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As an addition to yesterday’s news about American Airlines canceling flights due to safety checks to their old MD80 aircrafts, another airline made a similar announcement. United States’ third largest airline, Delta Airlines, announced that it was grounding flights due to safety checks of their MD88 aircraft type. Apparently there are some issues with the [...]

Today American Airlines announced that it was canceling hundreds of flights in continental US due to issues with its older MD80 aircrafts. The fleet of the world’s largest airline consists for about 45% of this aircraft type. According to some articles I’ve read American Airlines is the airline which has the oldest fleet age of [...]

The other day I read an article about the tendencies of the European traveler for this summer season. Due to the recent fall in value of the US dollars, it makes traveling to the United States attractive to Europeans. According to some preliminary reports European travelers are going to take advantage of the fall of [...]

US Government Aircraft On Aruba
Today at the airport I noticed an unusual visitor to Aruba. It is a United States government aircraft, serial number 90003. Generally these aircraft make a technical stop in Aruba, before continuing their journey down south.
Rarely does it stay long on the island. But this aircraft is scheduled to stay in [...]

Cruiseships in town
Last weekend there were many ships in town again. Sunday, for instance, there were 3 and Monday 5. Normally I take a photograph and accompany it with a short post. Not this time. Instead I shot a couple of videos and edit them together to one video. The quality isn’t the best, but [...]

Island Princess leaving Aruba
Past weekend was a busy cruise ship weekend, yet again. Thousands of people strolled through town, looking for some deals, which is not an easy task by the way.
 
The sight of having many cruise ships in town is not unusual. They come to port in many sizes and colors. Sometimes, however, a [...]

Busy cruise ship weekend
According to Aruba’s Cruise Tourism Authority (CTA), current cruise season has a few good months left. I haven’t compared figures between last season and the current one yet. However, according to the pre-season estimations by CTA, the amount of visitors is expected to be lower than last year, as the amount of [...]