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🟦💙base family good afternoon 💙🟦 🟦💙BASE FAMILY 💙🟦 For PSA flight attendants, the tentative agreement is thus meaningful because it offers improved headline compensation. This immediate 10% raise delivers needed quick relief, while boarding pay addresses a long-running gripe for regional aviation crews. While crews have always been

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🟦💙 happy Wednesday 💙🟦 BASE FAMILY 🟦💙💙💙🟦 Shutterstock American Airlines' regional strategy is fundamentally about hub stitching, using American Eagle to pull small and mid-sized catchment areas into its big banks at CLT, DFW, PHL, ORD, and MIA. These are all places where the real revenue is made on the onward itinerary. Ultra-short segments are valuable when they replace long drives and protect overall market share in contested short-haul corridors.

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🟦💙base family happy Monday 💙🟦 BASE FAMILY 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Menu Simple Flying logo 11 The Problem Lockheed Ran Into After Designing The L-1011 TriStar cathay pacific lockheed l-1011 runway Credit: Wikimedia Commons Follow Like 11 Link copied to clipboard Add us on 4 By Prachi Patel Feb 21, 2026, 5:31 PM EST Today’s commercial aircraft market is defined by a handful of manufacturers. Boeing and Airbus dominate the narrowbody and widebody sectors, while regional players such as Embraer and ATR supply the smaller end of the market. The landscape, however, was once far more diverse. In earlier decades, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed stood alongside Boeing as major players in shaping the jet age, producing some of the aircraft that would define commercial aviation’s early years. ✕ Remove Ads Over time, McDonnell Douglas eventually merged into Boeing, while Lockheed withdrew from the passenger aircraft sector entirely. For the latter, thi

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🟦💙good afternoon 💙🟦 BASE FAMILY 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 The bulk of Boeing's fleet of 787 test aircraft were retired or sold in 2011-12, once certification was complete and the first 787-8 had entered commercial service with All Nippon Airways. But not N7874. It had become a machine too valuable to retire quickly, too specialized to hand off easily, and too instrumented to be converted into just another passenger jet. So it was that in 2014, N7874 was selected to join the Boeing

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