Thirty (?!?!) years after "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate," airlines have an option to bring Friends to their IFE systems. @Spafax launched a 30 Years of Friends channel with 108 episodes available in a bundle. #PaxEx #IFEC

Will more 787s be flying with the Norse livery or not? Hard to tell given the carrier's mixed messages about operation plans. paxex.aero/norse-atlantic… #AvGeek

The fact that FTE continues to pitch its event hosted at the Long Beach Convention Center as being in "Los Angeles" annoys me almost as much as JetBlue issuing a press release citing times for events today in EST instead of EDT. I should probably take a break...

Congrats to @Intelsat for being the featured partner in this WSJ video about inflight internet, running with the title, "How Starlink and Others are Going to Supercharge Airplane Wi-Fi." 🙈 It is a pretty good take on IFC's evolution, FWIW. youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3OwF… #PaxEx

Got an invite for the Harris rally in NH this afternoon, but I have a work conflict so I can't attend. Still, I figured I'd hop over to Pease and watch AF2 land. Local LEO, under order from USSS, made it clear that wasn't going to happen. So I'm spotting on my ADS-B receiver. 🤷

Internet Archive essentially stealing books to loan them out is bad for authors. So is publishers feeding content to AI companies without consent. Pretending the two are somehow linked is a bad take.

Looking forward to this from Lauren Windsor whose undercover work has started, and changed many conversations. Take a look!

#VV24 liftoff 📸 from Centre spatial guyanais tonight! 🚀 With #Sentinel2C Copernicus EU satellite on board the final Vega rocket. On its way towards the Sun-Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of 775km. #DestinationSpace #Arianespace

-Frontier Internet is being sold to Verizon just a year after relocating its corporate HQ to Dallas dallasnews.com/business/local…

Some good news from $JBLU this morning, as the company guides to lower fuel costs and higher revenue than previously expected for Q3. But interest expense is up, to the tune of $50 million extra annually, as it refinances its balance sheet in search of a stable future. #AvGeek

Gift link to the Bloomberg story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

American Airlines announced its Summer 2025 expansion, including five new routes (CLT-ATH,ORD-MAD,MIA-FCO,PHL-EDI/MXP). Also extending seasonal service on DFW-BCN, MIA-CDG, PHL-ATH/NAP to a longer summer season. #AvGeek $AAL

Does a country need an airline? And how should it measure ROI on funding that operation compared to other infrastructure? Some interesting thoughts here from airBaltic's CEO. #AvGeek

Big news from Allegiant: EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Scott DeAngelo resigned. His last day is 30 September. De Angelo oversaw the marketing and advertising strategy (including loyalty) for the airline since 2018. #AvGeek #PaxEx $ALGT

CRJ operators in the USA will be required to install a $53k RF bandpass filter on the coaxial line between the radio altimeter and the receive antenna in the aft equipment compartment to prevent 5G C-Band interference under a newly proposed AD. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-20244.pdf #AvGeek

I don't remember the company name, but I definitely remember a similar company 20ish years ago making all the same arguments around ease of rebate redemption and value for all parties. And a bunch of people left holding the bag when it collapsed. Plus ça change...

Hey United Airlines, it appears you all aren't selling Air Canada flights due to the strike but just so you're aware, Jazz flights aren't affected.