If you have a keen eye you may have been sat in an airport terminal and watched the airplanes landing then all of sudden they seem to be landing and taking off from the other direction. There is a...
Posts by Rick James
After flying in and out of many, many airports over my career I got to wondering which are the biggest. I've been to most of the 'Big 5' in the U.S. but I wanted to know which was the biggest,...
Airline Alliances 101: What They Are & Why Airlines Join Them?
If you fly frequently, you may have heard that airlines are part of an ‘airline alliance’. Since the 1990s, these alliances have grown in considerable popularity. Today, virtually every major...
We have all been on a commercial flight and immediately after the cabin door is shut, the flight attendants ask you to turn on 'Airplane Mode' on your tablet or smartphone. You might have wondered...
I remember seeing my first seaplane on a trip to Seattle many decades ago and seeing this airplane practically clipping the rooftops of houses before landing in the bay right next to the city. This...
A friend of mine recently asked me a question where he has seen many videos of big airplanes just appearing out of the clouds and landing, but yet he has never seen any videos of small airplanes...