2019 was a record year for me, in terms of number of flights and miles travelled: 104 flights 194,296 miles travelled 2019-flights.jpg http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=MDQ-AEP,EZE-ATL,ATL-BRU,BRU-JFK,JFK-DCA,DCA-MSP,MSP-BOI,BOI-SEA,SEA-JFK,LGA-SDF,SDF-DTW,DTW-RDU,RDU-ATL,ATL-LAX,LAX-ATL,ATL-BRU,BRU-DUB,...

Great ! I'm visiting relatives in Miami next year. So far, however, Aer Lingus seems to be cheaper than tuifly, although there's a stopover in Dublin.

Small win: You get to do US immigration in Dublin, and land in Miami as a "domestic" flight.

EWR-YTZ PD Q400

Now I'm jealous
I had planned a flight into Toronto City Airport this summer, but Air Canada cancelled it on the day itself, and in the end I ended up flying to Pearson

That means heavy competition for SN is on the way: LOT will launch flights to Budapest, and now also Wizz Air.

A definite increase in compeition on BRU-BUD!
It looks like a transferral of Wizz's evening CRL-BUD to Brussels BRU.

The airline is only a few months old, meeting terms of employment were agreed only months ago between employer and employee. It is fairly shocking that the employer is seeking to change the contracts so soon.

Round the world, awesome!

Bloomberg reporting that MCAS software was developed and tested by low paid developers in India
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -engineers

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fran ... SKCN1U412B

New aviation tax in France!
(Can only be good news for Belgian airports...)

LOT operating WAW-BRU-WAW with a 787 this morning

United to Newark also had a significant albeit smaller delay.
And Delta's flight to Atlanta was cancelled.

Ryanair to Krakow and Essaouira confirmed:

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/ryan ... 2019-2020/

According to this source, British Airways is looking to add up to six second-hand A380s.

I wonder will they be taking them from Oneworld partner Qatar Airways, who have said they wish to phase out their A380's?

Vueling may move away from an all-Airbus fleet and migrate to the B737 MAX, according to Willie Walsh, CEO of parent IAG. Did Walsh lose some bolts and become nuts? How will his customers react? They're probably cheap to buy now, and will be delivered long after the MAX has proved itself safe :geek:

Flown: MDQ-AEP (Shockingly we took off before the safety demonstration was complete!) EZE-ATL (First time Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport) ATL-BRU BRU-JFK JFK-DCA DCA-MSP MSP-BOI (First time Boise airport) BOI-SEA SEA-JFK LGA-SDF (First time Louisville airport) SDF-DTW (Smooth operations in Detroit des...

The Delta Boeing 767-300ER's have a lovely emergency exit row in Comfort+ section. The Delta Airbus A330-200's do not, but have a warm floor at the Economy (Main Cabin) emergency row, which is great since emergency exit rows can get cold. All that said, the A330-200's are being retrofitted with a ne...

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne ... 88881.html

British Airways to increase Heathrow to Mumbai starting June (at the expense of some Heathrow - Johannesburg frequencies).

United have opted for a new livery which only makes me think of their competitor JetBlue
https://thepointsguy.com/news/united-ne ... irst-look/

https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.co ... oeing-737s

Southwest showing interest in the A220!

Amazing how Alitalia can still survive, whereas Jet Airways has a couple of bad years and is suddenly in deep sh*t.

Nice!