A small plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a highway and narrowly avoided cars on the road outside of Quebec City, Canada. The pilot managed to find a gap in the traffic to make a smooth landing on Highway 40 without hitting anything or injuring anyone. Other drivers are left baffled as…
Over 4,700 employees stand to lose their jobs. The airline could be grounded permanently after the department of enterprises rejected a request for a R10 billion bailout earlier this month. SAA will have to sell off most of its assets to be able to pay off creditors and settle workers’ severance packages. The business rescue…
Virgin Australia has managed to beat the longest flight time set by rival Qantas in October last year. On Monday a Virgin Australia 777-300ER, registration VH-VPD, landed in Paris on a flight from Auckland, New Zealand via Hong Kong. The flight was a repatriation flight organised by the French Government. On Tuesday the 777 took…
The Queensland state government has offered Virgin Australia a conditional $200 million bailout ($127.3 million, €117.1 million £101.9 million). One of the conditions include Virgin keeping it’s headquarters in the Queensland capital of Brisbane. Other conditions include the Australian Government backing the airline, debt restructuring, shareholders and bondholders “doing their bit” and ongoing regional flights.…
Boeing will resume all Commercial Airplanes production in a phased approach at its Puget Sound-region facilities next week, after suspending operations last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At all of its sites, the company has taken extra precautions and instituted comprehensive procedures to keep people safe and fight the spread of COVID-19. “The…
Air New Zealand has laid off it’s entire B777 staff and some of their B787 staff. The airline plans to keep it’s entire 777 fleet grounded until at least April next year. Newshub reports that mid to long haul crew will reduce to 583, down from 1533. Inflight service managers will be cut to 70,…
The Australian government has agreed to underwrite the cost of Qantas and Virgin Australia routes between state capital cities and regional centres. It will cost the government $165 million over 8 weeks. The announcement means that Virgin Australia will be able to reinstate 200 of the 8000 staff that had been previously stood down. The…
In the coming weeks, Lufthansa will temporarily decommission the entire Airbus A340-600 fleet. Three aircraft of this type have already been flown to Teruel, in northeastern Spain. The long-haul aircraft will be parked at the airport there. Lufthansa plans to transfer the entire A340-600 fleet, equaling 17 aircraft, to Teruel where they will be decommissioned…
Pilots are prohibited within two days of flying from experimenting with two yet unproven medications to prevent coronavirus infection, the Federal Aviation Administration has determined. “Use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus infection is disqualifying while on the medication and for 48 hours after the last dose before reporting for flight or other safety…
A helicopter belonging to the Tunisian army verified compliance with the lockdown and the curfew imposed. A group of youth deiced to violate the lockdown by playing football however. The Tunisian army had a very creative way to disperse the match by using a Bell 205 helicopter for near proximity.
Boeing customers canceled a staggering number of 737 Max orders last month. Boeing on Tuesday posted 150 cancellations of its beleaguered 737 Max jets in March, the most in decades, the company said. Brazilian airline Gol canceled 34 of the narrow-body planes and leasing firm Avolon scrapped orders for 75 of them, a move it…