Air New Zealand has announced that they’ll start flying nonstop between Auckland and Newark as of October 2020. The route will operate 3x weekly year-round using a Boeing 787-9. This ultra long haul flight will cover a distance of 8,810 miles in each direction, and will be blocked at 15hr40min eastbound and 17hr40min westbound. This…
British government officials have lifted restrictions on flights to Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt. The decision reverses a ban imposed in 2015 following the bombing of a Russian airliner. The incident, which saw the loss of 224 lives, with linked to the Islamic State group. Egyptian officials have admitted the airport fell well short of international…
Passengers and cabin crew aboard a flight to Phuket witnessed three bizarre incidents in which a drunk passenger tried to open the plane door, two others got into a brawl after drinking and another person started smoking in the toilet. In the first instance, a drunk man created panic among passengers after he attempted to…
An Israeli baby died while returning with her family to Israel from a vacation in Thailand. According to Hebrew media reports Saturday, the one-year-old was on an Aeroflot flight from Thailand to Moscow when she began experiencing health problems. The pilot of the airplane made an emergency stop in the Russian city of Kazan, but…
An Air France jet made an emergency landing Monday at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, and a government source said its passengers included at least one foreign dignitary attending Emperor Naruhito’s enthronement ceremony. No injuries were reported as a result of the landing around 12:20 p.m. of Flight 272, a Boeing 777 plane traveling to Haneda from…
European regulators expect to clear Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX to return to service in January at the earliest, following flight trials by European test pilots scheduled for mid-December, Europe’s top aviation safety official told Reuters. Boeing has said it aims to return the jet to service by end-year following changes to cockpit software and training…
A bag exploded while being loaded onto a flight at Midway International midday Monday, police said. Police were called to the airport just before 12:20 p.m. Monday after a bag exploded while being loaded onto a flight, said police spokeswoman Karie James. The bag exploded while being loaded onto a flight at the airport.…
A Thai Airways Boeing 777-300 suffered an uncontained engine failure during takeoff. A Thai Airways Boeing 777-300 suffered an uncontained failure of its left Engine (GE90) while taking off runway 01L at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport. The Boeing 777-300 (reg. HS-TKL) was performing flight #TG970 to Zürich, returned to the gate after the incident. None of…
An American Airlines flight has been diverted after a leaking cleaning product rendered two cabin crew members unconscious, with several passengers suffering from burning eyes and skin problems. American Airlines flight AA729 from London Heathrow to Philadelphia was forced to turn back towards Ireland and land in Dublin, where a team of paramedics waited to…
An alert was given shortly after 6:30am on Friday, October 18, due to a suspicious package at Brest Airport, France. An abandoned package has been spotted in an airplane performing Brest to Paris flight. The aircraft was about to take off with almost 200 passengers on board. The suspicious package was a circular metal box,…
Air France flight AF-136 was travelling from Paris, France to Chicago in the U.S. when a ’suspicious’ mobile phone was found on the aircraft. The flight was almost two hours into its journey when the pilot advised air traffic controllers that they wished to divert to Shannon Airport for “security reasons.” The flight landed safely…
The first non-stop commercial airline flight from New York to Sydney has landed after 19 hours 16 minutes in the air. A total of 49 passengers and crew were on the flight, which was used to run a series of experiments to assess health and well-being onboard. Data from these experiments will be used help…