The European Union is considering shunning Belarus’s airspace and banning national carrier Belavia from its airports after Belarusian authorities scrambled a warplane and forced a Ryanair jetliner to land in Minsk to arrest a dissident. EU leaders strongly condemned Belarus over Sunday’s incident, in which a flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted and Roman…
Authorities in Minsk have searched a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt including passengers. The Airbus A319 (reg. D-AIBD) landed punctually at 1:23 pm from Frankfurt in Minsk, but the handling for the return flight did not go normally. Belarusian authorities searched the plane and passengers of Lufthansa flight LH1487 from Minsk to Frankfurt before it has…
UK aircraft have been ordered to stay away from Belarusian airspace, following Sunday’s forced diversion of a Ryanair plane. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said he has instructed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to request airlines avoid Belarusian airspace “in order to keep passengers safe”.
Air India’s customer database — name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information and frequent flyer data – has suffered a massive security breach. The airline has informed affected passengers that the “breach involved some personal data registered between August 2011 and February 2021.” It adds that “no passwords data was affected.” This…
Aerion Supersonic, the Nevada-based company that planned to build business jets capable of silently flying nearly twice as fast as commercial aircraft, is shutting down. “In the current financial environment, it has proven hugely challenging to close on the scheduled and necessary large new capital requirements” to begin production of its AS2 supersonic jet, the…
Camair co plane overruns runway as heavy rains hit Yaounde. An Embraer 135 leased from Equato-Guinean Cronos Airlines Company by Cameroon’s Airlines Corporation, Camair Co has just overran the runway at the Yaounde Nsimalen Airport. According to sources on the spot, the plane that had on board 31 passengers lost control following heavy rains that…
Ryanair Boeing 737 FR4978 Athens-Vilnius landed after bomb threat at the Minsk National Airport. Roman Protasevich, an exiled Belarusian activist, was on the board. He is reported to be detained Belarusian opposition Telegram channel Nexta has said its former editor and exiled opposition activist Roman Protasevich has been detained at Minsk airport after his Lithuania-bound…
Spanish tourism officials have confirmed visitors from the United Kingdom will be able to travel to the country for a holiday from Monday. Travellers from the UK will not need to present a negative Covid-19 test, as long as they have remained in the country for the past 14 days. However, it is still mandatory…
A computer outage which caused delays at airports across the U.S. late Thursday night and early Friday morning, including at Los Angeles International Airport, appears to have been resolved. Travelers posted photos to social media of long lines at multiple airports. Logan Airport was hit especially hard. According to CBS News reporter Kris Van Cleave,…
JetBlue Airways said Wednesday it will start transatlantic service late this summer, competing against bigger rivals on the lucrative route between New York and London. The New York-based airline said it will start daily flights between JFK and Heathrow airports on Aug. 11, and add daily trips from JFK to London’s second-biggest airport, Gatwick, on…
Two French Legends of the Sky. The BUGATTI Chiron Sport ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’ and the Dassault Rafale Marine come together to celebrate French pioneering and passion for over a century. It were the French who were the driving forces in motor sports racing as well as flying at the beginning of the 20th century.…
