Ryanair is suspending flights from regional airports, including Ireland West Airport, Cork and Shannon, from November 4 to December 13. In a statement, Ryanair said it recently announced its reduced winter schedule which took its capacity down to 40% compared to last year. “As a result of continuous Government mismanagement and a complete collapse in…
A Boeing 747SP was critically damaged in a hangar during hurricane in Lake Charles, LA, USA. In recent images that appeared on social networks, a Boeing B747SPs can be seen badly damaged in a hangar in Lake Charles, LA, USA after hurricane Laura in September. Apparently, the plane has hit the wing of another plane…
Paris has overtaken Heathrow as Europe’s busiest airport, with the London hub reporting falling passenger numbers and rising losses. Paris Charles de Gaulle has overtaken Heathrow as the largest airport in Europe for the first time, with Amsterdam Schiphol and Frankfurt close behind. All three European airports have implemented testing regimes, with Heathrow repeatedly calling…
Today, Emirates is sending an Airbus A380 to be dismantled in Tarbes, France. The 12-year-old Airbus A380 is sent to Tarbes after being repainted in white few months ago. The A380 (reg. A6-EDB) was performing its last commercial flight on 23 February from Muscat to Dubai. Since that, it performed a test flight on May…
A brawl happened on Spirit Airlines flight NK2322 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to Puerto Rico police, around 7pm yesterday, at the Luis Munoz Marin airport in San Juan, passenger Nyasy Veronique Payne “provoked an incident by acting in what witnesses called an agressive, hostile, & defiant behavior.” She hit…
Six Boeings 747 of the German airline Lufthansa have been temporarily parked in Twente Airport in The Netherlands since the summer. The six Boeing 747s are at risk of not being able to leave the airport due to a change from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT). The first two Boeing 747s landed to…
Eight airplanes owned by state-owned regional airline SA Express will be auctioned next month – but most probably will not fly again. SA Express was placed under provisional liquidation in April this year, after its business rescue process failed. A group called FlySax, which includes some of the airline’s former employees, was selected as the…
Heathrow Airport currently has a host of destinations not requiring self-isolation by passengers on their return to the UK. Heathrow has also launched a rapid £80 test and hopes this could eventually allow thousands more people to safely jet off on holiday. Full list of destinations that do not require isolation on return to the…
Denver International Airport has re-started nonstop flights to and from parts of Europe. On Sunday Denver International Airport welcomed its first arrival from Europe since March. The Lufthansa A350 that departed from Munich, Germany, landed on a snowy runway. Denver International Airport reminds passengers that international COVID-19 travel restrictions are still in place and that…
Liberal Minister of Health Patti Hajdu has been a major proponent for masks, but was pictured not wearing one. Liberal Minister of Health Patti Hajdu was pictured not wearing a mask in a mandated area of the Toronto Pearson Airport on Sunday. According to the rules of the Airport, “face masks are mandatory for customers…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible…
IATA is right to claim that ‘Safely delivering COVID-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global air cargo industry’. And Finnair Cargo is perfectly placed to help transport millions of vaccine doses as soon as they’re available, helping to bring as swift an end as possible to the coronavirus crisis. “We…