Delta Airlines have announced the introduction of their Delta Shuttle service from Seattle to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Seattle shuttle service complements existing Delta Shuttle service on the West Coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Delta Shuttle service on the West Coast is a product created with business travelers in mind that offers dedicated check-in counters and gates located near security, among…
Qatar Airways have announced that it will up gauge their Doha-Guangzhou service with the introduction of an Airbus A380 on the route. This will make the Chinese airport the 4th A380 destination in Qatar’s network. The airline currently operate their A380 aircraft on routes to London Heathrow, Bangkok and Paris. The A380 flights are to…
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is delighted to announce the return of another holiday operator to the Airport with the news that Bulgarian specialist operator Balkan Holidays is to operate to the Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria with a weekly departure to Bourgas for Summer 2017. Balkan Holidays last operated from Liverpool ten years ago and…
United Airlines continues to expand the number of cities it serves in interior China with the launch of new nonstop flights to Xi’an on Sunday, May 8. The flights from United’s Asia-Pacific gateway in San Francisco will be the first trans-Pacific service to Xi’an operated by any airline, and United will be the first U.S.…
EVA Air will launch nonstop flights from Chicago to Taipei on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. To start, the airline will operate four flights a week, using one of its latest-model, Wi-Fi equipped Boeing 777-300ERs comfortably configured for 333 passengers in Royal Laurel business, Elite premium economy and Economy Classes. EVA is also giving passengers more…
A Delta flight DL762 from Atlanta to Chicago made an emergency landing in Nashville Sunday afternoon after engine #2 cowling flew off the plane. According to news reports the aircraft was already approaching the end of its climb-out. When the flight encountered turbulence at 26.000 feet and the pilots received abnormal engine indications. There were 109…
Lufthansa have announced that their special Fanhansa jet, one of their Boeing B747-8 aircraft, will continue to have it’s livery on the jet until the 2018 World Cup to take the German national football team to each destination. It also be transporting the team to France for the Euro 2016 tournament. However, the Fanhansa livery…
Irish carrier CityJet have just released a picture of their first brand new Sukhoi SuperJet. They said via their social media that the aircraft was “nearly ready”. The aircraft is currently sat in Venice. This will now count the start of the airline’s fleet modernisation after they ordered 15 of the SuperJets. CityJet have not…
An Ivy League economist was pulled off an American Airlines regional jet from Philadelphia to Syracuse after a fellow passenger incorrectly identified the mathematical equations he was scrawling for foreign script, and suspected him of terrorism. An unidentified woman sitting next to him tried to strike up a conversation with Guido Menzio as they waited…
A woman passed out on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco Sunday and was pronounced dead after the flight made an emergency landing in Montana, police say. The Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office says the flight made the emergency landing at the Billings Logan International Airport Saturday night. The woman has not been identified and…
Seventeen passengers were injured today when a Hong Kong Airlines flight hit severe turbulence over Borneo after taking off from the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an airport official said. The extreme weather forced Hong Kong-bound Flight HX6704 carrying 204 passengers and 12 crew to return to Denpasar. “Seventeen people were injured, 12 must be…
Friday, Singapore Airlines flight SQ16 to San Francisco was forced to make an emergency stop during takeoff when the controller told the pilots that Korean Air flight KE929 (Airbus A330-200) to St Petersburg (Russia) was crossing the runway without permission. Bounded for San Francisco, SQ16 flight, which was carrying 186 people on board, was running at 90-100 km/h as it…