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A Virgin Farewell: What It Was Like to Go Behind-the-Scenes for Virgin America’s Final Flight
At midnight on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, the airline business lost another brand that helped to change and revolutionize the industry. On this day, the Virgin America brand was retired by Alaska Airlines, who had purchased Virgin America in 2016. Because of Virgin America’s innovative ideas, the airline had a cult-like following amongst customers and […]
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Allegiant Stock Slips after ’60 Minutes’ Examines Safety Record
Allegiant Air was the subject of Sunday’s episode of ’60 Minutes’ on CBS. In roughly 30 minutes, the program scrutinized the airline’s safety record, via interviews from industry and union representatives, passengers, and FAA records or previous incidents. Preceding the release of the program on Sunday, Allegiant sent a memo to its employees stating: “This story follows […]
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AirlineGeeks Announces Purchase of Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C, April 1, 2018—AirlineGeeks announced today that the website will purchase one Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, valued at $117 Million at list price. AirlineGeeks will be the first news website to purchase and use a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. This purchase is the first of its kind in the […]
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28 Passengers and a Fading Brand: The Legacy of Virgin America
Virgin America is, and always has been, unlike any other airline in the United States. They offer a degree of luxury overtakes any of the other American competition, while keeping prices affordable. I had been on the airline once before and had an image ingrained in my head that came with high expectations for Virgin and […]
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Trip Report: Flying One of the Few Classic Boeing 737s on Cayman Airways
Laid-back Caribbean carrier Cayman Airways is one of the few operators to still fly the classic 737 series. With three of the aircraft in their current fleet of six aircraft, the Classics play a large role in the airline’s operations. However, the airline is in the process of getting these aircraft out the door, granted […]
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Trip Report: Flying Onboard the Delivery Flight of Qatar’s First A350-1000 from Toulouse to Doha
After a fantastic A350-1000 delivery gala dinner Tuesday night at the Airbus Delivery Center in Toulouse, AirlineGeeks was also invited to join Qatar Airways on the ferry flight to Doha for the very first Airbus A350-1000 delivery. Arriving at Delivery Center early Wednesday morning for the flight, a lot had changed from the night before. […]
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Inside Airbus’ Latest Long-Range Aircraft Design at JFK
The Airbus A321LR — long range, has the ability to fly up to 4,000 nm nonstop. Two weeks into the flight testing phase, Airbus sent the future single-aisle aircraft across the Atlantic to show off its long-range capabilities. With hopes of being the next mid-level market long-range aircraft and replacing the aging Boeing 757, Airbus […]
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AirlineGeeks Celebrates Five Year Anniversary
There is something about airplanes that keep people wanting more. This was certainly the case when I started what is now called AirlineGeeks five years ago today. A life-long admiration for big metal birds would be the simple, but perhaps the most accurate reason, for why I started the website. What other mode of transportation […]
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“Superb Owl” Photoshop of MSP Tram Raises Eyebrows, Awareness
Many public spaces in the Twin Cities are covered in advertising promoting this weekend’s Super Bowl, and Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport is no exception. The airport’s Poma-Otis trams feature large “Super Bowl LII” ad wraps. Local aviation enthusiast John Newsome was watching airplanes from the MSP Terminal 1 parking ramp on Sunday. “I was getting […]
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First Airbus A321neo with Alaska Tail Makes Appearance in Hamburg
The Virgin America brand is gradually fading away. Since the announcement that Alaska would acquire Virgin America in a deal valued at $2.6 billion, the airline has been working to merge both brands, including future plans for Virgin’s fleet of 67 Airbus narrow-body aircraft. In March of 2017, Alaska said that they plan to retire the […]