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…
British Airways is retiring five Boeing 747-400s this week. G-CIVL took off this morning to Kemble for it’s very last flight after 23 years of service. London Heathrow live: cam.airlive.net/lhr
Virgin Australia has entered a trading halt for the second time in as many weeks. The Guardian Australia reports Virgin has hired insolvency experts from Deloitte to work on restructure scenarios and a debt expert from Houlihan Lokey. The airline told ABC News Australia, “Virgin Australia has requested a trading halt as it continues to…
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All passengers arriving in Japan at Tokyo Narita airport among others are tested for Coronavirus upon landing. Tokyo Narita Airport baggage claim has become a cardboard box hotel for arriving international passengers, awaiting their coronavirus test result. The cost for travelers to stay in the boxes is US$140. Passengers arriving in Japan, from coronavirus-stricken areas…
South Australia’s Department of Health (SA Health) has asked approximately 750 Qantas staff to self-isolate as a strategy to control the cluster of COVID-19 among Qantas baggage handlers at Adelaide Airport. So far the cluster has 34 cases. It consists of 18 baggage handlers, 13 close contacts of the handlers and 3 other Qantas…
Air Canada today said it is reconfiguring the cabins of three of its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft to give them additional cargo capacity. The first aircraft conversion is complete and is now in service, with the second and third aircraft to be completed shortly. The three Boeing 777-300ER aircraft are being converted by Avianor, an aircraft…
The Antonov An-225 has arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan. From here it will depart to China to be loaded with medical supplies. It will then back to Warsaw Chopin Airport, Poland. With a capacity to carry 250 tons of cargo, the An-225 is equivalent to two and a half times the payload of a Boeing 777F.
British Airways will send more Airbus A380s to France for storage. Last week British Airway ferried the half if its Airbus A380 fleet to France. British Airways will send its remaining 5 Airbus A380 aircraft to Châteauroux “Marcel Dassault” Airport, France for storage. It means no BA A380 will be parked at Heathrow anymore. British…
