Singapore to run Trans-Pacific routes with 100 seat A340s, Al Gore weeps

Singapore Airlines has announced plans to strip almost half of its seats out of their fleet of environmental unfriendly Airbus A340-500s in an attempt to make them entirely business class for their non-stop flights between Singapore and Los Angeles. By doing so they are taking the already reigning champ of long range fuel inefficiency and making them less effective in terms of transporting passengers. An A340-500 flying only 100 passengers 1/2 way across the globe?!?! Some one apparently has some carbon credits to redeem.

One bad weekend for Lufthansa

On top of having one of its A320's lose a winglet in Hamburg this weekend, Lufthansa had another wind related incident in Frankfurt. It appears the wind blew a catering truck on to the wing of an Airbus A340-600 causing some pretty serious damage.

Sorry for the low res.

Editor's Note:

It seems as though the original photos have mysteriously vanished from the host's website. Lesson learned: save the photos prior to vicious Lufthansa laweyers having them deleted from existence.