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MLIT Launches an Investigation Into Last Week’s Thai Airways Go Around at Haneda

Blog, News / By Keishi Nukina / April 17, 2018

Last week Wednesday, on April 11, 2018, a Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 (HS-TGX) performed a go around at Tokyo Haneda airport due to unexpected loss of altitude. Today, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) classified it as a serious incident and launched an investigation into the matter. The aircraft took off from […]

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Singapore Airlines to Operate Flights to Osaka and Tokyo Narita with Its New 787-10 from May 2018

Blog, News / By Keishi Nukina / April 17, 2018

In late March 2018, Singapore Airlines received its first Boeing 787-10 (9V-SCA), becoming the first operator of the type in the world. The second 787-10, 9V-SCB, was delivered to the airline in April, and the two aircraft have been operating crew familiarization flights on the short Singapore – Bangkok and Singapore – Kuala Lumpur routes.

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Flight Review: Air India A320neo Economy Class from Delhi to Mumbai

Economy Class / By Hirofumi Suda / April 17, 2018

Flight Information Date: January 21, 2018 Flight No.: AI863 Route: Delhi Indira Gandhi International to Mumbai International Airline: Air India Type: Airbus A320neo Registration: VT-EXI ATD: 1:10PM ATA: 3:22PM Flight Duration: 2 hrs 12 min Air India received its first Airbus A320neo in February 2017, and since then it went on to introduce more than a dozen

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Spotting Report: A Couple of Days at Sapporo New Chitose Airport and Chitose Airbase

Plane Spotting / By Keishi Nukina / April 15, 2018

The main target of a spotting trip to Sapporo I took with a couple of friends last month was catching the Japan Air Self-Defense Force 747 on one of its training flights. And, of course, also getting some sunny shots with snow of some of the regular civil traffic. Day 1: Off to a Good

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Crazy Missed Approach During a Training Flight at Nagoya Centrair Today

Blog / By Keishi Nukina / April 14, 2018

I will write about this trip in detail later, once I catch up with my backlog of reports from spotting trips to Sapporo and Phuket that I took in March. But, I wanted to post briefly about a short morning spotting session I did at Nagoya Centrair airport. The weather was unfortunately cloudy, but I

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Airport Hotel Review: ANA Crowne Plaza Chitose (Sapporo)

Hotels / By Keishi Nukina / April 13, 2018

As mentioned in the introduction to this series of reviews, I looked at a variety of places I could stay at during my spotting trip to Sapporo. In the end, though, I decided to stay at the ANA Crowne Plaza Chitose hotel belonging to the IHG network of hotels where the friends I was traveling

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Things to Do on a Long Flight: How to Pass Time on a Plane

Blog / By Keishi Nukina / April 11, 2018

As an aviation enthusiast, and a person that just likes being on a plane in general, I don’t have a hard time keeping myself busy or entertained on long-haul flights. As such, I decided to compile this list of some of the ways that I use to keep myself busy on long flights ranging from

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Your Itinerary Has Been Changed... You Will Arrive 25 Hours Later.

Your Itinerary (on a Domestic Route with 20 Daily Flights) Has Been Changed… You Will Arrive 25 Hours Late.

Blog / By Keishi Nukina / April 11, 2018

In about a month, I have a trip to Canada coming up thanks to a pair of “excellent” (read error) fares from Paris to Toronto and Paris to Vancouver. With the trip being right around the corner, I was dealing with reserving hotels, and so on this week. Yesterday, I was about to book three

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Review: JAL 777-300 Class J from Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo CTS

Business Class / By Keishi Nukina / April 9, 2018

Flight Information Date: February 28, 2018 Flight No.: JL503 Route: Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo New Chitose Airline: JAL Japan Airlines Type: Boeing 777-300 Registration: JA8944 My spotting trip to Sapporo at the end of February begun with a flight from Tokyo Haneda to New Chitose airport with Japan Airlines. The flight was operated by one of JAL’s

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