Swiss is grounding its entire Airbus A220 fleet. An A220 aircraft from London to Geneva was diverted Tuesday morning on Paris following a new engine problem. These coming days will be complicated for Swiss and its passengers. The airline has confirmed that it will have to overhaul the engines of its Airbus A220 “fleet…
A Southwest Airlines flight had to be evacuated when it arrived at Midway Airport Monday morning. A Southwest spokesperson said the plane experienced a “hydraulic issue following landing.” The passengers on board had to deplane the aircraft on airstairs, and take buses to the terminal. When the plane arrived from Austin, Texas, the flight…
A caller to 111 just after 6:30am on Monday claimed there was a bomb in a building on Geoffrey Roberts Rd. Police evacuated the building and others nearby. Roads near Auckland Airport were blocked off and flights temporarily suspended. There were delays heading into the airport, with sections of Laurence Stevens Dr and Geoffrey Roberts…
An Angola Airlines Boeing 777-300ER rolling away from its parked location, into a grassy area at Porto Airport (OPO) in Portugal. According to Jornal de Notícias, the Boeing 777 (reg. D2-TEH) arrived in Porto as DT654 at 5:43 a.m. local time after making its way from Luanda (LAD) in Angola. The plane was parked it…
Airlines in Japan will cancel more than 1,500 domestic flights on Saturday due to a powerful typhoon. Japan Airlines will cancel 513 flights across the country including most to and from Haneda and Narita airports. All Nippon Airways will cancel 490 flights including all to and from Haneda and Narita. The other affected carriers are…
A plane operated by Silverstone Air has skidded off the runway at Wilson Airport in the capital Nairobi. Witnesses say the aircraft lost its way during take-off to Mombasa on Friday morning. Images from the scene showed that the aircraft plunged into a thicket, hitting some trees and breaking part of its wing, before being…
A climate change protester has climbed on to a British Airways plane preparing for take-off, as Extinction Rebellion activists seek to “shut down” London City airport. Sources from the group have identified the activist as James Brown, a paralympian in his early fifties who is registered as visually impaired and won bronze in the London…
An Extinction Rebellion protester got on board a plane a London City Airport today as flight passengers braced for chaos with the climate activists. Police had arrested 12 people with the demonstration just 30 minutes old this morning as video footage showed people involved in the ‘Fly Today, No Tomorrow’ protest being dragged away by…
Japan Airlines Dreamliner took damage to its left engine casing when it came into contact with an airbridge on taxiing to its gate at Taipei-Taoyuan Airport. The Boeing 787-8 (reg. JA824J) was being towed to the gate for boarding as #JL802 to Tokyo Narita.
Seven Britons were reportedly escorted off a budget flight after it was forced to make an emergency landing when a row broke out. Onlookers claim the easyJet flight from Manchester to Tenerife was forced to divert to Portugal after an argument between two groups of men that saw one allegedly spit at a woman. The…
A British Airways aircraft that took off from Larnaca on Wednesday afternoon made an emergency landing in Athens after smoke was detected in the cabin. According to Greek media, the aircraft, bound for London, landed at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens at around 7.35pm after smoke was detected in the cabin while the aircraft…
An-12 transport aircraft made an emergency landing near the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday, when the plane ran out of fuel, the country’s Minister of Infrastructure announced. According to preliminary data, 5 people died when an An-12 aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing near the Lviv airport in Ukraine, stated Infrastructure Minister…