Champion Air announces that it will cease flight operations…

Well, sorry I missed this one until now. It looks like another US airline is about to go bust. Champion Air has announced that it plans to cease flight operations on May 31st… Old airplanes and high fuel costs are grounding Champion Air. The charter airline lost customers and failed to attract new investors. By […]

Blogging in Cyberspace

  Blogging is a weird thing. Here I am just writing out my thoughts, experiences and day-to-day randoms, and putting them out there into cyber space for everyone and anyone to read.  When I started I found it hard to imagine that anyone would go out of their way to bother reading what I had […]

ANOTHER Low Cost Airline (Oasis, Hong-Kong) goes bust!

  Wow, fuel prices are a bitch right now. With the price of fuel surging upwards by more than 73% in the past year, Oasis has joined several other airlines in the past month in ceasing operations. I am at a loss for words really, but here goes… Budget airline Oasiswhich offered flights from Gatwick airport […]

I love my pilot!

Just a quickie. Bf would have been due home today, except for the fact that he arranged an additional night’s stay at the ‘away from base’ airport he landed at to catch up with a very good friend of his from his training cadetship days, who is based there. It seems it was for the best […]

Airline Closures (3 in a week!)

Wow. Well, I guess there is a lot to write about over the past few days…  I have just read from varying sources that there have been a few airline closures accross the pond.  Aloha Airlines was the first victim of the week on March 31st, stating on their website that: Unfortunately, unfair competition has succeeded […]

Pilot Fatigue (A poignant addendum to my last post)

Bf has just landed from a VERY short stay in the West Coast of the States. He left at 9am on Friday from one UK airport on his body clock flew the 9.5 hour trip there (arrived at his hotel late in the evening on his body clock, but early afternoon in the States), had less than 24 […]

2 pilots ‘grounded’ after they BOTH fell asleep and overshot their destination airport by 15 miles (despite panicked calls from air traffic controllers)

I don’t know whether to crack up laughing, or be horrified about this one! My gut reaction is is belly laughter for about ten minutes… Then reality sets in and I think about the consequences… Here’s the story:  Dozy pilots sacked after falling asleep and overshooting airport by 15 miles – despite panicked calls from controllers By […]

I like children… But I couldn’t eat a whole one.

My sons , like any other children their age, love to have friends home for ‘sleep-overs’. Bf though, is not into little people belonging to other people; so I tend to indulge their sleep-over requests when he is on a long-haul trip away. This week was the first time that the younger boy has had a friend over […]

I need more hours in the day!

I feel like there isn’t enough of me to go around at the moment! I am writing this from my phone in bed because I can’t sleep! My dad at 62 years of age, has just found himself without work for the first time in his life. He pretty much always owned his own successful […]