Valentine’s Day is a perfect day for lovers to honor their commitment to one another, but it’s also a great day for all those unattached folks out there to celebrate their independence! Check out the recent history of aviation nuptials: 2007 – America West and US Airways 2008 – Delta and Northwest 2010 – Southwest [...]
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August 19th, 2012
Happy National Aviation Day!
Today is National Aviation Day, a time in the United States when we celebrate the fastest (and arguably most fascinating) mode of transportation – air travel. The holiday was created in 1939 by former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to honor Orville Wright on his birthday, the first man, along with his brother Wilbur, to successfully [...]
June 20th, 2012
First FAA-Certified Carrier to Fly Special RNP AR Approaches!
We’re the first Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-certified carrier in the United States to utilize the new satellite-based Special (Non-Public) Required Navigation Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR) approaches to Runways 13L and 13R at our home base at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport with our fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft. These unique Special Performance-Based [...]
June 8th, 2012
Dave Attends RTCA Annual Symposium
Our CEO Dave was in Washington earlier this week to speak at the RTCA’s Annual Symposium – an important industry event where aviation leaders came together to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the NextGen technology that will help reshape operations in the future. RTCA, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation that develops consensus-based recommendations [...]
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