Emirates will pay for your medical treatment, hotel quarantine, and even your funeral if you catch COVID-19 while traveling. Emirates has a new strategy for boosting passenger demand in the midst of a global pandemic: coronavirus insurance. If one of its passengers is diagnosed with COVID-19 during their journey, the Dubai-based airline will cover their…
Gear Every Aviator Needs To Have For a Safe Flying Experience Flying can be fun and exciting, but it also entails a lot of risks. A pilot can’t foresee every possible danger—even a very professional must be cautious before they take off. A pilot should conduct a thorough checking before the flight and have a…
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration…
A Trigana Air Boeing 737 ALERT Trigana Air Boeing 737 has been damaged during unstable landing at Wamena Airport, Indonesia. A Trigana Air Boeing 737-300 freighter (reg. PK-YSZ) suffered damage to the outer flap fairing on the left wing. The aircraft operated a domestic flight between Jayapura-Sentani Airport and Wamena Airport, Indonesia. The aircraft appearing…
Jet2 has cancelled all holidays and flights to mainland Spain from tomorrow until August 17 as a result of the UK quarantine rule change over coronavirus. Jet2 has said its flights to Spanish destinations Costa de Almeria, Alicante, Malaga and Murcia, as well as Faro airport on Portugal’s Algarve, have been suspended until mid-August. Mainland…
Best-selling conservative author David J. Harris Jr. held up an entire American Airlines flight on Saturday, claiming he could not wear a face mask due to medical reasons – and then saying American could not ask about his conditions because it violated his HIPAA rights. Harris laid out his concerns in a video shot while…
A female founder of a church goes off on a livestream rant at JetBlue ground staff after she refused to wear a mask on a flight.
According to reports, two passengers refused to wear face masks during the flight and the plane returned to Detroit Metro Airport. A Delta spokesperson told media outlet that the flight was delayed because the passengers “were non-compliant with crew instructions.” The flight did take off again and land in Atlanta after being delayed by the…
A total of 30 flights have landed at a Canadian airport in the last two weeks with at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 onboard but passengers on those planes may not have been directly informed of their exposure risk. The federal government has flagged nine domestic flights and 21 international flights from cities in…
The British government has decided to remove Spain from a list of countries exempt from quarantine measures in response to the rising number of coronavirus cases recorded in Spanish regions such as Catalonia, Aragón and Murcia. According to the British Transportation Ministry, from midnight Saturday, all travelers coming from Spain to the United Kingdom must…
Boeing is preparing to delay its all-new 777X jet by several months or up to a year, three people familiar with the matter said, as the COVID-19 crisis exacerbates a drop in demand for the industry’s largest jetliners. An announcement of the delay could come as early as next week when Boeing announces earnings, one…
A couple of major U.S. airlines have just reversed their policies on their mask mandates. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both decided that they will no longer allow medical exemptions as a reason not to wear a face mask. On Wednesday, American Airlines issued a news release detailing its new face mask policy. Beginning on…