“AN AVIATION SERVICES CO” CELEBRATES COMPANY’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY AND ROLE IN SHAPING THE AVIATION REVOLUTION “AN Aviation Services Co” INNOVATIONS AND LEADERSHIP CONTINUE TO TRANSFORM GROUND HANDLING. “AN AVIATION SERVICES CO” EMPLOYEES CELEBRATE MILESTONE THROUGH...
Ever look out the window of a plane or watch as it pulls up to the gate? Have you ever wondered why some planes have pointy bits at the ends of the wings? What you see are “winglets,” and they have essentially become standard equipment on all new...
A PLANE cabin resembled a bloodstained war zone after a particularly nasty encounter with turbulence, new photographs show. At least five crew members and one passenger needed medical treatment after their Boeing 777 ran into severe turbulence on Monday’s Thai Airways...
Introduced in the 1970s with Pan Am, nothing has ever screamed “American prosperity” quite like a double-decker plane, the Boeing 747. Large enough to destroy even the most claustrophobic passenger’s fears, these airborne islands—with penthouse apartments for business...
We’ve all been there, you’ve finally got comfy on a long-haul flight, made use of the complimentary booze trolley, and just as you start to nod off, the flight attendant wakes you up and lets the harsh light in by yanking the blind back up. WHY? You ask. WHY?! Well,...
An Etihad pilot stopped an international flight so two passengers could get off and visit their dying grandson. The couple’s flight to Abu Dhabi was taxiing at Manchester Airport, in the UK, when they received a text saying that their grandson had just been admitted...
Facebook’s popular chat app Messenger has signed on its first airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, as the social network aims to turn the app into a one-stop shop for commerce, transportation, customer service, and more. KLM flyers will be able to automatically receive...
The dramatic failure of a test flight by Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket last October cost the co-pilot his life and left the pilot severely injured. New data from investigators suggest that the pilot survived in part because the craft essentially came apart...
The world’s shortest commercial flight takes place between the two Orkney Islands, Westray and Papa Westray, just north of Scotland, separated by a distance of only 1.7 miles. Operated by Loganair, the flight duration is officially two minutes, but under ideal wind...
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