A Boeing 737-800 was spotted landing with missing part. A Swift Air Boeing 737-800 was spotted landing with missing part of its vertical stabilizer missing at San Diego International Airport. The plane was spotted by Doug Kempf on May 19th who psted his photo on Twitter. N820TJ Boeing 737-8Q8 operating as Swift Air/iAero Airways SWQ3518…
Brussels Airlines pilots union offer a “significant” reduction, up to 45%. Brussels Airlines pilots union offer the management of the airline a “significant” reduction, up to 45%, of their working time and their salary, until 2023, which would allow savings of up to 100 million euros by 2023. “By doing so, the proposed savings are…
Brand new British Airways Boeing 787-10 is due in Sunday morning at London Heathrow. The first Boeing 787-10 for British Airways (reg. G-ZBLA) will arrive from Charleston. UPDATE The delivery is now delayed to Sunday 31 May. You can watch London Heathrow live at cam.airlive.net/lhr British Airways has so far revealed a few of their…
EasyJet says it plans to resume a small number of flights next month with strict safety protocols for passengers and crew alike. The airline said passengers wil have to wear a face masks. The company said it would likely operate domestic flights within the UK and France from 15 June with the only international service…
All Italian airports will be allowed to reopen from June 3, transport official said.
In the context of the current COVID-19 crisis and its impact on anticipated activity levels, the Air France-KLM Group announces today the definitive end of Air France Airbus A380 operations. Initially scheduled by the end of 2022, the phase-out of Airbus A380 fleet fits in the Air France-KLM Group fleet simplification strategy of making the…
Emirates is seeking to cancel five of its last eight A380 deliveries. Emirates is seeking to cancel five of its last eight A380 deliveries, with manufacturer Airbus but the planes are already in assembly, according to people familiar with the situation. Dubai-based Emirates plans to take three more of the double-deckers before the end of…
Late Friday night, May 15, the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at Launch Complex 39A after making the trek from its processing facility at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. On the Demo-2 flight test, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft…
India will slowly resume domestic flight operations. Indian aviation minister just announced that domestic civil aviation operations will resume in a calibrated manner from Monday 25th May 2020. All airports & air carriers are being informed to be ready for operations from 25th May. “We have been ready to resume domestic civil aviation for the…
In a letter to staff seen by Reuters, the German airline’s executive board said that 300 aircraft would remain grounded in 2021 and that 200 aircraft would be grounded in 2022. “In the summer of 2023, when we will hopefully will have put this crisis behind us, we will still likely have a fleet that…
Etihad Airways is continuing to increase the number of special flights it is operating worldwide to and from Abu Dhabi. Throughout May and June, the airline will increase frequencies on previously announced special flights and will add new services to Belgrade, Dublin, Geneva, Milan, Paris Charles de Gaulle, and Toronto. In addition to the recently…
The industrial group Rolls-Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs, almost a fifth of its workforce, as the coronavirus crisis takes its toll on the aviation industry. The firm, which makes engines for planes, said the reduction of nearly a fifth of its workforce would mainly affect its civil aerospace division. The bulk of the job…