NEWS Virgin Galactic gets its spaceship license

Virgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST). To get the paperwork, which allows Virgin Galactic to use its ship for commercial operations. The FAA looked into the vehicle’s system design, safety features…

NEWS Qantas Says No More A380s!

Qantas Airways have said that they do not want the remaining 8 Airbus A380s it still has on order because of sufficient demand being met on the current network that they already have. “Our intention is that we’re not taking those aircraft,” Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said Friday at an airline conference in Brisbane,…

NEWS Flybe Expands Portfolio with airberlin Codeshare

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, today (2ndAugust 2016) announces the signing of a significant codeshare relationship with airberlin.  Under the agreement, airberlin will place its marketing code on Flybe routes from Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster, Manchester and Southampton to Germany, as well as to Flybe’s new intra-European routes from Hannover to Lyon and Milan that commenced…

BREAKING easyJet #U27688 from Basel to Lisbon is declaring an emergency. Live:

Easyjet flight U27688 Airbus A320 from Basel to Lisbon declared an emergency. Reload the page for updates… UPDATE 2113UTC Easyjet flight U27688 diverted to Toulouse due to a technical issue. UPDATE 2021UTC Easyjet flight U27688 safely landed runway 32L in Toulouse. UPDATE 2015UTC Easyjet flight U27688 starting final approach to Toulouse. UPDATE 2004UTC Easyjet flight U27688 is diverting to Toulouse.