They are 2 of the 4 Air Canada captains that flew TCC on its 50th Anniversary tour. |
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Neil Burton sends us this information and thought it might be of interest to our readers.- A newspaper report excerpt from Kamloops Daily Sentinel, April 17, 1962 (page 2), with some background to the operation of PWA between Stewart and the Granduc airstrip using the Super - 46 (Curtiss C-46) aircraft, relating to the video which appeared in NetLetter #1476 under 'Featured Video(s)' an article by Ken Pickford. Planes Carry Heavy Gear To Mountain VANCOUVER (CP) — Pacific Western Airlines has completed a 2,700 ton freight haul from Stewart to the top of Granduc Glacier in northern British Columbia. General Manager, R. H. Laidman, told the company's annual meeting Monday that two aircraft carried out the project for a mining company. The mining company cleared a 5,600 foot airstrip at Stewart on the coast at the southern tip of the Alaskan panhandle. On the glacier, 55 miles from Stewart and 3000 feet above sea level, a 4,500 foot landing strip was built by compacting the snow as it fell to a thickness of about 12 feet. The area gets 60 feet annually. In a two-month period that began in February, PWA used two twin-engine wheeled 'Super - 46' aircraft on 290 trips to carry the freight, which included everything required to support the mining operation. Prefabricated steel tanks, of 17,000 gallon capacity, were flown in and, after erection, 250,000 gallons of fuel oil was flown up in a 1,500 gallon rubber bladder inserted in one of the aircraft. Cheers, Neil Burton Editor’s Note: Neil is also a frequent contributor to PWA Reunion website @ www.pwareunion.com |