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• When the Feds Revoke Your Pilot’s Certificate

  You NEVER, EVER want to receive a letter like this one from the FAA telling you that all your months or years of hard work and effort to win your pilot’s certificate have just gone up in smoke. After flying past Minneapolis a few weeks back, the... Posted Nov 05 2009, 01:18 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, Flight Training, airline pilots, air safety, GA pilots, Pilot privleges, pilot license revocation, Northwest Flight 1588

• 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... Posted Oct 26 2009, 01:24 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

• 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... Posted Aug 10 2009, 09:00 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

• 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... Posted 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,... Posted Jun 08 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

• 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... Posted May 15 2009, 07:48 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, air travel, Jetwhine, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, airline branding, jumbo jets, Air New Zealand

• Certified Flight Attendants

  Most airline passengers understand that pilots are required to qualify initially through FAA guidelines, are also required to regularly undergo a physical exam just to make sure some small problem doesn’t lead to incapacitation aboard a flight.... Posted Apr 10 2009, 04:41 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, airline, airline pilots, Continental Airlines, airline employees, flight attendants, Continental Express

• United and Continental Airlines: Dumb and Dumber

  As a marketing-communications guy , JD Power and Associates recent labeling of Continental Airlines as one of the best in the nation for overall customer satisfaction, as well as the Best U.S. Airline award CAL also grabbed from the Official Airline Guide... Posted Jun 30 2008, 03:52 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, Blogging, air travel, United Airlines, airline, Southwest Airlines, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, airline alliances, Continental Airlines, Larry Kellner, JD Power, Avolar, Glen Tilton, airline branding

• Death of an Another Airline

  Now that Aloha Airlines has closed its doors and parked its airplanes for good, it seems like 1991 all over again to me. That’s the year the airline I worked for, Midway 1, shut down because of high fuel prices - at least they seemed high then Read... Posted Apr 01 2008, 08:40 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, air travel, airline pilots, PanAm, Midway Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Aloha Airlines

• FAA Management is What’s Really Scary, not the Airlines

  I had a call today from one of the major TV networks. The reporter was hoping I’d sit in front of a TV camera for a story about the grounding of hundreds of Delta and American Airlines MD-80 flights in the wake of another FAA airline maintenance... Posted Mar 28 2008, 01:21 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, ATC, airline pilots, Bobby Sturgell, American, Delta Airlines, Lou Dobbs

• JetBlue is Taking the Pilot Shortage Problem into Their Own Hands

  We’ve all been talking about the looming pilot shortage - as well as a shortage of aviation mechanics. Some airlines have already begun feeling the pinch as the requirements for future cockpit members have begun to plummet in a simple supply and... Posted Feb 01 2008, 09:25 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Flight Training, air travel, airline pilots, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, American Airlines, pilot shortage, JetBlue, University of North Dakota

• First Cessna 400 "Lamborghini" Heads for Australia;Where’s Garry Now?

  As you read this, the ugly weather should have departed California headed east and Garry Mitchell should be taking off for another day’s flying. Mitchell’s office is often a bit of a moving target, so this week he’ll spend most of his... Posted Jan 28 2008, 05:07 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, pilots, air travel, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Brisbane, USS Kitty Hawk, Cessna 182, Cessna 400, Australian Air Ferry, Cessna Aircraft Company, Lamborghini, flight tracking

• "What?" … I said, "Most Old Pilots’ Hearing is Shot"

  People who fly airplanes for a living often share some of the same ailments in their older years found among other workers who also operate obnoxious moving machinery … jack hammers, high-speed riveting machines, drag racers. My wife and daughter... Posted Jan 24 2008, 10:13 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Airlines, Airports, FAA, Flight Training, air travel, hearing problems, airline pilots, Boeing 727, airline humor