by Calum Wilson | Sep 11, 2024 | Editorial Comment, Life Stories
By Mike Cavaliere (Photo: Embry‑Riddle/Bernard Wilchuski) The most harrowing hour of Mike McCormick’s life took place on a sunny September morning in 2001. At the time, McCormick — now a professor of Air Traffic Management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — was...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Aug 18, 2023 | Flight, Life Stories
Hawaiian Airlines has announced a new partnership with Hawaiʻi Foodbank and Maui Food Bank to collect and distribute food to the wildfire victims in Maui. Additionally, the carrier donated $50,000 to each food bank and is deploying volunteers to Hawaiʻi Foodbank to...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Aug 15, 2023 | Life Stories
Boeing has come forward to show its support and aid in the relief efforts in Hawaii after the deadly wildfires that destroyed Maui communities. Boeing will contribute $500,000 from the Boeing Charitable Trust to support the cause. Of this, $250,000 will be for the...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Mar 17, 2023 | Inspiration, Life Stories
Airlines and aviation industry companies are gearing up for International Women’s Day on March 8 with an array of announcements. On March 7, Avia Solutions Group-owned charter business Chapman Freeborn said it had promoted Catriona Taylor to global supplier...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Mar 6, 2023 | Flight, Inspiration, Life Stories
UK-based budget airline easyJet said on March 6 that its customers have given £300,000 to support the United Nations’ Children’s’ Fund (UNICEF) emergency appeal after deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. “Their donations have helped raise...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Feb 15, 2023 | Flight, Inspiration, Life Stories
Pratt & Whitney and Frontier Airlines have named one of the carrier’s Airbus A312neos after one of the US military’s famed Tuskagee Airmen of World War II, “Edward the Bald Eagle” honours the late Edward Hall, a metallurgist and one of the first...
