A passenger has allegedly choked out a flight attendant while on board an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Brisbane. The flight was due in at 7.40am on Friday but was forced to make a diversion to Honolulu following the debacle. Video of the incident captured the end of the confrontation, when Hawaiian police officers…
On November 5, 2022, a company organized a selection process to be part of the cabin crew of an airline. The recruitment company Meccti advertised jobs for Kuwait Airways. The process took place in a room at the Meliá Barajas hotel, very close to the Madrid airport. In a publication, Meccti announced the recruitment process…
The airline has been putting the uniform to the test over the last six months in secret trials. British Airways has today unveiled a new uniform to take the airline into its next chapter. The collection of garments, created by British fashion designer and tailor Ozwald Boateng OBE, will be worn by more than 30,000…
Air India airlines on Wednesday banned for 30 days the man who allegedly peed at an elderly woman travelling in business class and exposed his private parts to her on a flight from New York to Delhi in November 2022. The airlines, in an official statement, said that they have taken very serious note of…
United Airlines #UA858 took off in 2023 but will land in 2022. United Airlines #UA858 took off from South Korea in 2023 and will land in the USA in 2022. The Boeing 777-300ER took off from Seoul shortly after midnight. The flight is expected to land in San Francisco more than 6 hours before the…
Southwest Airlines, caught in a vexing tangle of misplaced staff and technical problems since last week’s winter storm, said Thursday that it planned to return to normal operations on Friday. More than 2,300 of Southwest’s flights were canceled on Thursday, or about 58 percent of the flights that it had scheduled for the day. But…
The US has become the latest country to impose Covid testing on visitors from China, after Beijing announced it would reopen borders next week. Italy, Japan, Taiwan and India also announced mandatory tests, but Australia and UK said there were no new rules for travellers from China. After three years of being closed to the…
Amazon has begun delivering orders by drone. Amazon Prime Air is now operating in Lockeford, Calif. and College Station, Texas, delivering a small number of packages just in time for Christmas. In August of this year, the retail giant received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to use drones for package deliveries. The maximum payload…
Bob Jordan apologized to frustrated Southwest customers, and thanked employees working to get travelers where they need to go. Southwest Airlines pilots blamed poor planning for thousands of flights being delayed or cancelled over the weekend, resulting in massive frustration among passengers. No other airlines faced a large number of delays or cancellations. Bob…
A Boeing 747-8 BBJ is being part out and scrapped in Arizona these days with the jumbo jet reportedly flying for less than 30 hours of total flight with its owner. The aircraft with registration N458BJ became the world’s first 747-8 airframe to be scrapped, just 10 years after it was delivered to its owner.…
A powerful Arctic winter storm has placed more than 135 million people under weekend weather alerts. Airlines canceled more than 2,400 US flights by 9 p.m. ET Thursday and proactively canceled more than 2,200 flights for Friday, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware. Even for Saturday, more than 125 flights were already canceled. Delays…
Two U.S. citizens were arrested for allegedly conspiring with Russian hackers to hack the JFK Airport taxi dispatch system to move specific taxis to the front of the queue in exchange for a $10 fee. The taxi dispatch system is a computer-controlled system that ensures that taxis are dispatched from the airport’s holding lot to…