Lufthansa will cut the number of short- and medium-haul flights in response to the accelerated spread of the coronavirus. “Within the coming weeks, the number of short- and medium-haul flights will be reduced by up to 25%, depending on the further development of the spread of the coronavirus,” the airline said. The Lufthansa Group airlines,…
Easyjet has published an update to investors surrounding coronavirus and its impact on the business. The low-cost carrier said that it had seen “a significant softening of demand and load factors into and out of our Northern Italian bases”, as well “slower demand across our other European markets”. The airline said that as a result…
Two men were met by police when easyJet flight #U26980 touched down in Edinburgh Airport after travelling from Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday afternoon Two men were arrested when an easyJet flight from Copenhagen to Edinburgh touched down today amid claims of a “violent confrontation”. Fellow travellers said areas of the cabin were ‘covered in blood’ and that cabin crew had…
The Australian Tranport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released it’s preliminary report into the C-130 Large Tanker accident that fatally injured 3 aircrew from the US during aerial firefighting operations in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). A preliminary report is released about 1 month after the start of an investigation and contains only…
A Bombardier DHC 8-300 was forced to make emergency landing in Lokichar, Turkana County after it developed mechanical problems. The plane with registration number 5Y-CGH was headed to Nairobi when the incident occurred at Kapese Airstrip on Friday morning. “At 9:54am, Fly540’s DASH8 300 had a suspected foreign object strike which led to an engine…
A Rossiya Boeing 777 to Bangkok just made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport supposedly due to a cracked windshield. A Boeing 777-300ER flight #SU6275 from Moscow SVO to Bangkok performed an emergency landing at Moscow VKO Airport due to a technical issue, a Russia airline representative said in a statement. A reserve airplane…