My last two trips have been unusual in that both captains that I flew with own and fly their own aircraft – and both own more than one. On the first of the two trips, a 9-day trip back and forth to Europe, the captain was a fairly quiet guy who kept to himself. I [...]

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Since my last post I have completed a 9-day trip to Europe and a 7-day stay at home and a 12-day trip to Asia. To say that I am whipped is a bit of an understatement. The European trip included 6 crossings of the Atlantic and reinforced my desire to do more Orient flying. Atlantic [...]

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My last couple of airline trips have been to Europe but this month the magic bidding machine gave me a 10-day Pacific trip. It started out really well – a deadhead (DH) leg to a layover.  That rough day was followed by a flight to Honolulu for a 42-hour layover. After that we had to [...]

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We successfully completed another two crossings of the North Atlantic to complete our six-day trip. Our flight back to Europe was with the same plane with the inoperative APU that had caused us all the problems on the previous crossing. This time, however, things went smoothly. One important factor was that the plane had been [...]

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