Penguins really can fly on South West Airlines

Recently on a South West flight from San Francisco to San Diego, SeaWorld was transporting penguins back home from a science convention. The waddling, flightless birds were allowed to roam the aisle much to the delights of passengers.While marching down the aisle a tutorial on the species was given over the airplane's passenger announcement system.

Space Shuttle Launch: Viewed From an Airplane

The last flight of the Discovery space shuttle into space took off on February 24th 2011. Passengers departing on a commercial flight from Orlando, FL where lucky enough to see the take off from their window seats.
The space shuttle is due to return from the ISS space station for the very last time today.

Air New Zealand receives Boeing 777-300ER with cuddle class

NZ's new economy-class "cuddle" seat

Air New Zealand took delivery this week of their first Boeing 777-300ER at Boeing's facility in Seattle. The new  B777 will feature the Skycouch  as well as the premium economy space seat. The interactive inflight entertainment system will allow passengers to order food and drinks through their personal TV screen. Wine tasting in one of the galleys and story telling for children in another one are just 2 of the new innovative features aboard NZ's latest airplane.Read the full story here

Continental Boeing 777 flat-bed BusinessFirst seats

Courtesy of Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines announced that all of its Boeing 777 long-haul, international flights now feature new flat-bed seats in its BusinessFirst cabin. CO currently operates the 777-200 on international routes between EWR and Beijing, Delhi, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London/Heathrow, Mumbai, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and Tokyo Narita, and between Houston and London Heathrow and Tokyo Narita. Customers flying to international destinations on CO 777s are now assured a flat-bed seat.

The flat-bed seats made their operational debut in November 2009 and are also being installed on CO’s fleet of Boeing 757-200 aircraft. CO will begin retrofitting substantially all of its Boeing 767 aircraft with BusinessFirst flat-bed seats in 2011.

Gay wedding on board Virgin America flight

Courtesy of Virgin America

Two men got married on a Virgin America flight from San Francisco to New York last Thursday.
The captain officiated the wedding while flying over Canada where gay marriage is legal. According to a Virgin America spokeswoman this was not the first wedding on one of their airplanes. Virgin Group Chairman Sir Richard Branson had performed a wedding in October 2007 on a flight from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Full story

Pilot looses right wing and lands airplane

During an air race flying through pylons suddenly the right wing fell off. Somehow the pilot manages to land the aircraft safely.Watch the incredible video here

Pillow fight on board Lufthansa

On board a Lufthansa flight from Tel Aviv to Frankfurt a pillow fight broke out. The flight attendant standing in the aisle seemed to have enjoyed it very much! By the way you won't see this happen on US carriers since those tend to charge a fee for pillows...

What could your meal look like on your next flight

Airlinemeals.net has an impressive collection of almost 20'000 pictures of over 500 airlines and their food served. Visit the site

Air New Zealand rolls out state of the art economy seat

Starting April 2011 on NZ's Boeing 777-300 those new seats, unique in the industry, will be available on selected routes. Seated in the space seat  watch movies or play video games on your personal 10.6'' wide touch screen and in case you d'like a snack to go along with favorite movie or TV program you can order it right from your screen.

Read about all the new features here

Know where you are sitting on your next flight

These websites are a great help when it comes to choose your seat on your next flight. Check it out!

• Seatguru     
• Seatexpert

Publish Post

Qatar Airways voted the best dressed cabin crew

Qatar Airways has topped a list of 10 “best-dressed” airlines conducted by airfare comparison site Skyscanner on over 500 users.

The runner up is Air France followed by British Airways on the 3rd place. Other entries in the top 10 included Iberia and Alitalia, along with Delta and Jet Airways. On the 10th place is Lufthansa.

Singapore Airlines To Launch Inflight Connectivity

Customers travelling on Singapore Airlines flights will soon be able to stay connected at all times, even at 35,000 feet.

The multi-million-dollar collaboration with inflight connectivity provider OnAir includes a full suite of onboard communication offerings, providing the Airline’s customers with access to Wi-Fi Internet and mobile telephony services.  The mobile telephony services will enable customers to send and receive SMS text messages with their GSM-compatible mobile phones, send and receive email messages easily on smartphones and BlackBerry® devices, and make and receive voice calls.

With plans to roll out the services from as early as the first half of 2011, Singapore Airlines will be the first major airline in Asia to launch a full suite of inflight connectivity services.  These will be introduced progressively on flights operated by the Airline’s Airbus A380, Airbus A340-500 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

Cebu Pacific Airlines features Lady Gaga in their inflight safety demo

Those flight attendants surely get everyones attention during their safety demo!

Swiss improves inflight food service in economy class

SWISS is improving its Economy Class product. The airline will be serving freshly-made sandwiches to Economy Class guests on its European services from 1 October onwards. The SWISS Economy inflight product has also been enhanced on intercontinental flights, in both content and packaging terms. Full story here

Be creative while inflight

Next time you are bored on board a flight try this.

The instruction on how to make your own wallet: Here

Skyrider

Is this the future on low cost carriers such as Ryan Air? I guess still better then standing as previously announced by O'Leary but dismissed by the The European Aviation Safety Agency.
Comment from the designer of this seat called skyrider: 'The seat is like a saddle. Cowboys ride eight hours on their horses during the day and still feel comfortable in the saddle.'

Read full story here