Lufthansa will cancel nearly 900 flights scheduled for Wednesday 27th April from six of Germany’s airports as workers strike due to pay discussions due to take place later in the week. Munich and Frankfurt will see the most disruption with up to 87,000 passengers affected. Lufthansa has cancelled many flight and have urged passengers to…
Michael McMahon takes his younger brother Robbie (5) who suffers from William Syndrome which is neurodevelopmental disorder that affects 1 in 10,000 people worldwide, for his first flight. Source: Joe.ie
Two separate investigations are underway into a plane crash in Co Longford that claimed the life of a man in his forties. William Hillick from Mullingar in Co Westmeath died when his single-seater aircraft came down at the Abbeyshrule Aerodrome off the N55 Athlone Road following an ‘acrobatic stunt show’ at around 6 o’clock yesterday evening. Both…
A strike by French air traffic controllers is expected to continue until tomorrow morning – causing chaos for passengers. The workers in France downed tools yesterday in a row over plans to lower the rates for new staff. Flights from Ryanair, easyJet, and British Airways are among those suffering long delays and cancellations. Ryanair says…
An EasyJet flight from Geneva to Copenhagen was moments from taking off when a passenger glanced out of his window and noticed a spanner in the wing. The passenger alerted the pilot and the flight was halted. “I realised straight away that what I was seeing was not normal. “There was a spanner attached to…
Laolu Opebiyi, a British man from London was thrown off an Easyjet flight after a fellow passenger saw he had sent a message about ‘Prayer’ to a Whatsapp group called ISI Men. Opebiyi, a Christian was trying to arrange prayer via conference call with fellow believers. A passenger asked him about the message, then told cabin crew,…
A woman claiming to have suffered whiplash due to a ‘heavy’ landing has been awarded over €19,000 in damages. Rose Collins, 27, explained that the plane bounced on the runway a few times and then came to a sharp halt. She says she was thrown forward and hit her head on the seat on front…
Gardaí (Irish Police) are investigating an incident in which a TNT cargo flight from Amsterdam to Shannon was targeted by someone using a laser. The crew on board the TAY 1461 reported to air traffic control that a green laser had been directed at their jet just after 10:15 pm while they were on approach to Shannon last Thursday…