The Airbus A321 and Boeing 737 are competing narrow-body twinjet aircraft. The 737 was introduced 27 years before the first A321 started operating. That said, the 737 has continued to evolve and improve over the decades and is still in production with plenty of orders for the 737MAX variants still to be delivered. The A321 […]
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The 777-200 was launched in 1989 to fill the gap in Boeing’s product catalog between the 747 and the 767. The first 777-200 delivery took place in 1995 and was followed by an increased weight and range variant – the 777-200ER, which entered service in 1997. ETOPS (180 minutes) approval for the 777 came in
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The airline industry is in a state of recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in 2020 and extending through to 2022, lockdowns and travel restrictions were imposed by many governments, passenger numbers were a fraction of what they were prior to the pandemic, and many aircraft remained in storage in vast aircraft parking ‘lots.’ The
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The A380 is no longer in production and was available in just one variant – the A380-800. Other variants were proposed but never produced, including the A380 Freighter (A380F), the A380-200 or ‘A380 Stretch’, the A380-900 (another stretched variant), the A380neo (stretched, new engines and higher passenger capacity), and the A380plus (higher seat capacity and
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With a range of up to 8,555 nautical miles (15,840km), the Boeing 777 is one of the most versatile long-range passenger aircraft in service today. Even so, passengers unfamiliar with twin-engine operations and safety standards may feel apprehensive about long-range flights should an engine be lost. Can a Boeing 777 Fly on One Engine? Let’s
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Lufthansa Group airlines Lufthansa, Swiss, and Edelweiss Air are some of the last few remaining Airbus A340 operators in the world. Arguably, they are also the easiest options when it comes to flying on the type. While the former flies the type from Frankfurt and Munich, the latter two airlines operate out of Zurich. In
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When different people talk about how long their flight is, they might mean different things. Some might say “I’m taking a 20-hour flight to Japan” and include two flights and a transfer time in their calculation. Others might say “it’s a 12-hour flight” and mean just the actual flying time – i.e. the time their
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For better or worse, I never had a chance to fly on ANA’s Boeing 787-8s equipped with regional business class on an international flight. With the aircraft being used domestically now, though, I finally could try it on a domestic flight from Osaka to Naha in Premium Class. The flight was a part of my
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Being one of its largest domestic hubs, it is no wonder that ANA operates both an ANA Lounge and an ANA Suite Lounge at Osaka Itami airport. While I have yet to visit the latter, during my ANA Super Flyers mileage run, I had a chance to spend time in the former. Continue reading this
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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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