The skills and expertise of veteran pilots are crucial to airline organizations, as well as to getting you where you need to go. The flight-attendant crew is also an important element in the flying process: Attendants try to keep everything running smoothly on each flight, and they deal ...
The best place to position yourself is on the outdoor balcony of the multi-story Aviator Hotel immediately adjacent to the airfield. Hotel management allows non-guests to take a seat as long as you continue to purchase drinks. It’s helpful to dress professionally and become friendly with your...
We rode it to Flores, Guatemala and back. We rode trains coast to coast in Costa Rica (for $3) Then on a regularly scheduled SANSA DC-3, once landing while standing up behind the pilots! We also rode a CASA 212 Aviocar. On an overnight at our hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica, in ...
The airline employed over 250 personnel in December 1995: pilots, mechanics, and airport staff plus, administration. Item Courtesy: Author’s Collection However, after the brief expansion in late 1995 and a slow reduction in service in early 1996 the airline continued to lose money and load ...
Since the Pan Am pilots and crews had extensive expertise in using flying boats for extreme long-distance over-water flights, the company’s experienced pilots and navigators continued to serve as a civilian flight crew. Success breeds more With the success of the Boeing 314, Pan American ...
airline jobs including Pilots and Stewardesses (later known as Flight Attendants), were held in high regard. These jobs were (and to some extent still are) highly sought-after. Those that held these positions were looked up to by children and often considered ‘dream jobs’. Marketing capitaliz...
At first, pilots tried to make approaches and landings like props, often from circling traffic pattern maneuvers. The problem with this was that pure-jets do not spool up as quickly as a piston engines do and this led to accidents in which rate of sink could not be corrected in time. ...
It also had a completely new flight deck design, requiring only two pilots instead of three or more and incorporating computer screens. TWA introduced this successful aircraft type on 2 December 1982. On 1 February 1985 a TWA 767 operated the first trans-Atlantic scheduled passenger service under...
break the merged airline’s unions and abrogate its labor contracts. One of the ugliest confrontations between airline management and unionized airline employees, the 1983 Continental Airlines pilot strike which led to the airline’s striking pilots being terminated by Lorenzo, would never have ...
The carrier was assisted in its start-up by Air Canada, which provided equipment, aircraft service and training. The lower wing has the AC maple leaf and was worn by Air Canada pilots seconded to Air Jamaica to train the JM pilots. Air Jamaica wore white caps with the orange insignia and...