05/05/16
A fun snap from the pre-flight festivities celebrating KLM's Dreamliner service on the San Francisco-Amsterdam route. →
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11/07/14
It’s still so new – but the 787 Dreamliner is already a museum piece. On Saturday, Nov. 8, the Boeing Company will officially donate Dreamliner “Number 3” to Seattle’s Museum of Flight. If you’re in town, you’ll be able to see the plane in the museum’s East Parking Lot all weekend and tour it from →
05/24/14
Souvenir Sunday at the Boeing Store →
01/21/13
Boeing, the FAA, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), airlines and all manner of interested parties are worried about the fate of the 787 Dreamliner. And I am too. For all the reasons everyone else wants all the problems to be resolved but also because I’m worried about the fate of the one-butt ashtray. While →
01/09/13
Later this month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was scheduled to send out requests for proposals (RFPs) for private security screening firms to replace federal screeners at Sacramento International Airport (SMF) in California and Orlando-Sanford International Airport (SFB) in Florida as part of the Screening Partnership Program (SPP). The contract for private screening services at →
01/04/13
LAN’s new 787 thrice-weekly flight from LAX to Santiago leaves at 2:30 in the afternoon and arrives at around 6 a.m. the following morning. Even with the five hour time difference there’s plenty of time in the air. And while I was a flying (as a guest) in the premium business class cabin on the →
01/03/13
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 →
01/02/13
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 →
09/26/11
Here are some fun photos from a day spent at Boeing’s Everett campus, learning about and touring the 787 Dreamliner and wandering around the 787 factory floor in preparation for Monday’s long-awaited delivery celebration for the first Dreamliner delivery to ANA. →