I have a tour to USA & Canada from 11 Jun to 25 Jun 2002, and United is the only airline to be taken for the trip (since I join a tour from travel agency & not on our own.) I had a trip from NRT to LAX on 11 Jun, and the experience was quite good. I was sitting on E seat of B747, and a flight attendant on the right aisle saw I was hungry ...

There is no regulation on USA air transport except the terms on air safety, so there are countless numbers of airlines in USA, and there are lots of very short distance routes of less then 300 miles, and of very high frequency. This causes serious congestion of airports on USA north eastern coast. But most other countries have regulation on air ...

This is just a joke, not a real story, so don't take it so seriously. Delta recorded a serious loss of over US$300 million, so the company decided to save operating costs by reducing number of aircrafts operating & making more seats available per aircraft. The company reduced the sizes of the widebody aircraft seats so to cramp more ...

As the title. Asia & Oceania: Like Cathay Pacific, Singapore Air, Air New Zealand Hate airlines of Communist countries (except China) Europe: Like Virgin Atlantic, British Airways & Swissair Hate Aeroflot, Olympic Airways of Greece, and East European airlines. Middle East & Africa: Like Emirates, Gulf Air Hate most airlines ...

It is known that most airlines in the world do not maintain consistent services across its fleets. It is very common to have new aircrafts, like A330, A340, B777, having good interior design, like 80''+ seat pitch flat bed First Class of 4 abreast with divisions, 50''+ seat pitch Business Class with electric assisted recline seats, personal TV on ...

Boeing B777 is the largest twinjet in the world. This design provides unparalled economy for short distance & high passenger amount routes, such as intra-Asia routes. This also explains why Boeing B777 is so popular in Asia. But the twin engine design of B777 makes its operation very constrictive due to ETOPS constraints. This making B777 ...

The news below is just imaginary, DO NOT think it is real. Rolls Royce buys Pratt Whitney Rolls Royce announced today (7 May 2010) it would buy Pratt Whitney large commercial engines division for US$500 million, because of low sales of Pratt Whitney large commercial engines & serious financial loss since 2004. The other divisions of Pratt ...

This is the 3rd article of the 'Widebody aircraft seating classes' series. There are some widebody aircrafts just used for short trips, like Dragonair A330. These aircrafts have less comfortable seats than those used for long trips. For example, Dragonair A330 has 7-abreast 40'' seat pitch Business class, and 6-abreast 60'' seat pitch First ...

Here is the 2nd part of 'Widebody aircraft seating classes' articles. It is not comfortable for passengers to sit in Economy class seats for over 10 hours, epsecially when the seat pitch is narrow, say 30''. So some airlines, like United & Virgin Atlantic, invented Economy Plus class of wider seat pitch. The Economy Plus seats have seat ...

I would like to have discussions on widebody aircraft seating classes. Widebody aircfrats generally have more comfortable seats than those of single aisles because of longer distance covered for widebodies. In 1980's standard the widebody aircraft First Class seats have seat pitch of 60'', width of 20-21'', that is, 5-abreast for B767, 6-abreast ...