On Friday, June 26, Air France will perform a special Airbus A380 flight over France, with employees on-board, to mark the retirement of its 9 superjumbos, effective immediately. Take-off will be from Paris CDG at around noon, Ben Smith (AF-KLM CEO) and Anne Rigail (AF CEO) will also be on-board. More details to be announced…
A FedEx Boeing 767 veered off a straight section of taxiway and onto the grass at Vancouver International Airport Thursday morning. FedEx Boeing 767-300F went off taxiway “Lima” after landing at Vancouver AIrport (CYVR), Canada. It came to a stop with its nosegear on the grass, normally a low-risk procedure, when the incident happened. “FedEx…
The control tower of La Rochelle airport received recieved an emergency landing call Thursday noon. The pilot of an Alphajet of the Air Force was in difficulty after the cockpit cracked due to a collision with a bird. “The collision occurred at low altitude, between 500 and 1,000 feet (1,500 and 3,000 meters)” indicates the…
Iran will send the black boxes from a downed Ukrainian airliner to Ukraine, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Eslami, said on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down on Jan. 8 by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people in what Tehran termed a…
As Emirates retired its first A380 from its fleet, the airline will likely remove two other A380s. “You’ll start seeing A380s coming out of our fleet for various reasons, and we’ve always said this,” said Emirates Airline President Tim Clark last year. “We are in the process of [starting A380 retirements],” he said at the…
SAS will reactivate 10 more aircraft next month to operate 40 planes. SAS will increase services from all of its three Scandinavian capital hubs. Several destinations will be added from Copenhagen, including transatlantic services to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. International flights will resume from Oslo, for destinations in Spain and Croatia, as well…
The parts of the last Airbus A380 superjumbo are on way for the outskirts of Toulouse where the final assembly will take place. The gigantic fuselage sections of MSN 272 have traveled by land, sea, and river, in order to cross the 500 kilometers that separate the factory of Montoir-de-Bretagne, in Loire Atlantique, to the…
Norwegian Air will restart flights to and from UK airports from July 1 “as a result of increased customer demand”. The airline will resume flights on 76 routes halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back into service 12 of its mothballed aircraft on top of the eight already flying, as European countries reopen and…
Air France plans to offer about 8,300 staff incentives to leave the airline, in a bid to cut costs without stirring a political backlash after receiving a massive state bailout, people familiar with the proposal said. The Air France-KLM unit will seek the voluntary exit of around 300 pilots, 2,000 cabin crew and 6,000 ground…
A snake was found near the tyres of a private airline jet at Islamabad International Airport. The crew of a private airline became frightened when they saw a snake near the plane at the Islamabad International Airport. Civil aviation personnel removed the snake from the runway with the help of sticks. The plane bound for…
As air traffic is slowly resuming, the CEO of Eurocontrol gave more details. Eamonn Brennan said there were 7,810 flights in the network yesterday. it was 1,110 flights more than one week ago. Paris CDG was the busiest airport with 355 flights, followed by Frankfurt airport with 306 flights.
