Professional Pilots Rumour Network

The Professional Pilots Rumour Network, or PPRuNe, is an Internet forum catering to airline pilots and others in the aviation industry. The site was originally presented by Danny Fyne (later assisted by Robin Lloyd) as an email list in 1993.

It progressed to a bulletin board and then to web-based Internet forum, and acts as a "rumour exchange" for airline pilots. PPRuNe is known in European and Anglophone pilot circles and is cited by media in reports relating to aviation. Since the site has more than 250,000 registered members, many of them pilots, the site is sometimes at the center of debates about aviation issues in the news. Commercial pilots often share insights and perspectives about aviation mishaps, sometimes eyewitness accounts.

The site was acquired in August 2008 by Internet Brands. On March 22, 2012, a discussion was posted and stickied explaining any and all new discussions about Etihad Airways, its employees and practices, would be deleted; the discussion was closed right after, denying rights to understand why.PPRuNe, otherwise known as the Professional Pilots RUmour NEtwork started 12 years ago as a sideline hobby for founder and airline pilot Danny Fyne.

What started as a group of dedicated UK and European pilots who would post a few hundred messages a month, has grown into the premier global forum where professional pilots and those in the airline industry communicate through over 2000 posts per day. Based on our statistics, most of PPRuNe's visitors are directly involved in the Airline industry with the remainder either business professionals or higher education students working to become professionals in the airline industry. Most of PPRuNe's active community is educated, well informed, well paid for their services, enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and of course, have a strong interest in the professional aviation community.