2017: An Airways Odyssey—Part 1! Folks, it’s been too long since my last post. Believe me, I’m gonna make up for it with a flurry of new posts in the coming week(s)! As you’ve no doubt read, I’ve been on the Airways Magazine Alaska cruise for the past week, and I come back bearing a bounty […]
Secrets of an Airline Freight Dog They call themselves, “Freight Dogs.” They belong to a mythical yet elite outfit called, The Order of the Sleepless Knights. When you go to sleep, they go to work, schlepping boxes 25,000 feet over the countryside, often in aging aircraft, some even without autopilots, through rain, sleet, snow and hail. And, […]
Blogs & Blog Buddies Part 2! Folks, from the flight blog, welcome aboard! Several great new aviation sites have popped up recently, started by none other than our own Blog Buddies! I’ve been Jonesing to tell you all about them, but other aviation stories kept landing on our desk (cough, UAL, cough!) Well, now’s the […]
Air Rage in the (Un)Friendly Skies—What’s Going On? Many of you have been asking for my take on the whole United debacle. I’ve spoken a bit about it on our sister channels (Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CapnAux and Twitter at http://twitter.com/capnaux), and I’ll keep my thoughts brief here, as I’m sure we’re all getting a bit of […]
Aerial Adventures Hong Kong Style! Folks from the flight blog, I hope your 2017 is off to as an adventurous a start as ours has been! We’ve perhaps had it a tad “too adventurous.” We indeed made it out to Hong Kong and back—by the skin of our teeth! Aerial Adventures Hong Kong Style! Part 1: The […]
Adventures of Cap’n Raph! Folks, from the flight deck…I hope you had a grand Thanksgiving weekend. I know I did! Sometimes the stars align, the aviation gods smile upon you…and Adventures ensue! This was one of those weekends. For, my good Blog Buddy Raphaël F, an A320 Captain from Switzerland, was visiting the U.S. Things just […]