An airline passenger has expressed her disgust after claiming she could see the breasts and underwear of a flight attendant. Dr June Robertson, from New Zeland, frequently flies to Malaysia. But she was so shocked by the revealing uniforms worn by stewards of AirAsia that she wrote a furious letter of complaint to a…
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner got the federal approval it needs to fly commercially. The certification concludes a flight-test program that began last March for the first of the 787-10 carbon-fiber jets to be assembled solely at Boeing’s South Carolina factory, the Chicago-based planemaker said Monday. That clears one of two new Boeing airplanes that were on…
The delivery of Qatar Airways’ first Airbus A350-1000 has been delayed until February due to the “complex seat configuration” of the airline’s business class, its chief executive said on Monday. The major Middle East carrier is the launch customer of Europe’s largest twin-engined passenger jet and was scheduled to receive its first of 37 on…
A mass brawl involving around 180 people broken out at Hannover Airport on Monday, police says. German Newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) reports the fight broke out at the Turkish Airlines check-in area in Terminal B at 16:10 local time. A protest over Turkish military action in Syria was taking place in the city, and…
KLM Boeing 747-400 (reg. PH-BFI) to Mexico City suffered a possible birdstrike on departure from Amsterdam and declaring issue with engine #4. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 15:50 KLM #KL685 Safely landed runway 27 at Amsterdam. Passengers will change to a spare aircraft. UPDATE 15:35 KLM #KL685 doesn’t require any additional assistance on arrival, fuel dumping…
Boeing designed the compact bathrooms that way to squeeze in about a dozen more seats in the cabin than in older versions of the 737 jets. But in a private meeting a week ago with American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker, a group of flight attendants complained about the design of the lavatories on the…
A homeless woman sneaked on to a British Airways jet and flew from America to London without a ticket or passport, police said last night. Marilyn Hartman – described as a “serial stowaway” – got through security at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and boarded a flight to London Heathrow. Staff realised she had no ticket…