According to a press release from the airline, fliers on A330 Airbus planes operated by Virgin will be able to use cell phones in the air, to text or talk.
Reuters | Kyle Peterson and Tim Hepher | Posted 05.04.2012
By Kyle Peterson and Tim Hepher CHICAGO/PARIS (Reuters) - There are, so the industry saying goes, only three secrets in the commercial ...
Christine Negroni | Posted 04.23.2012
Both Woody Allen and William Shakespeare have words of wisdom regarding the momentous flight today of Qantas Airlines' newly resurrected Airbus A380. Don't believe me? Keep reading.
Christine Negroni | Posted 03.25.2012
Everyone who did not go on a wild ride in a Toyota may be sick to death of the subject just as many people are tired of the debate over whether portable electronic devices should be allowed on flights below 10,000 feet.
AP | By GEIR MOULSON | Posted 01.20.2012
BERLIN -- Europe's air safety authority told airlines Friday to inspect nearly a third of the world's A380 superjumbo jets within about six weeks afte...
AP | By GENE JOHNSON | Posted 12.08.2011
SEATTLE -- Applause and cheers rang out after Unionized Boeing Machinists voted overwhelmingly to approve a four-year contract extension – a dea...
www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.14.2011
A new book has revealed the final words of the cockpit crew of doomed Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the South Atlantic off the coast of Br...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 11.28.2011
EVERETT, Wash. -- Imagine a plane that reduces vibrations from turbulence to the point where the ride is smooth even during landing. A plane with enou...
Scott Poynton | Posted 11.20.2011
Driving to work this morning, I wondered at the morning light, golden in the fields, Mont Blanc poking its head above the clouds, the Jura Mountains a...
Posted 10.24.2011
Delta Airlines will add 100 Boeing jets to its fleet in the coming years, a more than $8 billion investment that will replace less efficient planes wi...
Martin Rivers | Posted 09.05.2011
Beyond the brinkmanship and legal wrangling, Europe's path is clear. The ETS has committed to cutting emissions 21 percent against 2005 levels by 2020.
AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 08.23.2011
LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world's biggest planemaker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of ord...
Posted 08.16.2011
PARIS - Passenger jet sales will reach $4 trillion over the next 20 years, Boeing predicted on Thursday as it hiked demand forecasts on the eve of...
AOL Travel News | Posted 08.13.2011
Invisible planes? Not quite Wonder Woman invisible plane, but Airbus released media galore of their future tech transparent plane concept for 2050 as ...
Christine Negroni | Posted 07.18.2011
Before investigators wrap up the Flight 32 investigation, they should be sure it isn't written up as a near-disaster, successfully completed by a crew of heroes and an exceptional plane.
Christine Negroni | Posted 07.04.2011
After the crash of Flight 447, I faced the Twitter paradox: How can my 16-year-old son, using his cell phone, know his friends' every move, while multi-million dollar airliners are unable to transmit critical information?"
Peter Mandel | Posted 06.18.2011
The flakes have mushroomed into a blizzard. We reach 'decision' speed (where there is not enough runway left to stop) and this is the second that Cavender tells me that our number two engine is out.
AP/The Huffington Post | By TOM McELROY | Posted 06.11.2011
NEW YORK -- A wing of an Airbus A380, the world's biggest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart John...
Christine Negroni | Posted 06.06.2011
Despite the fact that no one yet knows what happened to Flight 447, the French government recently filed manslaughter charges against Airbus and Air France.
Posted 05.31.2011
Planemaker Boeing received at least $5.3 billion of dollars of banned U.S. subsidies, the World Trade Organization said Thursday. The subsidies...
Posted 05.30.2011
A long-running transatlantic trade dispute over illegal state handouts for Airbus and Boeing comes to a head Thursday with the latest ruling from ...
Posted 05.25.2011
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) sealed deals worth $10 billion with two airlines in China, the world'...
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
The business logic for protecting nature has always been a harder sell than making the case for other green initiatives. Dow is now tackling this issue, working with The Nature Conservancy to try and make the business logic clearer.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the high-stakes, international trading bazaar for large commercial jets, where tens of billions of dollars are on the line, along with hundred...
SmarterTravel | Posted 05.17.2012