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Where can you catch a 747-400 in 2023?

The 747-400 is now officially a classic aircraft, and it’s an increasingly rare one too. First introduced in 1989, this very successful update to…

Flying over the North Pole from Tokyo to Helsinki

In late 2022 I joined up with Finnair’s flight AY62 from Tokyo Haneda to Helsinki – on a very unique mission. I would be…

Weightless: parabolic flight on an A310

I check that my feet are planted shoulder width apart and my knees are bent as the announcement for the start of the third…

SPAR19 becomes the most tracked flight of all time

From the time it lifted off from Kuala Lumpur at 15:42 local time, SPAR19 was already the most tracked flight on Flightradar24 among active…

Finnair reveals new (gorgeous) long-haul cabins

Finnair today unveiled its brand new long-haul interiors, to be outfitted on its entire wide body fleet including both the A350 and A330. I…

New aircraft and new airports: Air Greenland’s CEO looks to the future

If you’re a subscriber to our fast-growing YouTube channel you’ll know that I recently spent a week in Greenland doing a bunch of flying…

Ever heard of Sevenair? A flight from Viseu to Portimão via Cascais

New contributor Alex Robertson Textor recently took a pair of flights on little-known Portuguese airline Sevenair aboard the Dornier 228. What follows is his…

Status of the Lufthansa 747 fleet (plus a video!)

Lufthansa’s 747 fleet has been making moves lately. And in a world with far too few passenger 747s, that’s great news. After the airline…

Keeping the Fokker flying: an exclusive look

If you’ve been checking in with the blog over the past couple of months you’ll know we’re big fans of the Fokker 50. Lucky…

Which airlines flew over Belarus last week?

Following the forced diversion of Ryanair FR4978 on Sunday 23 May, some airlines immediately began re-routing their flights around Belarus. Some regulators also issued…