airlines
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Air New Zealand Asks Passengers to Step on the Scale Ahead of Boarding
Air New Zealand is weighing passengers before boarding as part of a month-long survey to gauge the overall weight of the plane. Air New Zealand says it hopes to weigh 10,000 passengers to help pilots better understand the weight and balance of the plane before takeoff.
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A Flight School is Turning a Boeing 727 Into Student Dorms
What was your student dorm like? Mine was a bland, bottom-floor apartment with grey walls, a tiny shared kitchen and a distinct lack of soundproofing. For pupils at a flight school in Alaska, their campus housing is about to get a whole lot more exciting, as the school prepares to convert an old Boeing 727 into…
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Lufthansa Passengers Are Stranded Because of a Severe Tech Outage
Thousands of Lufthansa Airlines passengers were stranded in Germany on Wednesday after an IT outage shut down half of its inbound and outbound flights. The company confirmed the outage on Twitter and Bloomberg reported that several Deutsche Telekom AG fibre optic cables were cut during construction at the Deutsche Bahn rail station in Frankfurt.
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Hawaiian Airlines Will Fly Amazon’s Next Batch of Airbus Cargo Planes
Amazon’s beefing up its already massive international shipping behemoth with around a dozen new Airbus planes operated by Hawaiian Airlines.