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Exactly 57 years ago today, on Friday, September 17, 1965, a Pan American World Airways (Pan AM) Boeing 707 crashed in the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, killing all 30 passengers and crew. The aircraft, a seven-year-old Boeing 707-100 named "Clipper Constitution" with the registration N708PA, was on a flight from Fort-de-France to Antigua and […]

These days, we think of long-haul flights as being operated by modern Boeing or Airbus aircraft, being flown in relative comfort and with multiple amenities at our disposal for the duration of the flight. However, a little-known fact is that one service many years ago lasted far more hours than any long-haul flight operating today.

If you've ever traveled internationally, you may have encountered a frustratingly slow and tedious line-up to get through passport control or customs. Many countries and their international airports have made steps to speed up the process of having a border guard stamp your passport on the way into the country, and Vancouver Airport (YVR) has

Designed, developed, and built by the Antonov ASTC of Ukraine to replace the hugely popular An-24, the An-140 is a twin-engine 52-passenger/cargo plane. The aircraft was designed to operate on unprepared airstrips for regional short-haul flights. Read More Here: 25 Years Of Flight: A Guide To The Antonov An-140’s Variants | SimpleFlying.com via Flight Booking

Just over a week after the Mayor of Vilnius declared that his city had overtaken Riga as the largest city in the Baltics, Lithuania's airport authority announced that it had secured a contractor to build a new passenger departure terminal for Vilnius Airport. Let's look at the details of this exciting new plan. Read More

Rubik's Cubes are often used by young children or teenagers to kill time. However, this astronaut decided to bring a Rubik's Cube to a Parabolic flight and was able to solve it in just 19 seconds! Read More Here: How A Rubik’s Cube Was Solved In Under 20 Seconds During A Parabolic Flight | SimpleFlying.com

As part of the testing of a new aircraft, the manufacturer must demonstrate that all passengers can be evacuated in a short amount of time when an emergency arises – within 90 seconds to be precise. If it doesn’t comply, the aviation authorities won’t approve its safety certification. But where does this 90-second time limit

Traveling as a student is common. This could be for studies (to get to and from a university or college location), for overseas work experience, for leisure, or even for a more extensive gap year. Whatever the reasons, students often have different needs from other travelers. Students tend to be less committed or conditioned to

The informational picket is the return of peaceful, organized protests for US airline labor relations of, off-duty airline employees, from pilots to flight attendants, seeking redress of grievances. From Alaska Airlines’ big April 1 informational picket that shone a bright spotlight on Alaska Airlines’ structural problems just as the airline was suffering through historic cancelations

We have previously examined faster methods for onboarding a commercial aircraft, but there is much room for improvement in the disembarking process as well. Currently, most airlines have no specified procedure for offboarding, so passengers exit the cabin as soon as they can in a chaotic manner. Read More Here: What’s The Quickest Way To