Milan’s Malpensa Airport was temporarily closed by a drone flying near a terminal, forcing four planes to be redirected to nearby airports. The airport operator SEA said Monday that the airport was closed for about a half hour after the drone was sighted around midday. Three flights landed at Milan’s Linate airport and a fourth…
A United Airlines plane made an urgent emergency landing at greater Washington’s Dulles International Airport because of the weird and nauseating smell, according to Fox News. The incident occurred with the aircraft Boeing 737, en route from Baltimore-Washington Airport (BWI) to San Francisco. After making an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County,…
Amazon has agreed to a seven-year lease of five Boeing 737-800BCFs from Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. in order to diversify aircraft operations and go into markets that are too small for the 767s. The converted 737-800s will be subleased to and operated by Southern Air, a subsidiary of Atlas Air.
Air France is the first airline to offer a La Première service to Europe from Atlanta and the only airline to operate A380 from Atlanta Delta hub with four cabins. Air France, a joint venture partner of Delta Air Lines, starting March 31 will fly one of its two daily flights from Hartsfield-Jackson International to…
A Quick Alert Response (QRA) from Royal Air Force was launched today as Russian bombers flew off Norwegian and UK coasts. This morning NATO radars detected Russian Aircraft flying off Norwegian coasts. A Royal Air Force tanker took from from Brize Norton base as well as an E3-F Awacs for airborne radar detection. Two RAF Typhoons…
Plane manufacturer Boeing has issued an update to the control systems on the 737MAX. Boeing has issued an upgrade to the MCAS (Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System), a mechanism that has been linked to the crashes. Boeing has redesigned the software so that it will disable MCAS if it receives conflicting data from its sensors. As…
On website, WOW air has confirmed end of operations. Icelandic budget airline Wow Air has collapsed and gone out of business after failing to finalise an equity deal with investors. The Airline said ‘WOW AIR has ceased operation. All WOW AIR flights have been cancelled.’ Passengers are advised to check available flights with other airlines.…
On Tuesday, a passenger named Subbu Reddy shared a video of the Dhaka to Kolkata Indigo flight #6E1859. In the video, two flight attendants can be seen swatting mosquitoes with the help of a mosquito racket. The people on-board also seem to be irritated as they try to get rid of some flies. Last year,…
A naked male passenger was reportedly detained at Chicago O’Hare International Airport before boarding his flight. The unidentified man was filmed walking on the tarmac completely naked. Sources have shared that the man was attempting to board a flight departing from Chicago. The passenger was allegedly detained at Gate C10 at Chicago O’Hare’s Terminal 1.…
NASA has just been given a huge challenge. US vice president Mike Pence announced that president Donald Trump will direct the space agency to send astronauts to the moon by 2024. “The first woman and the next man on the moon will both be American astronauts launched by American rockets from American soil,” he said…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737MAX made a safe emergency landing Tuesday in Orlando, Florida, after experiencing an engine problem. The crew declared an emergency after taking off from Orlando International Airport around 2:50 p.m., and landed the plane safely. No passengers were on board. The aircraft (reg. N8712L) was being ferried to Victorville, California, where…
Customers across the U.S. reported airline computer issues at a number of airports. Passengers on the ground said the issues related to the flight check-in systems and were unable to issue boarding passes. A spokesperson for American Airlines confirmed the issue was with the Sabre flight reservation and booking system, used by several major airlines…