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The Top 10 Reasons They Missed MSP

Just like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, unraveling the real story behind the Northwest/Delta Airlines crew who forgot to land at MSP just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Brings to mind the gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes. If that doesn’t...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 1:24 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, air travel, airline, Jetwhine, airline pilots, Northwest Airlines pilots miss Minneapolis, Top 10 reasons to miss landing at Minneapolis

Business & General Aviation: Letters Won’t do it All

Even for me, this whole business aviation as the bad guy thing is becoming pretty tiresome. In last week’s USA Today article about Aviation Trust Fund dollars being rudely sucked away from big airports to keep podunk runways usable, the Air Transport...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 1:43 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, air travel, Jim Coyne, TSA, Air Transport Association, airline passengers, Aviation Trust Fund, NBAA, Ed Bolen, business aviation pilots, NBC Today Show, Oxford Economics, air transport, John and Martha King, NATA, USA Today, King Schools

NATCA’s New Leadership

The fact that the FAA and it’s cadre of air traffic controllers will be working with a new leader who will be announced later today is only the beginning of the story of how this union fits into the overall plan of our nation’s airspace system...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2009 2:39 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, air travel, NATCA, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, NextGen, Randy Babbitt, Paul Rinaldi, Ruth Marlin

FAA’s Babbitt Might Just be a Standup Guy

FAA’s new administrator for the past 70 days, Randy Babbitt, last week spoke about regional airline safety centered around fallout from the crash of Colgan 3407. The audience in Washington was receptive, helped in part by the fact that they were...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2009 9:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, air travel, NATCA, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, Air Line Pilots Association, airline safety, Randy Babbitt, Stand-ups, Colgan 3407, Continuous Duty Overnights, regional airline safety

AvWeek’s Biz Av Lady on Vacation

My thanks to AvWeek’s Benet Wilson for allowing me a little space on her blog while she was out on vacation. I’ll try and coax her to write something for Jetwhine. Rob GUEST POST: Business Aviation Is Still a Secret Posted by Benet Wilson...

Published Sat, Jul 18 2009 5:18 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, Aviation Marketing, Barry LaBov, NBAA, Labov and Beyond Marketing, Benet Wilson, Aviation Now, AvWeekBenet, Ed Bolen

Artful Flying

One thing you never want to do is give me a book to review. I read them quickly, but often take forever to getting around to telling people what I thought of the experience, which pretty much defeats the purpose of the review … at least from the...

Published Sun, Jun 28 2009 11:41 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Airlines, Blogging, Flight Training, air travel, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, General Aviation, Artful Flying, Airbus A380, Michael Maya Charles

The Southwest Effect in Ireland?

For as long as I can remember, Southwest Airlines, now the largest U.S. domestic airline, created in the 1970s by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, has been the low-cost airline others most want to emulate. The need to copy isn’t just about money,...

Published Mon, Jun 8 2009 10:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, General, air travel, airline, Southwest Airlines, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, airline marketing, Ryanair, airline passengers, Herb Kelleher, Michael O’Leary

It’s Awards Time for Aviation

Every year about this time aviation writers around the globe start getting a little goose bumpy wondering if they made the cut. Making the cut means you’ve been nominated by the World Leadership Forum for the Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards...

Published Wed, May 20 2009 5:42 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, pilots, air travel, air safety, Mary Kirby, Business Jet Traveler, Flight Global, Aerospace Journalist of the Year, airline business, Jon Ostrower, Bill Sweetman, Patrick Veillette, David Lombardo, Mark Huber, Paris Air Show, Aviation International News

A Little Fun with Air New Zealand

Here’s a new installment of our sporadic Fun Friday adventures. From a couple of Jetwhine readers I now share a couple of very funny videos. The first, a new piece of Air New Zealand branding in a way only the folks next to the folks down under...

Published Fri, May 15 2009 7:48 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, air travel, Jetwhine, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, airline branding, jumbo jets, Air New Zealand

Business Jet Travel: A Line in the Sand

Remember the old days, back when people had little respect for business airplanes simply because they knew next to nothing about them? Those were the good old days until the guys from the motor companies jumped on their airplanes in Detroit to head for...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 10:50 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Business Aviation, air travel, Jetwhine, Gulfstream, Dassault, Fox TV News, Starbucks, Business Jet Traveler, Bill Hemmer, Citibank

Landing Light

After just digging out from under 10 inches of lake effect snow in Chicago, I walked in to find these great shots from a Jetwhine reader. Thanks Alan J. They reminded me of a time when an instructor once encouraged me to try landing a Cessna 150 so softly...

Published Sat, Jan 10 2009 7:35 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, pilots, air travel, Jetwhine, Cessna 150.flight training, Harvards, T-6, gauntlet warbirds, South African air show pilots, Texans

Air Fares: Price vs. Value

Everywhere today, talk about airline travel is pretty much the same. Flying is a commodity, so it makes good sense to search for the cheapest price, a variable that normally overrides the few other filters consumers can use, like the number of enroute...

Published Mon, Dec 8 2008 8:58 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, air travel, Jetwhine.com, IAG podcasts, US DOT, Guerrila marketing, airline ticket value, AirportButler.com, JFK, airport delays

TSA Large Aircraft Comment Period Begins

By now, most aviators are aware of the TSA’s new focus on general aviation security now that they have slapped the airlines around enough over the past five or six years that is. I’ve always thought anything that is detrimental to any sector...

Published Wed, Nov 5 2008 7:45 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, air travel, Aviation Marketing, General Aviation, EAA Sport Aviation, TSA, Large Aircraft Security NPRM, Earl Lawrence, Air Transport Association, ATA, Department of Homeland Security

FAA Solves ATC Staffing Crisis

It only took the agency a couple of years - actually about 10 I believe - but FAA has finally taken action on the problem of too many airplanes and two few air traffic controllers to keep them all apart. And before you ask, yes, the downturn in the economy...

Published Wed, Oct 22 2008 1:38 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, pilots, air travel, Jetwhine, ATC, NATCA

Southwest Airlines: In a Category of It’s Own

I had a ringside seat last week to many of the inner workings at Southwest Airlines when I was invited - along with a bunch of other journalists - to the airline’s media day. No matter how many times I interact with Southwest employees, they continue...

Published Mon, Oct 6 2008 4:04 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, Airports, Business Aviation, Blogging, pilots, air travel, Jetwhine, Southwest Airlines, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, PR News, Midway Airport

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