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Aviation Report: March 2014
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Sunday, March 30, 2014. Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess Their Best Kept Secrets. 30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess The Best Kept Secrets You Dont Know About Flying:. THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THOSE OXYGEN MASKS. That if the oxygen masks drop down, you only have about 15 minutes of oxygen from the point of pulling them down. However, that is more than enough time for the pilot to take us to a lower altitude where you can breathe normally. Former Lufthansa cargo agent here. Whatever you do, do not d...
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Aviation Report: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. How to Get Air Fares When They’re at Their Lowest. Air fares for U.S. domestic flights sink to their lowest levels 57 days. Before departure, on average, according to a Wall Street Journal report of an Airline Reporting Corporation study that looked at sales through online and traditional travel agencies but not through airlines directly. That’s well before the average purchase date, which is just over 1 month. Prior to the flight date. Looking for an airfare deal? One factor...
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Aviation Report: February 2014
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014. NetJets's blue ocean strategy. NetJets reconstructed market boundaries to create a blue ocean by looking across alternative industries. NetJets observed that business travellers, the most lucrative mass of customers, have two principal choices: They can fly business class or first class on a commercial airline or the company can purchase its own aircraft to serve its corporate travel needs. Why would corporations choose one alternative industry over another? The Turkish gove...
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Aviation Report: Airlines to public: please ignore this blog post
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Sunday, January 18, 2015. Airlines to public: please ignore this blog post. Moreover, even if Skiplagged vanished from the internet tomorrow, the automated hidden-city lookup tool Mr Zaman sought to offer already exists, thanks to none other than Google. With just a little know-how, it is easy to find hidden-city flights on Matrix, the search giant’s advanced airfare site (see guide below). How to book a hidden-city trip on Matrix. Posted by Thibaut Labarre. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A leading ...
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Aviation Report: January 2014
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Monday, January 20, 2014. Bird strikes are a problem—sometimes a fatal one—for military and civil aviation alike. America’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that there are about 10,000 such strikes a year to the country’s non-military aircraft, costing more than $957m in damage and delays. The worldwide figure is estimated by the European Space Agency to be $1.2 billion. A bird in the band. Like Accipiter, Robin has also dipped a toe in the civil-aviation market. In April 2013 the author...
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Aviation Report: January 2015
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Sunday, January 18, 2015. Airlines to public: please ignore this blog post. Moreover, even if Skiplagged vanished from the internet tomorrow, the automated hidden-city lookup tool Mr Zaman sought to offer already exists, thanks to none other than Google. With just a little know-how, it is easy to find hidden-city flights on Matrix, the search giant’s advanced airfare site (see guide below). How to book a hidden-city trip on Matrix. Posted by Thibaut Labarre. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A leading aviation...
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Aviation Report: September 2014
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Monday, September 22, 2014. Airplane Crew May Face Increased Melanoma Risk. Airline pilots and crews may be at increased risk for melanoma, a new review has found. Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that starts in the melanocytes, the cells that produce skin pigment. According to the National Cancer Institute, there are about 76,000 cases and 10,000 deaths a year from the disease in the United States. 8220;At 30,000 feet, the amount of UVA radiation that gets through is considerable,” said th...
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Aviation Report: Split Scimitar Winglets set to become a common sight
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Sunday, February 8, 2015. Split Scimitar Winglets set to become a common sight. If you think that you've been seeing some funny-looking airliners in the past couple of months, you're not imagining things. On February 18th, a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 made the world's first commercial flight by an aircraft equipped with fuel-saving Split Scimitar Winglets. Yesterday, Southwest Airlines announced that it had also started using the Split Scimitar Winglets on one of its 737-800s. The company plans o...
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Aviation Report: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. GE crowdsources air traffic data analysis with Flight Quest 2. Through Flight Quest, GE tapped Kaggle’s worldwide community of data scientists and received more than 6,800 combined submissions across 58 countries, with a total prize pool of $500,000 from GE. Source: http:/ www.genewscenter.com/Press-Releases/GE-and-Partners-Announce-Winning-Open-Collaboration-Innovations-of-Industrial-Internet-Flight-Ques-46a3.aspx. Posted by Thibaut Labarre. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Europea...
