As a 20-year veteran of the A320 cockpit for a major U.S. airline, including the last 15 in the Captain’s seat, I have cringed at the utter misrepresentation of aviation facts often disseminated by news outlets and their self-proclaimed “aviation experts” endlessly paraded across the TV screen during coverage of the latest air disaster. Coverage…
For flight changes or cancellations, which can run into the hundreds of dollars. For seat assignments, which can cost around $50 per seat. For checked bag, usually around $25 per bag. For priority boarding, about $50. Link
Norwegian has decided to change its cockpit procedures so that two crew members always are present in the cockpit. Link
PARIS — The chief Marseille prosecutor handling the investigation into the crash of a Germanwings jetliner said on Thursday that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder indicated that the co-pilot had deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit and steered the plane into its fatal descent. Link
Finnair will launch inflight WiFi on the Airbus A350 when the first XWB is delivered in autumn this year, and will fitout its entire short-haul and long-haulr fleet by the end of 2018 Link
The wraps are off Austrian Airlines’s new livery, and it’s a more subtle make-over than some were expecting. Link
