A flight from London to Los Angeles on Tuesday was forced to divert from its intended flight path due to an unruly passenger. Virgin Atlantic flight 141 took off from London Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom but was forced to land before its anticipated destination of Los Angeles International Airport in the United States…
Jonas Vingegaard made a triumphant return to Denmark on Wednesday following his victory at the Tour de France. As he crossed into Danish airspace, two Danish Air Force fighter jets escorted Vingegaard’s private plane on its journey to Copenhagen. Moments after touching down on Danish soil, he would be driven in an Audi Cabriolet from…
JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced it would purchase Spirit Airlines, a combination that would create America’s fifth-largest airline. The announcement comes a day after Spirit pulled the plug on a deal to merge with Frontier. JetBlue had been pursuing a hostile bid for Spirit even while Spirit sought shareholder approval for a lower-priced deal with…
A Jubba Airways Fokker 50 flipped over on landing at Mogadishu Aden Abdulle International Airport in Somalia. CCTV footage shows the moment Jubba Airways crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s capital last week. There were no fatalities among the 36 people on board. The Fokker 50 with registration 5Y-JXN was…
The boss of Frankfurt Airport in Germany has blamed the chaos at airports on black suitcases, the Guardian reported on Friday, citing German media. Stefan Schulte, the head of Frankfurt Airport, advised passengers to hand carry their belongings when possible and to use suitcases that are easy to spot. Black suitcases are so common, it’s…
An elderly wheelchair user was almost hospitalized after she was stranded for more than 14 hours at the Orlando airport earlier this month. Patty Bough, 85, told Orlando’s Fox 35 that Frontier Airlines employees failed to wheel her to her gate, after her granddaughter, who did not have a boarding pass, was denied entry at…
The United States flew a large number of fighter jets late last month above an area in the East China Sea that Japan and China dispute, Japanese government sources said. In an extremely rare development, some of the US fighters neared the Chinese mainland by going beyond a Tokyo-proposed median line separating the exclusive economic…
In an update on Tuesday, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia showed the members of the media some video footage of Odufuwa holding a gun in the air and firing rounds. On July 25, 2022, at 10:57 AM, Portia Odufuwa, 37, arrived at Love Field Airport and exited a red Kia sedan. The preliminary investigation shows…
A wild fight broke out between two women on a Las Vegas Spirit Airlines flight. It’s more and more common, but his time a brawl broke out between female passengers.
On Sunday two Delta flights collided with each other at Miami International Airport as they were getting ready for departure. Delta flight 1654 was heading from Miami to Atlanta, while Delta flight 2911’s destination was Boston. According to officials with the Miami International Airport, the Boston flight was backing out of its gate before departure…
Amid the confrontation between the US and Russia over the war in Ukraine, Russian space agency will quit the partnership on the International Space Station after 2024. This was announced on Tuesday at a meeting with Russian President Putin and Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. By 2024, the Russian Federation will then begin to…
The first European airline group Lufthansa will cancel “almost all” of its flights in Germany on Wednesday due to a strike by its ground staff, the company announced in a press release in an already tense context for aviation. More than 130,000 passengers on nearly a thousand flights departing from and arriving at the two…