Image via Wikipedia Today in the Sky reports that despite prayers and hopes, JetAmerica might not be dead. While the carrier, which operated no planes and thus existed only on paper, folded on Friday, the chairman of the nonexistent airline wants to return this fall, basing service out of Melbourne, Florida, one of its previously…
Image via Wikipedia Republic Airways is a holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America. They fly under contact for various airlines, including American, Continental, Delta, United, US Airways, Midwest, and Mokulele Airlines. As a contractor, Republic has just flown the planes, leaving routes, marketing, sales and ground operations to its other…
On July 25th, 2000, a Concorde, operated as Air France flight 4590, en route from Paris to New York crashed after takeoff from Paris, killing all onboard. (NYCAviation keeps reminding us of things like this). The crash was caused by a strip of metal that fell from a Continental DC-10 heading to Houston, which punctured…
Image via Wikipedia We love inflight wi-fi. We haven’t had the chance to experience it of late, but we have tentatively planned to try it out on a transcontinental flight last month. But, the following should help those flying, including ourselves, for the rest of the summer of 2009. Gogo is offering 50% off on…
Image by caribb via Flickr Charleston International Airport is having some major repair work done on its 7000 foot runway, which last received major repairs forty years ago. The airport will be closed from 12AM to 6AM till August 9th. The work has been going on since June 9th, and the airlines were well aware…
Image via Wikipedia On July 27th, 1949, the first flight of the prototype De Havilland Comet ushered in a new era of commercial aviation. The Comet entered service with BOAC on May 2nd, 1952, when it launched the first commercial jet service with scheduled flights to South Africa. The Comet was about 50% faster than…
We get a real kick out of the New York Times Traveler, which offers news from the paper from 100 years ago today. We’ve been reveling in the misadventures of that wacky President Taft. On July 28th, 1909, the top news story was, U.S. Senator Arrested in Racial Assault. But below that was an aviation…
Image via Wikipedia New York City has implemented a program to buy one-way airline tickets for homeless families to leave the city. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. The program requires a relative elsewhere willing to take them in. A travel agency is employed to book the tickets and there are…
On July 29th, 2006, the Flight Wisdom Blog launched. When we launched, we thought the blog would be a small part of a larger site. We still have that dream, but maintaining everything and doing all the other things we have to do does force us to prioritize. Two years ago this week, on July…
A followup to yesterday’s New York Times Traveler story on Orville Wright’s historic flight. Today’s paper reports, under the banner headline of Spain is Facing Outbreak of Civil War, it reports that Wright failed to fly, and got three days more, which explains the historical note that the flight took place July 30th. The entire…
Image by Getty Images via Daylife We previously reported that Republic Airways had put down a bid to buy out Frontier Airlines. Today, another airline put down a bid, Southwest Airlines. Southwest announced it was preparing a bid to compete with the Republic bid, which had been given tentative approval. If it is successful, Southwest…
Image via Wikipedia In today’s issue of the New York Times Traveler, the Wrights finally took their record-breaking flight. It met the extended deadline set for tests by the War Department, which will be paying the Wrights $25,000 for their plane. The Wright flyer hit an incredible speed of forty-two miles per hour, making the…
We’ve been really enjoying this history kick we’ve been on of late. So, newsflash…July 31st, 1986….
The Associated Press reports that Newark-based People Express will eliminate service to eight cities and change its pricing structure and policies, as well as lese eight 727-200 aircraft to another airline. It was the largest reduction in service thus far for the then five-year old carrier.
JetBlue has announced a fare sale with fares as low as $29 on selected routes. The sale is on travel between September 8th and December 16th, with blackout dates from November 24th through the 30th. Advertised fares are most often found on midweek travel dates. Changes/cancellation at $100 per person. Click The JetBlue Fall Fare…