Norwegian Air is close to reaching an agreement with Italian leisure carrier Neos for the sale of two of its 787-9 Dreamliners amid the coronavirus pandemic. These two 787-9s will join Neos fleet of four Dreamliners of the same model and replace Neos Air Boeing 767. Neos Air returned three 767s to the lessor recently.…
Singapore Airlines’ Airbus A380 restaurant tickets were sold out in just half an hour on Monday. Singapore Airlines announced that the airline is turning two of its Airbus A380s superjumbos parked at Changi Airport into a temporary restaurants on October 24th and 25th. The airline announced that tickets for economy seats start at SG$53 (US$40)…
For the duration of the winter timetable (until the end of March 2021) Lufthansa will be deploying four of the currently parked Airbus A350-900s to its hub in Frankfurt. Over the next few months the A350-900 will be serving Chicago and Los Angeles from Frankfurt, by temporarily replacing the Boeing 747-8 for this period of…
Icelandair has reached an agreement regarding sale of three Boeing 757-200 aircraft. The final documentation is expected to be completed in the upcoming weeks. Subsequently, the aircraft will be converted into cargo aircraft. The net sale price of the three aircraft is approximately USD 21 million which is USD 2-3 million above book value. Two…
Delta Airlines has confirmed that the airline will operate its final Boeing 777 flight on 31st October. The Atlanta-based carrier has scheduled two final flights at the end of October, the carrier confirmed to AirlineGeeks. The first of these flights will be operated from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on October…
Norwegian Air is considering laying off staff at its base at Gatwick Airport, a spokesman said on Friday The struggling budget airline steps up its cost-cutting drive to survive the industry’s worst crisis. The move could affect 259 cabin crew and pilots, just under a quarter of the 1,142 staff at Britain’s second-busiest airport, the…
British Airways chief executive and chairman Alex Cruz is stepping down to be replaced by the boss of Aer Lingus, Sean Doyle. Cruz will quit from the top job – one of the most high profile positions in British business – with immediate effect and become non-executive chairman. The decision was made by Luis Gallego,…
Turkey tracked U.S.-made F-16s flying in the eastern Mediterranean Sea using Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system The incident took place during the Eunomia joint exercise in August involving France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Turkey has used the S-400 radars to track its own F-16s in the past, a move seen as hostile toward the U.S.…
Etihad Airways have announced to have indefinitely grounded its entire fleet of A380s. The super jumbo is out of schedules since March. The airline is now grounding its ten A380s for at least the next 11 months due to Covid-19. It’s still not sure if the 10 A380s will return to the service.
An argument over face masks resulted in a fight onboard an Allegiant flight bound for Provo, and a woman caught the exchange on camera. Rylie Lansford was sitting right by the two men on Saturday’s flight, but as soon as one of them threw the first punch, she got out of the way and started…
Qantas 7-hour Boeing 787 Dreamliner scenic flight to nowhere have departed Saturday early with 150 passengers on board from Sydney. The scenic flight departed Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport at 10:45 am earlier today. The tickets for the flight was sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale. After achieving the sales record, a…
Airbus delivers A320 Family MSN10,000 to Middle East Airlines Middle East Airlines (MEA) has taken delivery of Airbus’ A320 Family aircraft with manufacturer serial number 10,000. MSN10,000 is the third A321neo to join the all Airbus MEA fleet, taking the fleet size to 18 aircraft. MEA received its first A321neo aircraft earlier in 2020 and…