More airlines could have collapsed or consolidated globally without government intervention amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the aviation industry will see a decline in passenger traffic as well as the number of aircraft used by carriers once the crisis subsides, Emirates president Tim Clark said. “We know the A380 is over” Emirates president Sir Tim…
A man was struck and killed by a Southwest airplane Thursday night on a runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, according to the airport. The flight was arriving from Dallas. According to preliminary information released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the pilot of Southwest Airlines Flight 1392 reported seeing a person on Runway 17-Right,…
A patch of dry desert dirt near Alice Springs has become an eerie backdrop for lines of “mothballed” aircraft. Singapore Airlines has sent seven planes — four superjumbo Airbus A380s and three Boeing 777s –to the Northern Territory’s Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage facility, to join passenger jets from budget subsidiary Scoot. Outback Photographics photographer Steve…
First agreement for technical and engineering support on an Airbus A380. Lufthansa Technik’s new technical and engineering services for temporary operational changes from passenger to cargo aircraft have met with great interest in the aviation market. So far, the cabin modification experts of the company have received enquiries from more than 40 airlines. More than…
Two weeks of coronavirus shutdown were enough to hit Air France-KLM with an 815 million-euro first-quarter operating loss, the airline group said on Thursday – predicting demand could take “several years” to recover. The Franco-Dutch airline recorded a €815m operating loss in a first quarter that was only hit by two weeks of the lockdowns…
A Nigerian woman aboard an Emirates Airline flight, evacuating Nigerians from Dubai, gave birth to a baby boy. The woman was among the Nigerian travellers stranded in the country who were travelling back to Nigeria. The woman gave birth thirty minutes after take-off which led to the return of the aircraft to Dubai. “She is…
Staff at Italy’s busiest airport are using augmented reality helmets to scan passenger temperatures. Fiumicino Airport in Rome is now the first in Europe to use ‘smart helmets’ to check the temperature of travellers. The helmets are equipped with portable thermoscanners that can screen people for symptoms of the new coronavirus at a very safe…
The Somali government is investigating the crash of a Kenyan supply plane Monday that killed six people amid suspicions it may have been shot down. The plane, which belonged to the African Express Airways, plunged around 3:30 p.m. local time, killing all six people on board. The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority reported Tuesday the twin-engine plane operated…
An oxygen bottle exploded in the tail section of a Learjet 25D in Argentina. A Learjet 25D, LV-WOC, was substantially damaged when an oxygen bottle exploded in the tail section at San Fernando Airport (SADF), Argentina. The aircraft was parked, there were no injures.
By the end of May, the airline plans to grow its network back to over 50 destinations with a further number of destinations planned to be added by the end of June. Qatar Airways will begin a phased approach to expanding its network in line with passenger demand evolution and the expected relaxation of entry…
United Airlines to cut 30% of management in October. Chicago-based United is among the U.S. airlines that have accepted U.S. government payroll aid that bans job or pay cuts before Sept. 30. However, United and other carriers have warned that demand is unlikely to recover to pre-crisis levels by that date, forcing them to shrink…
Virgin Atlantic to cut about 3,150 jobs and end its operation at Gatwick airport. Virgin Atlantic, which is in the process of applying for emergency loans from the government, also plans to reduce the size of its fleet of aircraft from 45 to 35 by the summer of 2022. Virgin’s seven Boeing 747s were to…