by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 8, 2013 | Airlines |
A few days ago, SWISS announced a substantial upgrade to their “Inflight Entertainment” (IFE) options. Part of the upgrade is to increase the “SWISSNESS” of the IFE options by focusing on Swiss films and music.
Starting July 1, long haul passengers will begin seeing a larger selection of options. According to the SWISS press release, a focus was made on entertainment for kids and young travelers. This should be a welcomed change for travel-weary parents! As part of this expansion the SWISS inflight magazine will have an enhanced children’s section
Swiss indicated that between now and October, the IFE menu will gradually increase from 90 to 130 offerings. Part of this expansion will be the increase of Swiss based offerings from Swiss filmakers and musicians.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 8, 2013 | Airlines |
It’s been a relatively light past 7 days as far as route announcements are concerned. Out of the 5 route announcements, 3 belong to Air China and one each to ANA and Singapore Airlines.
AIR CHINA:
Beijing-Bangkok effective October 27 will increase from 2x/day to 3x/day.
Beijing-Frankfurt effective October 27 is reduced from 14x/week to 11x/week.
Shanghai-Frankfurt effective October 27 is reduced from 1x/day to 6x/WEEK.
ANA:
Tokyo(NRT)-Chicago effective September 13 will increase from 1x/day to 2/day.
SINGAPORE AIRLINES:
Singapore-London(LHR) effective between October 1 and October 26 will be reduced from 4x/day to 3x/day.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 6, 2013 | Airlines |
An example of an Asiana 777 (this one is not the one involved in the crash)
At approximately 11:30 am local time on July 6, an Asiana Boeing 777 (HL7742) crashed in San Francisco as it was arriving from Seoul, South Korea. According to a few news outlets, there may have been up to 2 fatalities and upwards of another 100-120 injuries.
The details of the crash are still unfolding so obviously there will be a lot of misinformation floating out there (for example, FoxNews stated that Asiana was a oneworld member). I’ve been following the accounts of the major news networks and each seem to have a slightly different version of what may have happened.
Apparently it looks as though the aircraft landed short of runway 28 which caused it’s landing gear to collapse and send the aircraft into a skid off the side of the runway. Here is a link to the Air Traffic Control exchange with the Aircraft minutes before the crash landing (from www.LiveATC.net).
Considering that the aircraft was carrying more than 300 passengers, this disaster could have been far worse.
According to the FAA and NTSB, investigators are on the scene so I think we’ll start hearing what really happened fairly soon.
