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08/29/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Spirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy again — the second time in less than a year. The ULCC says flights and bookings continue as it restructures with plans to shrink its fleet, cut routes, and refocus on core markets.

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08/28/2025

At 170 knots and just 250 feet above the ground, hesitation is fatal. 10 Tanker Air Carrier Captain RK Smithley guides a DC-10 into wildfire skies—where smoke blinds, turbulence thrashes, and every second is a duel with time and gravity. These are among the most perilous missions in aviation, yet he flies them again and again, not for recognition, but because lives depend on it.

What compels a man to steer a jetliner straight into chaos, day after day? The answer is written in a career forged by duty, discipline, and an unshakable sense of purpose. Step into his cockpit, and witness aerial firefighting through the eyes of a 10 Tanker pilot who would never call himself a hero—though you just might.

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08/05/2025

Alaska Airlines continues its international growth with new service to London and Iceland, debuts new 787 livery

06/30/2025

Got to tick off another airport in my travels, yesterday was my first time at MKE. Didn't fly in on this Skywest E175 (came in on a Southwest 737-700 from DAL which I did not get a good photo of). Funny thing is that one of my favorite airlines to fly on in the 1990s was MKE-based Midwest Express but only now have passed through Milwaukee.

But I digress.

These colors still catch my eye as in my mind, they're still Continental colors. If I am not mistaken, flying as United Express is the biggest part of Skywest's flying.

I remember when these colors debuted in Continental's fleet. The first aircraft painted in these colors I think was an Airbus A300 and actually got to ride it not long after the reveal IAH-LAX. Continental had a very tumultous 1980s with Frankie Smooth Talk screwing all the employees over repeatedly. Morale was in the sh***er. Things turned around when Gordon Bethune took over and the new colors were a part of Continental starting a new chapter.

The flight and cabin crew of my A300 flight IAH-LAX were at the gate when that freshly painted A300 was towed to the gate. The captain remarked to me "Do you like those colors? We like 'em. It's the start of a new Continental."

06/20/2025

109 planes. 7 liveries. One incredible legacy. The de Havilland Dash 8 revolutionized regional airline service across the United States and around the world....

06/16/2025

When this striking American Airlines two page advertisement came out in 1988, the airline was coming out of a remarkable period of not just fleet expansion but also network expansion. American was expanding its network in Europe along with Asia when not just a few years earlier, the airline didn't even fly to Asia.

The landmark McDonnell Douglas MD-80 deal had been finalized and just a year after this ad came out, American would order the MD-11.

The "On Time Machine" came from American making the top ranking on Department of Transportation data from September 1987 to February 1988.

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