Airline News http://www.airlinereviewer.com/rss/airline-news.xml en-usCopyright © 2007 AirlineReviewer.com <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">The earth conscious traveler may no longer have to worry about flying on a large aircraft in the near future, as billionaire businessman Richard Branson will be testing a jet with renewable fuel early next year.</span> http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsBranson-Betting-on-Biofuel-with-Boeing <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">We&rsquo;ve all been waiting for the day when we can surf the internet while on a long flight.<span>&nbsp; </span>Well the days of just tapping away on the keyboard working on documents or other files may have some high-speed competition coming to the friendly skies.<span>&nbsp; </span>Not simply basic internet access on a dialup modem, but true wi-fi broadband access is coming to an airplane near you.</span> http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsBroadband-Access-at-30,000-Feet So delayed flights have been in the news a lot since this past winter.&nbsp; Although, not all are weather related delays, some are computer problems which cause delays while others are mechanical in nature.&nbsp; Just thank you&#39;re lucky stars that you&#39;re flight was delayed and didn&#39;t have a malfunctioning toilet. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsIs-$500-Compensation-Enough-To-Ride-With-Sewage The British low-cost airline <a href="../UK-reviews/easyJet">easyJet</a> hopes to have a new more efficient, and thus environmetally more friendly, planes in its fleet by 2015.&nbsp; When this plane reaches the market, expect more than just easyJet to be updating its fleet with these economical flying machines. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsSaving-The-Environment-One-Airplane-At-A-Time An airline passenger arriving into Miami today is violently ill, and the CDC is called in as a precautionary measure.&nbsp; Canadian medical testing equipment company makes offer to passengers and crew of the Czech airline that carried a passenger with Tuberculosis. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsHealth-Turbulence-In-The-Air The Russian national airline <a href="../Russia-reviews/Aeroflot">Aeroflot</a> has just placed an order from Boeing, for some new planes.&nbsp; As Aeroflot updates its image and safety record, it&#39;s getting a new fleet of 787&#39;s and A350&#39;s to expand its flight service to more Western Countries as well as China. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsAeorflot-Orders-787-Dreamliners Was your flight delayed today?&nbsp; This time around it&#39;s not the weather&#39;s fault.&nbsp; You can blame the FAA, as the delays that reveberated across multiple carriers in mutliple cities was the culprit.&nbsp; This is no consolation to passengers whose travel plans may have been ruined in the process. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsMore-Flight-Delays-and-Cancellations-Today Yet another airline will be offering all business class seats for Trans-Atlantic flights.&nbsp; However this is not an upstart airline trying to muscle its way into the new upscale segment or airlines.&nbsp; The airline that will be offering this new business class airline is none other than Virgin Atlantic. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsVirgin-Atlantic-to-Start-Business-Class-Airline A new Virgin will be serving US travelers by mid summer when the airline passes final Department of Transportation approval. <a href="../US-reviews/Virgin%20America">Virgin America</a> has tentatively been cleared for flight as it has passed ownership rules and safety reviews by the FAA. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsVirgin-America-Prepares-for-Flight As the weather affects much of the Northeast yet again, many airlines are canceling a large number of flights. The <a href="../">airlines</a> are canceling these flights sooner rather than later and avoiding keeping passengers trapped on grounded planes for hours. The airlines are now trying to get ahead of the weather, and at least keeping travelers happier. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsWith-More-Bad-Weather-Come-Even-More-Cancelled-Flights Sacramento&#39;s airport will now have two daily direct flights to Vancouver. <a href="../Canada-reviews/Air%20Canada">Air Canada&#39;s</a> new flights will add another international destination from the airport. <a href="../Mexico-reviews/Mexicana">Mexicana</a> offers service to and from Mexico with Sacramento, as well as <a href="../US-reviews/Frontier%20Airlines">Frontier&#39;s</a> service that began earlier this month. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsSacramento-Adds-New-International-Carrier <a href="../Sweden-reviews/SAS%20Scandinavian%20Airlines">SAS</a> follows the lead of <a href="../UK-reviews/British%20Airways">British Airways</a> in enacting a voluntary carbon emissions fee to passengers to offset greenhouse gases that are released during flights. The fee doesn&#39;t offset emissions, but compensates for the emissions based on information from <a href="http://www.carbonneutral.com/">the CarbonNeutral Company</a>. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsSAS-Lets-Customers-Pay-Fees-for-Greenhouse-Emission- London City Airport is getting a 70 percent boost in flights thanks to <a href="../UK-reviews/British%20Airways">British Airways</a>. Although the airline states this is a commitment to the city, it could be a defensive play against greater competition to the city from other carriers. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsLondon-City-Airport-Gets-More-British-Airways-Flights <a href="../US-reviews/Hawaiian%20Airlines">Hawaiian Airlines</a> reports an increase in February traffic, but continues to search for an Executive Vice President of Operations as their choice decides to join <a href="../US-reviews/JetBlue%20Airways">Jetblue</a>. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsHawaiian-Airlines-Reports-Increased-Passenger-Traffic <a href="../Japan-reviews/JAL">Japan Airlines</a> reprimands pilot, copilot and flight attendant for photograph in cockpit over Siberia. Although the plane was never compromised during the flight, the company reported the incident. http://www.airlinereviewer.com/newsJAL-Cockpit-Photograph-Incident