If you are about to fly with an airline you never heard of, you might be wondering if it’s safe. The short answer is that air travel continues to be one of the safest forms of travel. In 2022, a busy year for air travel, there were a total of 33 accidents involving commercial passenger […]
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The Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 widebodies are very different aircraft physically, primarily due to the upper passenger deck on the A380, making the A380 a much bigger and heavier aircraft than the 787. It’s also worth noting right off the bat that while the A380 is out of production now, the 787 remains in
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With significant differences in their capabilities, the widebody 747 and narrowbody 757 were developed to serve different types of markets. They embarked on their first commercial flights in 1969 and 1983 respectively. The 757’s production run ended in 2005, and whilst many 757s have now been retired, significant numbers are still operated by airlines such
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Boeing 787 and 747 widebodies are very different aircraft physically, primarily due to the upper passenger deck on the 747, making the 747 a much bigger and heavier aircraft than the 787. The other key difference is that the 787 remains in full production, whereas, the 747’s long production run recently came to an end
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With the recent end of 747 production, I thought it would be interesting to take a look and compare the last two 747 series – the 747-400 and the 747-8 to see where they differ and where the similarities lay. In launching the 747-8 to extend the commercial life of the 747, Boeing had to
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Naha airport in Okinawa is one of the airports in Japan where ANA operates both an ANA Lounge and an ANA Suite Lounge for its domestic passengers. I had a chance to visit the former prior to my flight back to Tokyo during my ANA mileage run last year. Continue reading to see what the
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When Pokemon celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2021, I had a feeling that Pokemon-themed aircraft would make a comeback in one way or another. At that point, however, I had no idea that over the next couple of years, there would be multiple such special liveries featured on aircraft belonging to multiple airlines not only
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When Boeing embarked on the 747 program way back in the 1960s it probably never imagined how iconic and admired the 747 would become in the world of civil aviation. The 747 was Boeing’s first wide-body commercial airliner and was conceived as air travel started to surge and airfares started to decrease, creating the opportunity
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Airbus, along with Boeing, is one of the two major manufacturers of large commercial aircraft on the global stage today. With revenues of more than $60 billion USD and innovative plans for future developments in airframe technologies, Airbus has extensive resources and a wide base of suppliers around the world. Among its most critical suppliers
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Are you interested in trying business or first class for FREE at a deep discount?
If so, you might want to check out Four Ways to Try Business & First Class Without Breaking the Bank and experiment with some of the methods mentioned in it.
It’s a free guide that I put together detailing some of the ways I was able to do so myself.
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