Feed cleanser - the oldest airplane photo on my phone... ...is a scale model of the A380, made of chocolate, from (I think) the Berlin chocolate museum, snapped in 2012.

Happy reset-all-the-status-points-to-zero day!

@middleseatview.bsky.social do these things actually help you folks or is using the online feedback form better?

@theupfront.media coming in hot with some truly dad-joke level puns by @thatjohn.bsky.social and I'm loving it.

#United rolling out AI chatbots is going exactly as poorly as one would expect. #paxex The bot asks me to make a selection and is then immediately confused by its own options. When asked to give me a human instead, it insists that it's able to assist with any issues, which it clearly is not.

8456 miles to LA - let's go!

Today we're flying LHR-DXB on A6-EVS. Echo Victor Sierra, an A380 with the MSN 272 is the last one ever built, which is sad and also exciting.

Big bird as viewed from another big bird.

Calories consumed above 35000 feet don't count, right?

Good morning and welcome to my attempt to fly from London to Dubai. You join me at Heathrow Terminal 3 where chaos reign. Due to a cyberattack 6 days ago, all the counters are still down, so checking in is a bit of a process.

#United IFE 1) recognizing users with a MileagePlus account and allowing sign-in directly on the screen, and 2) showing surrounding traffic and providing type and flight numbers is #paxex and #avgeek heaven.

Yes to #1, only sorta to #2? There's an involuntary component to this where I'm unfamiliar high stress situations, we revert to known routines and patterns. Plane on ground = get up and grab bags is a familiar routine that people fall back into.

When the FAs like you, you get proper glassware even in the back.

Victoria, you pretty! And also, those are very interesting drinks.

@flysfo.bsky.social love you guys but someone should have a word with whoever does the UI for your parking webpage please. This... is not how radio buttons work.

It's Tuesday, so here are a couple of slightly unusual (read:ground-level) angles of an #Emirates #A380, which serve to illustrate the absolutely ridiculous size of those wings.

Giving this while #starlux situation a try today. First impressions are good: Spacious seat, brand-new A359, and a friendly crew. Flight 1 of 2 is a short hop from Hong Kong to Taipei.

Hello Hong Kong! It's not exactly a checkerboard approach, but you still get some nice views on approach.

The Queen taxiing to the departure runway at SFO.

#Dubai by day, dusk, and night. It's rather dusty these days, but that does make for gorgeous sunsets.

"Bear after a teleportation accident" ? "Lamp shade lodged in brain of bair-like creature"? Anyways, welcome to Doha, where art gives you nightmares.

Trying out this whole international #jetblue situation. Going transatlantic on a narrowbody feels weird, but the seat and menu look very promising. #paxex

@martysg.com petition to rename "Fly-Fi" to "Pretty fly for a Wi-Fi"? It's my first time flying Mint since 2018 and I'm happy to report that it's still all kinds of excellent <3

Oh hey #united that's new and also useful looking.

Fully aware that I put the "amateur" in "amateur videographer" in every sense of the word, here's a short clip of the #blueangels doing cool stuff at #capitalairshow. Bonus points if you can ID the wing of the plane that's visible in the beginning and at the end. #avgeek #planespotting #f18

So here's a USMC #F35 hovering at the Capital #airshow in Sacramento. #avgeek #planespotting

Cleared for takeoff 28L. Time to hit the skies.

Time to hit the skies. #United has cleverly assigned this flight to Beijing the number 888.

I’m tempted to say a few things about last night’s tragedy. But I won’t. And you shouldn’t, either. Let the NTSB do its job.

Three queens: A #Lufthansa Boeing #747-8i touches down at FRA, past a waiting 747-400, taken from our 748 as it taxis to the runway for takeoff.

It's a gorgeous day to fly.

Singapore, you pretty.

Turkish B777 on final to 24R at LAX. Landing gear drops about halfway through the video. I heart parallel approaches. #avgeek

UPS requiring a signature for a box of toilet paper ordered from Amazon is not something I expected in 2024.

Eurowings, following its cousin Austrian, is leaving Twitter

I love that @flightradar24.com has the 3-D model for Santa for maximum immersion. Not sure how the FAA feels about 1995kts over land though...

The Queen.

The Grand Hyatt at SFO is just fantastic for #planespotting.

Not an airline we see every day.

The #Heathrow #United club is still one of the best in the system.

Peter liked my Pan Am shirt. Peter is cool.

Oh #Heathrow, never change. At LAX, before takeoff: "We're showing a 40 minute early arrival, but London has a rule where we can't be more than 20 minutes early so we'll sit around and wait." 10h later, approaching LHR: "Due to traffic we have to hold and will arrive late."

And here we go. Thanks to tailwinds, this'll take less than 10 hours, and it looks fairly smooth

Headed to LHR from SFO via LAX on #united tonight: a 🧵. First off, holy moly SFO is dead at 2pm. This is amazing. I've never seen the #polaris lounge here this empty before.

Calibrating the turkey thermometer to ensure accurate readings #engineeringThanksgiving

If you see this, post something green... with strake vortices?

United Airlines Flight 1 is a beast, leaving SFO at 10pm and arriving in Singapore two days later, having spent 15.5 of the 16 hour flight time in the dark. It still boggles my #avgeek mind how far #ETOPS has come that we can do this on a twin-engined 787-9.

I'm going to call this series "random flower based airport art" #paxex