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…
On May 28, a China Eastern COMAC C919 took to the sky and began the first commercial flight of the Chinese-manufactured jet. Since then, COMAC's C919 was placed on the route between Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport and Chengdu’s Tianfu International Airport. This aircraft has attracted a lot of aviation enthusiasts,…
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…
Flying on flight SQ24 has been ot the top of my aviation bucket list for a while now. The opportunity to fly on the world's longest flight isn't something you can do every day but I wanted to see what it would be like to survive on an airplane for…
With over 70 weekly flights between Texas and London, three airlines offer over 3,000 seats everyday between the Lone Star State and England’s capital. A fourth airline recently joined the lineup when Virgin Atlantic touched down in Austin. The carrier inaugurated flights between Austin and London Heathrow in May 2022,…
This flight is the second in a series of flights that took me around the world so I could fly on the world's longest flight and despite being only one hour in length it may have been the best of the bunch. Check-in The check-in experience in Jakarta was…
Icelandair’s business model of leveraging the country’s mid-Atlantic geographic position allows the carrier to serve four markets: ‘TO, FROM, VIA and Within Iceland.’ With the population of Iceland estimated at just below 350,000, reliance on traffic to and from Europe and North America meant during the dark days of the…
This trip report is the first in a series of stories that took me from Los Angeles to New York’s JFK Airport via Manila, Jakarta and Singapore. This trip was completely funded independently and is an honest opinion on the airlines included. This week I will introduce you to Philippine…
The closure of the U.S.-Canada land border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which remained in place for over two years between March 2020 and November 2022 was particularly hard for some of the regional airports in the U.S. that heavily rely on Canadian passengers to generate traffic. Among those Plattsburgh…
