An All Nippon Airways plane from western Japan bound for Tokyo’s Haneda Airport had to turn back to Fukuoka Airport for an emergency landing. Fukuoka Airport officials say crew on board the Boeing 767 reported engine trouble shortly after 9:50 a.m. Thursday Japan time. The aircraft made an emergency landing at 10:15 a.m. It then…
Heathrow has said its project to build a third runway has been delayed by “at least 12 months” after the aviation regulator rejected its spending plans. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has refused Heathrow’s request to lift spending from £650m to £2.4bn before it even gets planning consent. The CAA is concerned passengers will end…
Cabin overhead luggage panel on LATAM Airbus A350 fell down on passengers just after landing at Frankfurt airport, Germany. The incident took place after the flight from Sau Paulo landed at Frankfurt on 13 December 2019. No injuries were reported.
Southwest Airlines said on Tuesday it was cancelling nearly double the number of flights through April than it has done since the Boeing 737 MAX grounding last March amid uncertainty over when the aircraft will fly again. The low-cost carrier said on Tuesday it was removing roughly 300 weekday flights from its total peak-day schedule…
The Air France–KLM Group has firmed up an order for 60 Airbus A220-300 aircraft to modernise its single-aisle fleet. The aircraft are intended to be operated by Air France. Air France-KLM currently operates a fleet of 159 Airbus aircraft.
An Irish company that buys and leases airplanes sued Boeing Co. in the U.S. to void contracts for almost two dozen 737 Max aircraft and to demand at least US$185 million in damages, citing design flaws that led to two deadly crashes. Timaero Ireland Ltd., based in Dublin, sued Boeing on Tuesday in federal court…
A passenger on a recent S7 Airlines flight allegedly became aggressive in the middle of the trip and demanded to “have a word” with the pilot. When the man attempted to storm the cockpit, his fellow passengers took matters into their own hands. The incident occurred on a flight from Mineralnye Vody to Novosibirsk in…
Anyone traveling with Norwegian can now offset their personal CO2-footprint with a seamlessly integrated technology solution from climate tech company CHOOOSE. The solution is also the first-ever from an airline to be approved by the United Nations initiative ‘Climate Neutral Now’. CHOOOSE and Norwegian have introduced a new solution to address the pain points of traditional carbon offsetting programs.…
Boeing will suspend production of its 737 MAX jetliner escalating the crisis confronting the aerospace giant and raising the prospect of job cuts and furloughs across the global aerospace industry. The company is expected to halt production in January, according to one of the people. Boeing has continued to assemble around 40 planes a month…
A United Airlines flight #UA366 from San Diego was forced to make an emergency landing in Albuquerque after flames were seen shooting from one of the plane’s engines. The Chicago-bound flight landed safely in New Mexico early Monday and United arranged for a different plane to get customers to their destination, the company said in…
Boeing is considering whether to cut or halt production of its grounded 737 Max after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said last week it would not approve the plane’s return to service before 2020. The US planemaker’s board is holding a regular two-day meeting in Chicago, which started on Sunday, and the company could make…
