Articles by Daniel Mena

TRIP REPORTS 01/31/2020 United Airlines E175 | Austin to Washington On January 3rd, I flew to Austin for the day to take photos of airplanes. After a wonderful day of plane spotting, it was time to head home. Here is a recount of my trip aboard United Airlines Regional First Class from Austin to Washington. Read More →

NEWS 01/31/2020 Coronavirus Prompts Airlines to Cancel Flights to China Many have heard of the new Coronavirus, a virus that has taken hundreds of lives and spread to thousands of people. The outbreak of this virus has caused many people to avoid travel to China, where the epicenter of the virus is located. Because of the empty flights, airlines are not making revenue off of these flights, so temporarily cancelling these flights would save the airlines money and time. Read More →

NEWS 01/25/2020 Boeing 777X Makes its First Flight Earlier today, thousands of people watched as an all new variant of the Boeing 777, the 777X made its first flight. The brand new 777, N779XW, departed from Paine Field at 10:30AM local time. After a few hours of flight tests and photography, the plane landed at Boeing Field, also located in Washington State. Read More →

NEWS 01/09/2020 First United 787 With New Polaris to Fly This Wednesday Originally set to take the skies in mid December, the Boeing 787-8 had some setbacks with its retrofit. But, after one more month, the 787-8, N27908, is set to take its first full flight this coming Wednesday, January 15, from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Read More →

INFORMATIONAL 12/23/2019 A New Uber, but For Airplanes A new app was released, named BlackBird, which pairs private pilots to customers for as little as $50 per flight, is becoming more and more popular in the California area. Is it safe? Read More →

STORIES 12/20/2019 My Early-Morning Plane Spotting Session in Amsterdam Recounting my experience of spotting at Amsterdam Schipol's most famous plane spotting location, the Polderbaan. Read More →

NEWS 12/20/2019 Air France Retires Their First A380 Air France retired their first Airbus a380 last Saturday. They plan to retire their 9 other A380s by 2022. Read More →

ROUTES 12/20/2019 Lufthansa to Change A350 to A340 on MUC-IAD Daily Service Lufthansa has recently announced that they will change their daily MUC-IAD-MUC from an Airbus A350-900 to an A340-600 beginning in March. Read More →