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Downsizing to Dubai. Blaming the weakening global economy, Emirates pulled its two Airbus A380 planes from its Dubai-to-New York route after just eight months in service and is now flying the smaller Boeing 777 instead. But the airline is still flying the big bird between Dubai and Sydney, London and Toronto, and starting June 1, between Toronto and Bangkok as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Track to Elite: Double Air and Rail Miles | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...Spain's Air Europa will provide daily service between New York's J.F.K. and Madrid's Barajas International Airport starting June 1. The introductory summer fare is just $490 round-trip on the airline's 299-seat Airbus 330 planes. After high season, the round-trip fare drops to $159 for tickets (not including taxes or fees); purchase tickets (midweek flights only) online for travel from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Special: Travel Steals and Freebies | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...arrival of the inaugural flight,” said Condon. The new flights come the same month as Southwest Airlines announced their intent to begin service out of Logan next fall. The San Francisco based airline was launched in 2007 and currently services seven cities with its fleet of Airbus A320 Aircraft...

Author: By Kristi J. bradford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virgin America Comes to Logan | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...case of flight 1549, the pilots of the Airbus A320 made a decision to land in the Hudson River after apparently losing power in both engines. In aviation terminology, that type of landing is referred to as ditching, and as far as jetliners go it remains a fairly rare event. Curtis could only find three other instances when a flight crew of a commercial jetliner intentionally ditched a plane on water - and one of those occurrences that Curtis found, a 1963 incident involving an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu124 en route from Estonia to Moscow, yielded a 100% survival rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Flight 1549: How to Land on Water | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

...service in the skies, Chesley B. Sullenberger III became a hero in a New York minute. On Jan. 15, the pilot, known as "Sully," safely guided all 155 passengers and crew aboard US Airways Flight 1549 to an emergency water landing in the city's frigid Hudson River. The Airbus A320's twin engines had apparently shut down after sucking in a flock of birds. New York Governor David Paterson hailed his exploits as the "miracle on the Hudson." But to those familiar with Sullenberger's background, his grace under pressure seemed less a miracle than a feat befitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chesley B. Sullenberger III | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

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