A plane of Romanian airline TAROM was forced to make an emergency landing in Istanbul due to a bomb threat. The aircraft was returning from Tel Aviv to Bucharest on Thursday night when the pilot received a warning about the presence of a bomb on board. 88 passengers were on board the plane. The crew…
A journalist has lashed out on the IndiGo airline for alleged mistreatment of her, while travelling on one of its domestic flights. Rishika Baruah, a journalist working with NDTV has written a blog, sharing her ordeal while travelling with her child, an infant on a Goa-Delhi flight. She alleges that three male cabin crew members…
The trade union ver.di has called for a one day strike at several German airports. This massively affects the Frankfurt Airport on Monday, March 27th and the Munich Airport on Sunday, March 26th and Monday, March 27th. For Monday, March 27, the trade union ver.di has called for a one-day strike at several German airports…
Two people have been hospitalized after a crash landing at Falcon Field Airport on Friday, Mesa fire officials said. First responders were initially called to the airport around 1 p.m. for reports of two planes colliding mid-flight. By the time authorities arrived, one aircraft had landed safely while the other, an Air Force Warbird, had…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was in its takeoff roll at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) when an ambulance crossed the same runway, coming within 173 feet of the plane. The distance between the moving plane and the ambulance was less than half the length of a football field. A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…
An off-duty pilot from another airline has helped a Southwest Airlines plane land safely in Las Vegas after one of its pilots required “medical attention” shortly after departure. A Southwest Airlines spokesman told FOX Business that the incident involving Flight 6013 from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio, happened on Wednesday. “The Pilot was removed from…
Several passengers have been injured after High Fly A330 was hit by severe turbulence. Taag’s Flight #DT650 was operated by High Fly from Luanda to Lisbon. When flying at an altitude of 38,000 feet, the Airbus A330 (reg: 9H-HFG) was hit by severe turbulence over Northern Africa . When the turbulence occurred, 10 people were…
The DGAC has been warning airlines that the kerosene reserves at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports are “under tension”. The supply of kerosene to Ile-de-France and its airports from Normandy “is becoming critical” due to strikes in refineries, the Ministry of Energy Transition told AFP on Thursday, which is ready to make requisition strikers . Given…
U.S. airlines have had to travel long distances to and from Asia because of the war in Ukraine, giving foreign rivals flying the same route an advantage. Unable to fly through Russian airspace because of the war in Ukraine, U.S. airlines are stepping up a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill and at the White House…
Protests and strikes spread across France over pensions reform. The access to airport terminal 1 is blocked by protesters at Paris Roissy CDG Airport. Protests intensified in France since Tuesday after the government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote. Over several nights of sporadic demonstrations there have been more than 1,500 protests in cities including Marseille,…
The Wall Street Journal brings us the report of Boeing’s baffling mental gymnastics in attempting to avoid culpability in the two 737 Max crashes that killed a total of 346 people. WSJ reports, in a recent court filing Boeing attorneys “cited an expert who said that the 737 MAX victims died painlessly because the airplane crashed…
A New York mother claims her son died after he went into cardiac arrest on an American Airlines flight to Florida and the defibrillator on board was not charged. According to a recent filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Melissa Arzu and his son Kevin Greenidge traveled from San Pedro Sula,…