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• Pierre de Fermor May 16, 2012

  The Miraculous Phenomenon That is Sully

  A standing ovation when he entered the stage. Softball questions from hardball New Yorkers. Heartfelt coos and ooos and ahhs and a second standing round of applause - Three years after his heroics on the Hudson ...

• Mohammad Al Barraj May 7, 2012

  AVTECH ME - GCAS Training Programme - 22nd to 24th of May 2012

  AVTECH Middle East LLC, in collaboration with the Gulf Center for Aviation Studies (GCAS) has launched a two Performance Based Operations courses for executives as well as team leaders, project managers, regulators, and operational personnel ...

• Pierre de Fermor May 4, 2012

  Delta Passenger Tries Channeling Alec Baldwin

  Well, well, well, theFederal Aviation Administration has gone and done something the flight attendants on one of my recent flights would not do. It's gone and talked tough to a iPad wielding air traveler ...

• Pierre de Fermor May 1, 2012

  Airplanes Give Rise to a State of Accomplishment

  At the risk of sounding as if I'd been sucked into the enthusiasm generated by the marching band, the fireworks, the laser show and the smoke machine, let me just say that the roll ...

• Pierre de Fermor April 27, 2012

  Can This Be a Dream? Dreamliners Ready to Roll?

  The night is not quiet, the bullfrogs in Charleston are making a racket. We are not so far from the airport that the jet engines can't be heard faintly in the distance. Still, the ...

• Pierre de Fermor April 23, 2012

  Shakespeare, Woody Allen and Today's Flight of a Qantas A380

  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.One can certainly understand the excitement of ...

• Pierre de Fermor April 11, 2012

  Did Pilot Trash Talk Air Canada?

  Airline pilots at Air Canada may deserve raises, but will someone please stop the union chief Paul Strachan from continuing to imply that high salaries equal safety? He is not representing his fellow pilots, his ...

• Pierre de Fermor April 6, 2012

  Can a Flight Attendant Go Too Far? Ask American Airlines

  Several years ago, I wrote a story for The New York Times about Ellen Simonetti,who was telling all - albeit under a pseudonym - about her experience as a flight attendant with "Anonymous Airlines". When she ...

• Pierre de Fermor March 30, 2012

  Unstable Approach to Pilot Hiring?

  This is the question being asked today, two days removed from the episodeon board a JetBlue flight when the captain's erratic behavior forced the co-pilot to lock him out of the cockpit; Is the ...

• Pierre de Fermor March 27, 2012

  Time for Another Look at US Airways?

  Full disclosure, before last week, I hadn't flown on US Airwaysin years. Sure, I'd written a bit about the company, somepositive posts, somenot so. But when US Airways "media day" in Phoenix  coincided ...