United said Thursday that it has plans for Houston-Sydney service, an 8,596-mile flight that means the carrier will operate the three longest flights offered by a U.S. airline, as well as the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-longest flights in the world. The service, aboard a Boeing 787-9 seating 252 passengers, will begin Jan. 18.
Delta flight #DL964 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Detroit was carrying 154 people when the Airbus A320 suffered engine failure. “There was a crackling noise a couple of times, in the middle of the flight ,” a passenger in row 16, who did not want to be identified, told WWJ-TV. The flight was…
The joint administrators of Monarch Airlines and Monarch Travel Group have this afternoon confirmed that some 1,858 employees have been made redundant. Of these, 1,760 were employees of Monarch Airlines, while 98 were employed by Monarch Travel Group. Mr Swaffield said the decision not to continue trading was made on Saturday night after estimating that…
A third Heathrow runway is set to be given the go-ahead within nine months, Chris Grayling says. The Transport Secretary is preparing to press ahead with the expansion of the airport, which is expected to be backed by MPs next year. He told the Standard: “Subject to the necessary consultation work and securing the backing of Parliament, we are…
EasyJet has reached out to Monarch employees, encouraging them to apply for jobs at the rival airline following the collapse of Monarch Airlines. As part of the airline’s latest and largest ever recruitment, there are still opportunities for 100 cabin crew in Luton, 400 in Gatwick as well as a number of direct entry Captains.…
The Civil Aviation Authority’s flying programme completed 61 flights in its first day of operation, returning passengers stranded by the collapse of Monarch Airlines to the UK. In total some 11,843 passengers were flown back to the UK, from 24 destinations.
A video of Houthi militants downing a US surveillance drone in Yemen has emerged in the internet. The footage, published by Yemen’s Al-Masirah television network, shows an anti-aircraft missile launched by Houthi forces destroying the MQ-9 Reaper, an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). At the end of the video, a crowd of people is seen standing next to the burning wreckage…
An Antonov An-148 was forced to turn around to Talakan regional airport (Russia) after right engine caught fire moments after take-off . The flight #IK9788 of the Russian regional airline Angara Airlines from Talakan Regional Airport to Irkutsk International Airport (Russia) had taken off around noon (local time) when after a few minutes, the passengers could…
Thousands of people have watched as a Qatar Airways aircraft flew in formation over Doha with the world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team, an event taking place as the airline celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The event, hosted by the British ambassador to the State of Qatar, Ajay Sharma, and Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar…
The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation is under way after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, with 110,000 customers to be brought back home on specially chartered planes. The accountants KPMG announced in the early hours of Monday that Monarch, Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand, had been placed into administration and that all further flights from the UK had…
UPDATE 10:47 UTC 50 dead & 200 injured in shooting near Las Vegas Airport police say. UPDATE 09:00 UTC The shooter fired from 32nd floor near Las Vegas Airport, 20+ dead, 100+ injured. UPDATE 07:47 UTC Limited flight activity has resumed at Las Vegas airport. Las Vegas McCarran Airport was temporally shut down due to active shooter nearby. Approx…
