Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly tested positive for Covid-19 after a Senate hearing with other airline chiefs earlier this week, the airline said Friday. Kelly, along with the CEOs of United Airlines and American Airlines, Delta Air Lines’ chief of operations, and the president of the country’s largest flight attendant union, testified in person for…
Police reportedly responded to a ‘bomb threat’ at Gatwick Airport today, leaving passengers stuck on the runway surrounded by armed police. One passenger said police spent five hours screening people and their luggage, however they did not find anything suspicious. BREAKING: Gatwick Airport says an apparent bomb threat was made this morning to a Turkish…
A Florida man was reportedly banned from flying United Airlines after wearing a red thong as a face covering while boarding a flight in protest of the federal mask mandate. United Airlines officials kicked Florida passenger Adam Jenne off a flight this week before it took off from Fort Lauderdale because he was wearing a…
Heathrow has been given permission to increase charges by more than 50% from January 1. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the cap on the west London airport’s price per passenger next year will be £30.19. The current charge is £19.60. Charges are paid by airlines but are generally passed on to passengers in air…
A Royal Air Force Typhoon has shot down a small hostile drone in Syria which posed a threat to Coalition forces in the area. This unprecedented event was the first operational air-to-air engagement conducted by an RAF Typhoon, and also the first RAF air-to-air missile firing during Operation SHADER – the UK’s contribution to the…
Airbus is delivering the final A380 superjumbo to Dubai’s Emirates today according to Reuters. This delivery is marking the end of a 14-year run that gave Europe an instantly recognised symbol across the globe but failed to fulfil the commercial vision of its designers. Today’s delivery is expected to be low key, partly because of…
An Aeroflot airplane, which was supposed to leave Sheremetyevo for the Mexican resort of Cancun, collided a truck for de-icing during taxiing. “At Sheremetyevo, a passenger Airbus A350-900 collided with a truck. The driver was injured, there were no casualties on the plane” a sourced said to TASS agency. The ground collision occurred on the…
Nine people were killed on Wednesday after a private aircraft crashed while making an emergency landing at Las Americas Airport in the Dominican Republic’s capital Santo Domingo, according to the plane’s operator, Helidosa Aviation Group. Seven passengers and two crew members died in the incident, it said in a statement posted to Twitter. Six were…
France will “drastically” restrict travel from the UK due to a surge in the omicron COVID-19 variant, according to a government spokesperson. France is to tighten up restrictions on travel to and from Britain to slow the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 which is causing record numbers of cases on the other side…
An employee of IndiGo airlines, who works as a baggage loader, fell asleep in the cargo compartment of the airline’s Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flight. An employee of IndiGo airlines, who works as a baggage loader, fell asleep in the cargo compartment of the airline’s Mumbai-Abu Dhabi flight, but was found safe on arrival in the capital…
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Airbus for seven A350F freighter aircraft. The agreement will see the A350F begin replacing the airline’s existing B747-400F fleet in the fourth quarter of 2025. “We are honoured by Singapore Airlines’ vote of confidence in the A350F as it renews its freighter fleet. The…
