Qatar Airways is the new titleholder for the world’s longest regularly scheduled airline flight. The airline on Sunday inaugurated service on the 9,032-mile route between its Doha hub and Auckland, New Zealand. Flight time on the route is 16 hours, 10 minutes, on the New Zealand-bound leg. The return, which typically faces more headwinds, is…
21 years ago today, Birgenair Flight 301 (TC-GEN) was a flight chartered by Turkish-management Birgenair partner Alas Nacionales from Gregorio Luperón Int’l Airport in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic to Frankfurt Airport, Germany with stopovers in Gander, Canada and Berlin, Germany. The Boeing 757-225 was carrying 176 passengers & 13 crew members. TC-GEN, the accident aircraft involved…
Serene Air brand flight #ER522 new Boeing 737NG was damaged on the ground by a tow tug this morning at Islamabad Intl. Airport. The plane was about to takeoff to Karachi. The Boeing 737NG was only 1 month old and Serene Air is a newly made airline which just started operations last week.
We were live this morning from London Heathrow for the arrival of brand new Air France Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
