Country Life In The City

Etihad’s first female Captain, Sophie Blanchard, takes to the skies today for her first commercial flight in the left hand seat. She will be taking the controls for the Abu Dhabi flight to London Heathrow. Captain Blanchard is a French national who joined Etihad Airways as a First Officer in 2007 and completed the necessary [...]

The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has just passed and The Black Snob has raised some interesting issues. 1,800 people lost their lives when Katrina swept through, mostly in Louisiana and 80% of New Orleans was flooded. Fast forward a few years and over 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico [...]