The Faroe Islands have definitely made it deep into my heart during 2023. While there is the Smyril Line ferry from Denmark and Iceland to the beautiful islands in the Atlantic Ocean, you nowadays rather take the plane and arrive…
Flying the Douglas C-47 Skytrain at Palm Springs Air Museum
I love historic planes and explore the feeling of flying in a historic manner. For example, I am really happy to state that I twice flew the Lufthansa Junkers Ju-52/3m before the German airline unfortunately retired it from actively flying.…
Flying with FLN Frisia-Luftverkehr from Harle (EDXP) to Wangerooge (AGE)
I love small regional air service like the Essential Air Service in the USA or flights to small and rather remote locations in other countries. It finally took me quite a while to set of the review of this experience…
Five Years of Flyctory.com – My 20 Most Popular Travel Posts (so far…)
Damn, it is already four years… And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I started regular posts on Flyctory.com. The first ones might be rather poor – and the initial generation of reviews does…
Flying Norlandair from Akureyri (AEY) (not) to Grimsey (GRY)
I so far did not have too many opportunities to cross the Polar Circle in my life. A few years ago, I made it to the Northernmost airport with scheduled flights, Longyearbyen (LYR) on Svalbard. During my August 2021 trip…
Flying the PAD Aviation Embraer Phenom 300
Fortunate unexpected upgrade: I originally planned to go from Paderborn/Lippstadt (PAD) to Westerland/Sylt (GWT) to check out a new German virtual airline, Green Airlines, and their ATR 72 Turboprop provided by Chalair Aviation. However, my end of April 2021 trip…
Loganair From Glasgow To Barra Airport (BRR)
Barra Airport is a very special place for any aviation enthusiasts: the airport located on the largest island of the Outer Hebrides is the only one worldwide, which has scheduled services on a sandy runway – the airport is only…
Flying Singapore Airlines First Class (B777-300ER)
While I had Lufthansa First Class services from Frankfurt to Hong Kong and from Singapore back to Frankfurt on my trip to Singapore and Malaysia in April/May 2019, I especially looked forward to travel Singapore Airlines First Class from Hong…