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Spirit Airlines : inviting venting & making crop circles

Betty, Bob, Brutus? What name would you give to an airplane? In preparation for delivery of its first Boeing 777F in Frankfurt this October, Lufthansa is having a contest to name an airplane. Entries will be taken until July 15, 2013 and the winner will be flown to Frankfurt so they can be on hand […]

Fiji Airways had a party at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Tuesday to celebrate this Airbus A330 airplane,  which will start flying between LAX and Fiji in July as the airline ramps up service between LAX and Nadi International Airport (NAN). I wrote earlier about the airline’s new livery, the Fijian artist who created […]

Air Pacific’s makeover continues with the next step of its rebranding as Fiji Airways, the name the airline originally had back in 1951. Fiji Airways had a reception at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday to welcome its newest airplane – an Airbus A330 named – Namuka-I-Lau —which is not only the name of one […]

These Maori dancers from Honolulu’s Polynesian Cultural Center were on hand at the Honolulu International Airport on Wednesday to perform a traditional ‘haka’ for guests departing on Hawaiian Airlines’ inaugural flight direct from Honolulu to Auckland, New Zealand. Hawaiian is now the only U.S. carrier flying that route. The airline has partnerships with All Nippon […]

  One hundred years after the first powered flight in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum on Saturday opens a major exhibition celebrating the rich and remarkable stamp aviation has had on the Frontier State. That history began as a spectacle. In 1913, several Fairbanks merchants got together to ship a biplane from Seattle to Alaska by […]

Spirit Airlines : inviting venting & making crop circles

Betty, Bob, Brutus? What name would you give to an airplane? In preparation for delivery of its first Boeing 777F in Frankfurt this October, Lufthansa is having a contest to name an airplane. Entries will be taken until July 15, 2013 and the winner will be flown to Frankfurt so they can be on hand […]

Fiji Airways had a party at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Tuesday to celebrate this Airbus A330 airplane,  which will start flying between LAX and Fiji in July as the airline ramps up service between LAX and Nadi International Airport (NAN). I wrote earlier about the airline’s new livery, the Fijian artist who created […]

Air Pacific’s makeover continues with the next step of its rebranding as Fiji Airways, the name the airline originally had back in 1951. Fiji Airways had a reception at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday to welcome its newest airplane – an Airbus A330 named – Namuka-I-Lau —which is not only the name of one […]

These Maori dancers from Honolulu’s Polynesian Cultural Center were on hand at the Honolulu International Airport on Wednesday to perform a traditional ‘haka’ for guests departing on Hawaiian Airlines’ inaugural flight direct from Honolulu to Auckland, New Zealand. Hawaiian is now the only U.S. carrier flying that route. The airline has partnerships with All Nippon […]

  One hundred years after the first powered flight in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum on Saturday opens a major exhibition celebrating the rich and remarkable stamp aviation has had on the Frontier State. That history began as a spectacle. In 1913, several Fairbanks merchants got together to ship a biplane from Seattle to Alaska by […]

I am delighted that my first 787 Dreamliner flight was on LAN Airlines, which on January 2 became the first carrier to offer international service on the 787 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with non-stop flights to Santiago, Chile three days a week (Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) and with daily flights to Lima, Peru […]

Happy New Year, everyone. Here’s a toast to a happy, healthy and productive new year. Last year I was hard at work on a book (about things museums have but don’t show you) and had to decline numerous opportunities to fly on the 787 Dreamliner. I had to be content with just a few on-the-ground […]

If you’re a James Bond fan and happen to be flying on Cathay Pacific this month, you’re in luck. The airline is having and Bond-fest with an in-flight retrospective of movies and chance to win some Bond-related prizes.