A revised suggestion of Hong Kong - Brazil air route suggestion is made after reading comments on the 1st edition of the air route. This new air route would have routing of Hong Kong -> Los Angeles -> Rio De Janeiro -> Sao Paolo -> Los Angeles -> Hong Kong, having frequency of 1 flight per week, operated by Cathay Pacific & ...

There are many low cost airlines in Europe, but unlike USA, which has low cost airlines of very different inflight services (Jetblue offers best entertainment, Frontier features generous 33'' seat pitch, some carriers like Frontier & American Trans Air offer free meals on long flights), the European low cost airlines have very similar inflight ...

There are 2 families of widebody trijet invented in 1970's after the invention of Boeing B747, the first widebody aircraft in the world, Douglas DC-10 & Lockheed L-1011. The L-1011 was the most advanced aircraft in 1970's, which is the first aircraft in the world featuring fly-by-wire system, earlier than Airbus A320. It is also installed with

There are much more choices for 50-100 seats aircrafts than 100+ seats aircrafts, with types ranging from turboprop to wing-mounted jets to fuselage-mounted jets, from 4-abreast to 6-abreast Economy Class, from low wing design to high wing design, from baggage space placed after the passenger cabin to the space placed between the cockpit & the ...

The closed Kai Tak airport is of very backward 1960's terminal design, with only 10 fixed boarding gates, hence most passengers had to board on an aircraft via shuttle buses & movable boarding ladders. What a joke for such rich & advanced city of Hong Kong to have such backward airport until 1998, when Chek Lap Kok airport was opened! In ...

As you know, there are lots of immigrants from Asia to Canada, especially that of Hong Kong, China & Taiwan. So I think of feasibility of operating a Canada-based airline with rich Asian colours. The airline would have hubs in Vancouver & Toronto initially, flies to many USA & Canada destinations, as well as many Transpacific flights ...

I found a UK comsumer information website, stating the reason for Air Canada - Canadian Airlines merger. <a href=''http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/reports/443air.htm''>http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/reports/443air.htm</a> It said the airlines are merged due to Canadian Airlines' poor financial situaiton for years ...

The Hong Kong - Taiwan flight rights was just revised in late Jun 2002, with Dragonair granted right to operate Hong Kong - Taipei route that is already operated by another Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific. This makes it the 1st airline route operated by more than one Hong Kong-based operator, hence breaking the policy of 'only one Hong ...

The Hong Kong law on airline operation was changed since mid 2004, so there can be more than one Hong Kong-based airline serving any one airline route. Because of this, many leading Hong Kong property developers, like Cheung Kong - Hutchison, Henderson, Sun Hung Kei, The Wharf Group, Sino Land, New World, were agreed to set up a new airline called

There were lots of complaints on Delta from all over the USA, after the change of Delta aircraft seats to only 30'' seat pitch, as well as discovery of Delta's poor service on many USA national TV channels. Because of this, other major carriers airlines like American, United, Northwest - Continental alliance (which are later merged as Northwest) ...