I’m made quite a career out of whining about the aviation industry, but even I need someone’s shoulder to moan on every so often. As I sit here in a hotel room in Bordeaux trying to get back to the states from France using an American/Iberia Read More...
Posted to
Jetwhine
on Sun, Feb 5 2012
Filed under: The Buzz, Airlines, Blogging, Aviation Marketing, American Airlines, The Cranky Flier, Air France, airline code sharing, American Airlines Advantage, code, cranky, flier, goodie, iberia, Iberia Airlines, sanity, ticket, whining
There was plenty of backlash when I wrote about the causes of the 2009 crash of Air France flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean back in May. Many of you wanted to wait until the final report came out, but I was confident that the story had become quite Read More...
Posted to
Cranky Flier
on Thu, Aug 4 2011
Filed under: Accidents/Incidents, Air France
When the French found the black boxes from Air France flight 447 nearly two years after the A330 airplane crashed in the Atlantic off Brazil, it was an incredible feat. But now, the French probably are wishing those black boxes remained on the floor of Read More...
Posted to
Cranky Flier
on Tue, May 31 2011
Filed under: Accidents/Incidents, Air France
It looks like search teams have found most of the wreckage from the Air France flight that went down off the coast of Brazil back in 2009. Anyone want to guess what they’ll be able to figure out from this? Read More...
Posted to
Cranky Flier
on Fri, Apr 8 2011
Filed under: Accidents/Incidents, Air France
Over the last week, the protests in Egypt have reached a boiling point. As we all know by now, the residents of this generally peaceful country followed the lead of Tunisia and poured into the streets to try to topple the government. As people on the Read More...
Posted to
Cranky Flier
on Thu, Feb 3 2011
Filed under: Air France