Heathrow Airport has a secret huge, ghost railway station built to serve Terminal 5. The empty station, completed in 2008, already has platforms but the track and signals would need to be installed for it to be operational. Speaking to BBC News, an exclusive tour, Heathrow’s Chris Joyce said: “The scale is absolutely immense and that for…
UA82 from Newark to New Delhi turned around near Moscow and diverted to London Heathrow with a technical fault The flight has since landed, and as a result another 777 (N78001, originally at Brussels, flight UA998 BRU-JFK cancelled, flew BRU to LHR) will fly the passengers from Heathrow to New Delhi.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence has said that RAF Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers heading towards UK airspace. The typhoons were dispatched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire following the security alert. Spokesperson: “situation on-going and this is not uncommon: BBC News says the UK’s airspace extends 12 miles from the UK coastline.…
AFP: Aerospace and transportation company #Bombardier says it is to cut 7,000 jobs — Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) February 17, 2016 Correction: Aerospace and transportation company #Bombardier says it is to cut 7,000 jobs – 1,340 jobs will be lost in the UK — Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) February 17, 2016 Aerospace firm Bombardier to…
Middle East carrier Oman Air has paid a record amount for a pair of take off and landing slots at Heathrow. The airline paid $75m for the two slots in a deal with Air France-KLM. The airline declined to confirm the price paid for the slots. Air France-KLM refused to comment. This price would make…
United from the 5th April to 24th May is to begin 787-9 service on its route between San Francisco and London Heathrow. One of their twice daily service will be operated by the 787-9 instead of 747. UA901 departs SFO at 12:45 and arrives at LHR at 07:10 the following day. UA900 departs LHR at…
Iberia begins on 24th April service to Asturias from London Heathrow. The new flight will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. IB3610 departs Asturias at 18:20, and arrives LHR at 19:15 The return IB3603 departs LHR at 20:30 and arrives back to Asturias at 23:25 From airlineroute.net
Malaysia Airlines has delayed its plans to sell some of its A380 jets. It now plans to keep all six until 2018 after it retired is 777 fleet. The airline has tried to unsuccessfully sell the planes for the last year as a cost cutting plan in which also saw the airline stop many European…
Virgin Atlantic flight VS25 returned to Heathrow last night with 252 passengers and 15 crew after an incident when the first officer was shone by a laser. POLICE STATEMENT Aircraft forced to return to Heathrow after being hit by a laser strike #consdieryouractions #laserstrike CAD4 — Aviation Policing (@MPSHeathrow) February 14, 2016 STATEMENT FROM VIRGIN…
