From July onwards, Austrian Airlines will take off to regular long-haul flights for the first time since mid-March. Bangkok, Chicago, New York and Washington will then be available with up to three weekly flights. The first long-haul aircraft will take off for New York at 10:15 a.m. on 1 July. In Europe, the airline add…
Following the UAE Federal Government’s announcement to lift restrictions on transit passengers services, from 15th June Emirates will offer passenger services to 16 more cities on its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. With travel restrictions remaining in place in most countries, customers are reminded to check entry and exit requirements before their journeys. Flights to the following…
Virgin Atlantic said on Thursday it would restart some flights that have been grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic on July 20 and aimed to restore further services in August. The airline said that services to Orlando and Hong Kong from London Heathrow would resume on July 20, with flights to New York JFK, Los Angeles,…
The Trump administration is banning Chinese passenger airlines from flying scheduled service to the U.S. starting later this month A move aimed at ramping up pressure on China, which hasn’t allowed U.S. carriers to resume flights there, and threatens to further isolate the world’s two largest aviation markets from one another. The order, published Wednesday,…
London City Airport has announced plans to restart commercial operations from the end of June. Domestic services are expected to begin first, with international flights following in early July, though these will depend on the proposed quarantine of passengers arriving into the UK. Staff have been working since the March 25 operations suspension to get…
Mumbai Airport temporarily halted flight operations on Wednesday after a cargo aircraft was involved in a runway excursion or over shooting after landing. A FedEx MD-11F (reg. N583FE) overshot the runway 14 on landing in rain at Mumbai Airport, India. A senior Mumbai Air Traffic Control (ATC) official said that there was a “minor excursion”…
The Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder of crashed PIA #PK8303 A320 (reg. AP-BLD) arrived in BEA’s headquarter in Paris Le Bourget. A coordination meeting was held this morning with Airbus & CFM engines experts. Then technical work started in the BEA lab in the presence of president of AAIB. Today, the French Civil…
It’s a possibility that a bird strike brought down the Canadian Snowbird that killed one pilot and seriously injured another. On 17 May 2020 the Snowbirds air demonstration team was scheduled to depart Kamloops, BC to reposition to Comox, BC as part of Operation INSPIRATION, an operation undertaken by 431 (AD) Sqn to travel around…
A 41-year-old Air France pilot died in the crash of its aerobatic plane. The departmental fire and rescue service of Aude was alerted of the crash of an aerobatic plane which occurred on the runway of Carcassonne airport, France. According to reports, the Pitts S2 had risen in the air just seconds, before diving vertically…
Naheeda Khaskheli, one of the three domestic workers injured in the Karachi plane crash, died of her burn injuries at the Civil Hospital in Karachi. On May 22, 12-year-old Naheeda Khaskheli made her way to Model Colony, where she was working as a domestic helper. That day, as Naheeda waited in the street with her…
Christopher Nolan said that he and his crew blew up a real Boeing 747 for “Tenet” because it was “more efficient” than practical effects using miniatures or CGI. In an interview with Total Film magazine, director Nolan said: “I planned to do it using miniatures and set-piece builds and a combination of visual effects and…
A German engineer on the first flight carrying European workers back to China has tested positive for coronavirus as an asymptomatic carrier, local authorities said Sunday. The man was on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to the northeastern city of Tianjin which landed with around 200 passengers, mainly German workers and their families. Tianjin authorities…