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If the fractional industry’s 800-lb. gorilla is bulking up by hiring new pilots, is that good or bad for the rest of the industry? No, we don’t have the answer — yet — but we might by the end of the year. NetJets Aviation said last week that it plans to hire some 450 additional […]

Virgin America, the U.S. stepchild of Richard Branson’s Virgin brand, has started hiring pilots for its base in San Francisco. The new airline is looking for six experienced pilots right now to help with starting up, then will hire more than 100 pilots later this year to staff its fleet of 33 Airbus 320-family jets. […]

Killer Kites Re: Hitting a kite (NewsWire, Jan. 23):I was the Captain on a B727-200 inbound to LAX Runway 25R several years ago and on short final we noticed a kite flying just short of the approach end of the runway and could not avoid it without causing a traffic conflict. We continued the approach […]

Strangely enough, though, we haven’t heard a whisper of complaint from a planeload of New Year’s revelers who were stranded in Bali for three days. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Skywest flight left Port Hedland on New Year’s Eve and was supposed to return later that night. But a faulty warning light grounded […]

Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin’, we’re going to do something that they said couldn’t be done — arrive on time in Newark on Christmas Eve.This feat is harder during the Christmas season than almost any other. In addition to unusually high passenger loads, icy weather and high winds, we airline crews are dealing […]

Submit a Photo |Rules | Tips | Questions Current POTW Winner | Past POTW Winners We’re always amused when a theme crops up in any given batch of “Picture of the Week” entries. Since (presumably), our dozens of submitters aren’t in cahoots, it’s interesting to note when a large percentage of our photo entries share […]

When Hurricane Katrina left the Gulf Coast devastated, general-aviation aircraft and pilots were there to help. AVweb reports on what has been done so far and what else we can do. The First Week The Storm Hurricane Katrina hit Florida first, killing 11 people as it passed over the peninsula on Aug. 25 with 80 […]

Chinese officials are predicting general aviation will be worth $9 billion annually there in 10 years and western companies are now establishing ground-floor opportunities there. Diamond Aircraft, in partnership with Binzhou Degao General Aviation Co. in East China’s Shandong Province, is set to start building DA40 aircraft with the first one rolling off the assembly […]

The 1919 Vickers Vimy replica has reached St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, its departure point for the attempt by Steve Fossett and Mark Rebholtz to re-create the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Brown. Fossett and Rebholtz will launch for County Galway, Ireland, as soon as weather permits… The FAA has issued […]

One thing that continues to amaze me about General Aviation, not just here in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport, but everywhere I fly and visit, is the number of pilots who selflessly expend considerable sums of their own money and time to help others. I once tried to analyze why so many pilots […]