South African Airways was started as state carrier in 1934. It entered jet age in 1960's with introduction of 707's. At the same time the South African Whites Government runs a racial discrimination policy until 1994. This makes SAA banned from flying to many overseas destinaitons. This also makes SAA has to use much longer routing on international

http://www.airbus.com/airbus4u/articles_detail.asp?ae_id=75 Airbus A319CJ is on demonstation in U. S. National Business Aviation Association show in Orlando, Florida. A319CJ and all A320 family members except PW6000 powered A318 are 120-minutes ETOPS compliant, while competitior B737NG is 180-minutes ETOPS compliant. This makes A320 family, as ...

I think Boeing's decision to produce 777-200LR (16000km range, 305 seats) & 777-300ER (13000km range, 368 seats) instead of smaller quads like A340 is the largest joke in aircraft industry. The 2nd largest is Lockheed's decision to produce L-1011 trijet of just 4500km range & hence very poor economy instead of longer range like DC-10 and ...

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2002/nf20020912_7642.htm What good results for Ryanair! It has incredible results of a 58% rise in profits, to 40.1 million euros ($45.3 million), and a 29% increase in revenues, to 194.3 million euros ($219.6 million). It also said easyJet is going to like Jetblue, flying out of major airports and ...

http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_668288.html?menu= How good it would be for Mainland Chinese if Cathay Pacific is allowed to open routes to China, so they can have better traffic to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, which Cathay Pacific is the only Asian carrier to fly South Africa.

Canadian North is a Canada domestic airline based in Calgary serving many Northern Territory and Nunavut destinations. Because of poor conditions of Canada North, Canadian North has to use aircrafts of good takeoff performance, like B737-200 and Fokker F28. But both B737-200 and F28 are long out of production, and the new aircrafts, like A320, ...

Macau, a small city west of Hong Kong of just 400,000 people, did not have air services until 1996, with Macau International Airport was opened. Macau residents has to take ferries to Hong Kong and then fly to other places of the world. The Macanese Government decided to build their own airport in 1980's. Its airport is of very special design, ...

Midwest Express, a First Class-only USA domestic airline, is set up in 1984, and is very unique in the world. It fleet consists of old DC-9 series and MD80 series, and all are configured to 4-abreast leather seats of 33-34'' seat pitch, and cushion width of 21''. The DC-9-14/15 have only 60 seats, 84 seats for DC-9-32, 112-116 for MD80 series. ...

As many people here know, Southwest is the first low cost airline in the world. So I would not say its history here, and would only discuss its special inflight service policies. Southwest recently changed the policy of obesity travel, so obese passengers have to buy 2 seats on travelling. This caused many complaints, because obese passengers are ...

Cebu Pacific Air is started as a Philippines domestic only carrier. Cebu Pacific has one of the lowest cost and highest customer loyality among Philippines carriers, because is offers excellent on-time performance of more than 80% since 1999, and more than 90% of flights have delay less than 15 minutes, much better than competitior Philippines ...