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Trip Report: The World’s Longest Dash 8-200 Flight
The Dash 8 variant has a lot of versatility from the smallest Dash 8-100 to the Dash 8-400, which is more commonly known as the Q400. The -200 variant was the least popular of the series with only around 100 being built and delivered, among the over 1,300 Dash-8 family aircraft built so far with […]
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Icelandair and Turkish Airlines Ink Codeshare Agreement
This weekend, Icelandair and Turkish Airlines signed a codeshare agreement between the carriers that will offer passengers connections through their respective hubs. Turkish passengers flying into Keflavik can now connect through Icelandair’s hub and continue to destinations in North America. For passengers on Icelandair to Istanbul, they can now continue onto Turkish Airlines’ network to […]
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Trip Report: Crossing the Pond on a 737 MAX
Reykjavík, Iceland-based Icelandair was founded over 85 years ago in 1937, originally under the name Flugfélag Akureyrar. It has flown to many destinations over the years out of its International hub located at Reykjavík/Keflavík Airport, and a smaller hub at Reykjavík Domestic for flights within Iceland. The carrier is most known for its Icelandic stopover […]
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Kenmore Air Partners with Alaska Airlines
Local Kenmore, Washington-based airline Kenmore Air, announced through an email with its customers that they would begin partnering with the Seattle-based airline. Kenmore Air is the largest floatplane operator in the United States, flying over 80,000 passengers a year including their land-based operations which fly under their ‘Kenmore Air Express’ banner on board the Cessna […]
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JSX Announces Five New Routes
Dallas-based carrier JSX has announced five new routes that will bring them into three new cities and three new states. New cities include Nashville, Tenn.; Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; and Portland, Maine The routes to Nashville will include service to Westchester County in New York State, as well as Dallas Love Field and seasonal service to […]
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Alaska Begins New Partnership with Taiwan’s STARLUX
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines has just begun its partnership with Taiwan-based STARLUX. The Taiwanese carrier just began its first flights to the United States two days ago, on April 27, 2023, which operated from the country’s capital in Taipei to Los Angeles, which is an Alaska Airlines hub. The partnership means members from both airlines can […]
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Denver Air Connection Expands in Minneapolis
Denver-based Denver Air Connection, or more commonly known as DAC, will be expanding from its Minneapolis/St. Paul hub, which is due to a contract refresh. Pierre, S.D., an EAS community the airline has served since June 2021 when SkyWest terminated their contract here, along with nearby Watertown, S.D., which have a joint EAS contract and […]
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Atlantic Airways To Begin Flights To New York in August
Faroe Islands-based Atlantic Airways has announced in a press release that it will begin operating very limited flights from the Faroe Islands to New York this summer. Flights will begin on Aug. 22 and will only operate for six weeks until Oct. 4. The once weekly flights will leave the main airport in the Faroe […]
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Frontier Announces Termination of Rochester, N.Y.
Denver-based Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier Frontier Airlines has silently decided to end just over a dozen routes around the country, and along with that the termination of flights to Rochester, N.Y. The airline started flying there roughly two years ago in 2021, whilst the world was still in the midst of a pandemic. They operate flights from […]
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A First Look at SkyWest Charters
SkyWest Charters this week rolled out the first aircraft in a livery differentiating it from other aircraft in its parent company’s fleet. Two aircraft registered N923SW and N877AS are confirmed as airframes that will operate for SWC. There is a third plane wearing the SWC livery but the registration of it is unknown and more […]