United Airlines plans to start charging passengers to reserve select seats near the front of the plane, a practice already in place at rivals American and Delta. United said it will implement the change later this year but did not provide specifics beyond that, including pricing. The seats for sale will be just behind its Economy…
Two RAF Typhoons based in Romania have been scrambled in response to two Russian aircraft flying over the Romanian Black Sea. It follows an incident last week where RAF Typhoons responded to six Russian bombers flying close to NATO airspace. Four RAF Typhoons are deployed at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in southeast Romania as…
Europe’s largest discount airline says “a tiny number” of checks were issued without a signature because of an administrative error. Ryanair says new checks have been sent to customers along with a letter of explanation. Ryanair says the problem involved 190 compensation checks out of some 20,000 issued in July. The company says “we apologize…
A fuel tank collided with one of its Boeing 737 planes on the ground at O’Hare Airport Tuesday, according to United Airlines. The airline says the plane was empty after arriving from Saint Louis. No one on the ground was injured.
Red Wings Tupolev Tu-204 experienced a failure of the left engine very soon after take-off from Ufa Intl Airport to Sochi. A plane, owned by Russia’s Red Wings air carrier, had to perform an emergency landing in the airport of Russia’s Volga area city of Ufa after one of its engines caught fire, an airport…