Pilots aren't supposed to let attractive passengers join them up front. Even when the passenger is a porn star. Or a Playboy Bunny. They're supposed to fly the plane not film flight attendants having sex, look at porn in the cockpit, or check Facebook. ...

Students at Putin’s Top Pilot School Filmed in Bizarre BDSM Music Video and more...  In This Issue...  Students at Putin’s Top Pilot School Filmed in Bizarre BDSM Music Video  $40 Buys Etihad Residence Lounge Access at New York JFK  Incredible Cabin Video as American Passengers Told to Brace for Emergency Landing  Emirates Saves the Airbus A380 With Big New Order  China Will Experiment Letting Airlines Set Their Own Prices  American Airlines Gets Played By Delta — Again  Etihad Almost Bought the Worst Airline in the World  American CEO Doug Parker: At Least We’re Not Attaching Crew Seats to the Lavatory Doors  More Recent Articles Students at Putin’s Top Pilot School Filmed in Bizarre BDSM Music Video Pilots aren't supposed to let attractive passengers join them up front. Even when the passenger is a porn star. Or a Playboy Bunny. They're supposed to fly the plane not film flight attendants having sex, look at porn in the cockpit, or check Facebook. Let alone this. But what they do on the ground when not in class doesn't concern me so much. As long as they pay attention in the cockpits of Aeroflot and S7 this doesn't bother me. Continue reading Students at Putin’s Top Pilot School Filmed in Bizarre BDSM Music Video...          • Email to a friend •   $40 Buys Etihad Residence Lounge Access at New York JFK Etihad has been on a crash course lately to stop the bleeding from unprofitable airline investments, cut costs, and monetize premium services where they can. Now they're selling Residence lounge access at New York JFK even though Etihad offers double-daily A380 service between New York and Abu Dhabi. Continue reading $40 Buys Etihad Residence Lounge Access at New York JFK...          • Email to a friend •   Incredible Cabin Video as American Passengers Told to Brace for Emergency Landing This week was the anniversary of the US Airways 1549 'Miracle on the Hudson'. When imagining a plane full of passengers bracing for impact it's hard not to think about the scene inside that plane from Sully whose dramatization of that flight made the entire movie. Yesterday an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Dallas Fort-Worth operated by a Mesa CRJ-900 made an emergency landing and video from inside the cabin of passengers being told to brace and preparing to evacuate is incredible. Continue reading Incredible Cabin Video as American Passengers Told to Brace for Emergency Landing...          • Email to a friend •   Emirates Saves the Airbus A380 With Big New Order Airbus has been telling anyone that would listen that if Emirates didn't place a new A380 order they'd shut down the program. The plane would enter a death spiral. Without an ongoing program for the aircraft, the value of the Emirates fleet would drop and replacement parts for the aircraft would become harder to get. Emirates placed an order for 36 more Airbus A380s adding to the 101 currently in their fleet and the 41 already on order. That will bring their total A380 fleet to 178 — if they take delivery of all the aircraft. Continue reading Emirates Saves the Airbus A380 With Big New Order...          • Email to a friend •   China Will Experiment Letting Airlines Set Their Own Prices China is beginning to liberalize in much the same way the US did 40 years ago. In 1976 – two years prior to deregulation – the Civil Aeronautics Board 'experimented with price competition'. China is doing that, allowing airlines to set their own prices on about 300 routes: "domestic routes that have at least five carriers competing." Continue reading China Will Experiment Letting Airlines Set Their Own Prices...          • Email to a friend •   American Airlines Gets Played By Delta — Again American Airlines keeps playing Delta's 'greater fool'. The biggest move was giving up their reach into India and the surrounding region, tricked by Delta. in a play that helps Delta and no one else. This time they've been put in check by Delta in China. Continue reading American Airlines Gets Played By Delta — Again...          • Email to a friend •   Etihad Almost Bought the Worst Airline in the World Pakistan International Airlines is the worst airline in the world. Best known for sacrificing a goat for safety and flying with more passengers than seats (and making customers stand for 1700 miles), the airline's CEO was actually detained as a result of his efforts to provide good seats and service by wet leasing aircraft from SriLankan. Continue reading Etihad Almost Bought the Worst Airline in the World...          • Email to a friend •   American CEO Doug Parker: At Least We’re Not Attaching Crew Seats to the Lavatory Doors Over the weekend I wrote about problems with American's Boeing 737 MAX and in particular "design flaws" with the lavatory. It was revealing to me that American Airlines CEO Doug Parker says he hasn't flown on the controversial plane. I shared this Q&A with an employee who described the 737 Max as "Mini." Continue reading American CEO Doug Parker: At Least We’re Not Attaching Crew Seats to the Lavatory Doors...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles How Airlines Assign Flight Numbers and Emirates Exaggerates Its Economy Class EVA Air's Bold Vision With Their New Safety Video Was to Create Actual Art       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." 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