Jan 16, 2022
Join, Carlos, Nev, Armando and Matt for this week's programme.
In this week's show Qantas get their A380's into money making mode, Japan starts to let your pets on board & one passenger decides the flight deck is better than the cabin. Nev shares with us his latest experience on a short hop to Edinburgh and back.
In the military, the FAA shuts down the airspace on the west coast, A B-52 is trekking across the USA, and USAF Special Operations flight makes a stop at Teeside Airport in Newcastle.
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Here are the links to the stories we featured this week :
COMMERCIAL
FLAGSHIP QANTAS A380 RETURNS TO PASSENGER SERVICE
https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/qantas-a380-prepares-for-return-to-commercial-service/
Two Ryanair planes narrowly avoided crash, investigation
finds
https://avherald.com/h?article=4f2f0895
https://www.airportia.com/news/two-ryanair-b738-at-malaga-on-sep-11th-2019-departing-and-landing-aircraft-on-runway-at-the-same-time/
https://www.mitma.es/recursos_mfom/comodin/recursos/in-049-2019_final_report_nm.pdf
The World’s Busiest Routes In 2021
https://simpleflying.com/worlds-busiest-routes-2021/
https://resources.cirium.com/cirium-airline-insights-review-2021
8,000 Delta Airlines employees tested positive for COVID-19 over
four weeks
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/01/13/Delta-Airlines-8000-employees-tested-postive/5641642086614/
3,000 United Airlines Employees Have Coronavirus, But Zero Are
Hospitalized
https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-airlines-employees-coronavirus/
FedEx air shipments delayed as omicron variant sickens
pilots
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-air-shipments-delayed-as-omicron-variant-sickens-pilots
Spaceship-Like Electric Aircraft 'Alice' Prepares for its First
Flight
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43838/spaceship-like-electric-aircraft-alice-prepares-for-its-first-flight-in-these-awesome-images
Pilot With Paraplegia Gets Cirrus Jet Type Rating!
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/2022/01/06/pilot-with-paraplegia-gets-cirrus-jet-type-rating/
Aircraft crashes close to people on Graveley golf course
https://www.thecomet.net/news/aircraft-crash-lands-chesfield-downs-golf-course-graveley-8610320
https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/G-OPAR/973199
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-opar
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/273972
One of the newest airlines in the US is tackling the pilot
shortage by paying them more and hiring from Australia
https://www.businessinsider.com/breeze-airways-raising-pilot-pay-and-hiring-australian-pilots-shortage-2022-1
Delta Removes Degree Requirement for Prospective Pilots
https://www.flyingmag.com/delta-removes-degree-requirement-for-prospective-pilots/?fbclid=IwAR0ZckkhL_hGfxqw_jcVplJH509MkStpv9p4dRei5iqdHqvpldCr0rgRmNc
All 4 occupants of a Medical Helicopter, including infant,
survive crash.
https://6abc.com/upper-darby-helicopter-crash-delaware-county-chopper-accident-drexel-hill-united-methodist-church/11456415/
https://www.inquirer.com/news/medical-helicopter-crash-drexel-hill-united-methodist-church-upper-darby-20220111.html
Japanese airline to allow pets on board as industry reels from
pandemic hit
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220111/p2a/00m/0bu/027000c
Passenger storms into American Airlines cockpit at Honduras
airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394435/American-Airlines-passenger-storms-cockpit-flight-Honduras-Miami-causing-eight-hour-delay.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/passenger-breaks-into-cockpit-american-airlines-honduras-airport-2022-01-12/
https://www.facebook.com/golfcharlie232/posts/4799671113458415
Youngest woman to fly solo around the world arrives in Saudi
Arabia
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999686/saudi-arabia
MILITARY
FAA's Statement On Mysterious Air Traffic Halt Leaves More
Questions Than Answers
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43840/faas-statement-on-mysterious-air-traffic-halt-leaves-more-questions-than-answers
Heavy Traffic: A B-52 Bomber Is Being Trucked Across The Central
United States
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43784/heavy-traffic-a-b-52-bomber-is-being-trucked-across-the-central-united-states
https://twitter.com/hashtag/b52roadtrip?src=hashtag_click
Taiwan suspends F-16 training missions after jet crashes
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-air-force-searches-missing-f-16-fighter-after-crash-2022-01-11/
Aircraft from US Airforce stop at Teesside Airport to refuel
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19841121.aircraft-us-airforce-stop-teesside-airport-refuel/