Jul
31
Today’s Schedule - July 31, 2007 with Pics
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A very early morning and long day to start back to work after a couple days off. Today, I started a two day trip that ends tomorrow. After tomorrow, I have 4 days of reserve. Being on reserve is comparable to being on call. I have to be an 1 hour and 15 min from [...]
Jul
31
Skybus Keeps on Soaring!
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A few months ago, a new startup and extremely low fare carrier Skybus has launched service out of Columbus, Ohio. With only 5 Airbus A319s and serving 11 cities nationwide, this new low fare carrier seems to be doing quite well.
On all their flights, they have a 10 tickets for $10 plus taxes! That is [...]
Jul
30
Today at PilotJohn.com, I am extremely happy to release a new section on this site. In an effort to promote the wonderful thing we call flying and the people around the internet that have the same passion as myself, PilotJohn.com’s new section called AVwards is doing just that. This is the first award of AVwards, [...]
Jul
30
Northwest Cancellations Surge…Again!
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Reports from Detroit newspapers that Northwest has canceled over 200 flights this past weekend due to pilots working their maximum amount of hours for the month. Northwest’s pilot contract allows their pilots to only work 90 hours per month. The FAA limit for a pilot per month is 100 flight hours. If a pilot worked [...]
Jul
29
A Rough Weekend for Air Shows
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As we know anything involved in aviation is extremely dangerous. Everyone understands those risks otherwise we would not be flying the skies. Driving a car down the road is even more dangerous than cruising the friendly skies, but this weekend the skies were not friendly at two different air shows.
In Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Friday, two [...]