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On a routine long-haul flight from Montreal (YUL) to Lima (LIM), the Air Transat crew faced an unusual operational challenge. Severe weather conditions in Peru meant the closest suitable alternate airport to Lima was more than three hours away. As a result, the crew made a technical fuel stop in Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ) to ensure they carried enough fuel to divert safely if necessary.

From the early fascination with the buttons and lights in the cockpit of a Boeing 727 to flying the skies on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Andre's story in aviation is nothing short of a dream come true.

There’s something iconic about a Boeing 747 lifting off under the glow of airport floodlights — but when that “Queen of the Skies” rockets out of Hong Kong weighing exactly 747,000 lbs, it’s aviation poetry in motion.

Our partners at Just Planes are delighted to return to Aircalin for the third time, featuring the airline’s beautiful Airbus A330-900neo on a brand-new route recently inaugurated to Paris. Over the past few months, this route has also become the World's longest one-stop flight, covering more than 9,500 nautical miles!

There are few approaches in the United States — or anywhere in the world — that test a pilot’s skills like the Canarsie Approach into Runway 13L at New York JFK.