In most places in America, this picture would evoke fear – or at least it would evoke memories of September 11. But in San Diego, it’s virtually unnoticed – happening, as it does, around 500 times every day. San Diego is the busiest single runway airport in America, and it’s flight path is intriguing – coming in,…
This week, our Travel pics series has been J for Jets. And we end with a pic chosen because it’s just plain iconic .. and its about to disappear. American Airlines has a fleet of nearly a thousand planes .. and a mix of liveries. The most famous is this – the silver fuselage with red-white-and-blue striping…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Saturday, we return to Nadi, in Fiji, and this Virgin 737. VH-VUY .. or Snapper Rocks, as Virgin calls it .. is a 737-8KG variant, built in 2010. It was originally flown as a Virgin Blue plane, Byron Beauty – but was later repainted and renamed…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Friday, it’s the C-17 – or Globemaster III. This aircraft was designed to fill the role left by the C-130 Hercules turbo-prop cargo and transport plane, and the larger C5 Galaxy. Just a bit smaller than a Boeing 747, the Globemaster III was proposed in the early…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Thursday, there’s not much of the jet on display – but it was such an amazing view, I couldn’t resist! This is the Alps, from on board an Alitalia Airbus A320 We were flying from Heathrow to Rome, to spend a few days in the Eternal City…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. And for Wednesday, it’s a bit of a cheat – today’s ‘Jet’ isn’t a jet any more – in fact, it never was. It’s a bus, made from the fuselage of a Douglas DC3. The DC3 was actually a propeller-driven aircraft, rather than a jet, but it…
This week, our Travel pics series will be J for Jets. For Tuesday, it’s the final flight of a venerable workhorse. The Island of Vanua Levu was a 747 that had been in service with Air Pacific, as it was known, for 10 years before this, its last flight, in 2013. DQ-FJK was already 13 years…
This week, our Travel pics series will be J for Jets. We”ll begin with a Southwest jet in an iconic location – LAX. This Boeing 737 (all Southwest aircraft are 737 variants) is in front of the Theme Building. This building marks what was to be the centre of a giant glass-domed terminal planned for LA International…
I am writing this blog post on a plane, in Economy class, on a low-cost carrier. I’ve recently spent quite a few hours on flights between my home in Brisbane, and the home of my ailing mother in Cairns, 140 flying minutes away. And every time, I vow to make use of that two-hour-plus window…
There’s a new commercial featuring Jennifer Aniston where she has a ‘nightmare’ – that she is travelling on an American airline in ‘cattle class’, and doesn’t get the service that she’s used to on an Emirates aircraft. It’s an amusing ad .. but I have to say, the comments it has generated are both predictable…
Cairns Communications 