One Man Survives Air India Crash That Killed 294: Seated in Exit Row Reuters contributed reporting to this story. In one of the deadliest air disasters in recent history, an Air India flight bound for London’s Gatwick Airport crashed just minutes after taking… Johnny Jet , June 12, 2025
Things Are So Bad For Boeing There’s A New Website To Alert Travelers If They’re On One of Their Planes Things have gotten so bad for Boeing, there’s now a website that will tell travelers if they’re scheduled to fly on one of their planes. It’s no secret that Boeing,… Johnny Jet , March 23, 2024
‘I’m Mystified’: Pilot Unsure How Exactly LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner Just Suddenly Nosedived On Monday, March 11, a 787 Dreamliner operated by LATAM Airlines (Flight #800) was flying between Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. LATAM is a multinational South American airline based… Johnny Jet , March 18, 2024
Former Boeing Manager: ‘I Would Absolutely Not Fly a Max Airplane’ Yesterday, I wrote a tip for travelers who are afraid to fly the 737 Max 9. This comes after the frightening January 5th incident that took place on Alaska Airlines… Johnny Jet , January 31, 2024
What to Do if You’re Booked on a 737 MAX 9 Jet On Friday, Alaska Airlines lost an auxiliary emergency door, also known as a plug door, shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon (PDX). As you can imagine, it was a… Johnny Jet , January 7, 2024
BREAKING: Boeing 737 Max Has A New Issue and 16 Airlines Are Grounding It This is terrible news for Boeing and will probably cause disruption to thousands of travelers as a lot of flights will be canceled. Boeing just sent this news release out,… Johnny Jet , April 9, 2021
One Reason You Might Want to Fly United During COVID Last month, I did a conference call with Boeing executives and airline reporters about the Boeing Confident Travel Initiative. One of my big takeaways was that airplanes that are equipped… Johnny Jet , July 22, 2020
Boeing Talks COVID-19 on Planes: Should Passengers Point the Air Vent on Them to Create a Force Field? Yesterday morning I was on a 7am conference call with Boeing executives and airline reporters. The topic/theme of the call was “Boeing Confident Travel Initiative Briefing.” The call was probably… Johnny Jet , June 16, 2020
How I Feel About Flying on the 737 MAX Back in June, after we published this post, a reader tweeted at me asking how I felt about flying on the 737 MAX. With the plane still grounded (the certification… Johnny Jet , August 27, 2019
Video: Mother and Daughter Pilots Flying a Delta 757 Last week while I was going through my Twitter feed (I’m @JohnnyJet), an image caught my eye. It was of two female pilots, Captain Wendy Rexon and First Officer Kelly… Johnny Jet , March 26, 2019
What to Know If You’ll Be Flying a 737 MAX Following Yesterday’s Ethiopian Airlines Crash Update: The list of countries and airlines that have grounded the 737 MAX is growing. Per CGTN: Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the U.K., Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, Eastar Jet, Ethiopian… Johnny Jet , March 11, 2019
First Look at Singapore Airlines’s New 787-10 I was fortunate to be in North Charleston, SC, this week to witness aviation history in the making. Singapore Airlines (SIA) took delivery of the very first Boeing 787-10 from Boeing… Johnny Jet , March 27, 2018
United’s Farewell Flight to Its Boeing 747 Aloha! If you’re following me on social (my handles are at the bottom), you know I had a whirlwind 24 hours on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. It began by taking… Johnny Jet , November 9, 2017
Video: A Fond Farewell to United’s Boeing 747 If you haven’t noticed by now, most airlines are retiring their old gas-guzzlers and replacing them with more technologically advanced aircraft that use a lot less gas. Sadly, that means… Johnny Jet , October 31, 2017
Video: How Boeing Sells Airlines on New Aircraft I’ve been fortunate to go up to the state of Washington to tour the Boeing plant on multiple occasions (like this time). I always find it fascinating to see how… Johnny Jet , July 5, 2017
