Commercial News Archives — Avgeekery.com https://avgeekery.com/category/news/commercial-aviation/ Aviation News and History From An Informed Perspective Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:26:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://avgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-avgeekerylarge1-32x32.jpg Commercial News Archives — Avgeekery.com https://avgeekery.com/category/news/commercial-aviation/ 32 32 104229628 A United Plane’s Tire Fell on Some Cars While Taking off from SFO https://avgeekery.com/a-united-planes-tire-fell-on-some-cars-while-taking-from-sfo/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:40:06 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=34530 A United plane’s tire fell on some cars while taking off from SFO. The incident occurred shortly before noon, and it was even caught on video by YouTuber avgeek Cali…

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]]> 34530 Canadian Discount Airline To Shut Down https://avgeekery.com/canadian-discount-airline-to-shut-down/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:35:55 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=34233 Canadian discount airline Lynx Air is calling it a day. The upstart discount airline promised to bring low fares to Canadian travelers. Just two years after commencing operations, the airline…

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]]> 34233 Ural Airlines Abandons Plan to Fly Airbus A320 Out of Field https://avgeekery.com/ural-airlines-abandons-plan-to-fly-airbus-a320-out-of-field/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:54:16 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=34092 Russian media reports indicate that Ural Airlines has abandoned plans to fly an Airbus A320 from a Siberian wheat field. The crew of the ill-fated jetliner made an emergency landing…

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]]> 34092 Flying The Rare Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 https://avgeekery.com/the-rare-lufthansa-airbus-a340-600/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:14:51 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=34015 My Epic Two Year Journey To Fly On The Dying Breed of Airbus A340-600 Widebodies October 2021 – Initial Plans: In October of 2021, Covid seemed to be in its…

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]]> 34015 Former Boeing Manager Ed Pierson Continues Whistleblowing After 737 Max 9 Door Incident https://avgeekery.com/watch-former-boeing-mgr-ed-pierson-whistleblowing/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 01:56:37 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=33933 Former Boeing Mgr Ed Pierson continues to call out Boeing leadership following a recent incident with an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 where a door-sized section of the plane came…

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]]> 33933 Supersonic Comeback? Meet NASA’s X-59 Quesst https://avgeekery.com/supersonic-comeback-meet-nasas-x-59-quesst/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:49:44 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=33851 NASA and Skunk Works Unveils Experimental Vehicle That Turns Sonic Booms Into Sonic Thumps Are we on the verge of a commercial supersonic comeback? America’s space agency is determined to…

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]]> 33851 A New CEO is Taking Over JetBlue https://avgeekery.com/a-new-ceo-is-taking-over-jetblue/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:24:06 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=33781 A new CEO is taking over JetBlue and she will be the first woman in the country to lead a major U.S. airline. Company President & COO Joanna Geraghty is…

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]]> 33781 Kalitta Charters II Will Retire Their Last 727s in 2024 https://avgeekery.com/kalitta-charters-ii-will-retire-their-last-727s-in-2024/ Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:44:15 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=33572 Kalitta Charters II has announced they will retire their last 2 operational Boeing 727-200(f)s in 2024. Planes N726CK (MSN 21951) and N729CK (MSN 22982) are currently still flying out of…

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]]> 33572 Airline Fires Crew, Bans YouTuber Over Critical Flight Review https://avgeekery.com/airline-fires-crew-bans-youtuber-over-critical-flight-review/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:19:36 +0000 https://avgeekery.com/?p=33557 Qatar Airways is under fire after allegedly firing crew members involved in a video shot by popular YouTube aviation vlogger and airline critic Josh Cahill.  Cahill, a Czech-Australian based in…

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