The Australian government, Qantas and Virgin Australia have reached a deal to rescue Australians still overseas. Under the deal the airlines would fly with an empty cabin, but full of freight to 4 international hubs, London, LA, Hong Kong and Auckland. The government would subsidise the outgoing flights, with returning passengers paying full fare. The…
Qantas has received a letter from SafeWork NSW to say it is being investigated after standing down a COVID-19 whistleblower. The employee is a cleaner, union delegate and elected health and safety rep. They were stood down on 2 February. Qantas told ABC News Australia “A union delegate was stood down pending an investigation…
This coronavirus crisis is so much more severe than past downturns in the industry that there’s a good chance there could be a new round of mergers and airline failures that the industry has gone through in the past. “In the near term, we’re going to see a shakeout,” said Joe Schwieterman, a transportation expert…
Virgin Australia was placed in a trading halt this week. The trading halt was to announce that the airline had requested a $1.4 billion ($US843 661 000, £681,863,000, €777,315,000) loan from the Australian government. Virgin has about 6 months of reserves, but requested the loan to “bolster the airline’s ability to reinstate workers once the…
(file picture) The leader of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, accused unidentified Americans of swooping in with cash to secure shipments already promised to French buyers. “We lost an order to the Americans who outbid us on a shipment that we had lined up,” said Valerie Pecresse, the chief of France’s most populous region.…
Heathrow Airport is going to shut down one of its two runways and operate take offs and landings from just one runway. With countries around the world banning travel and the British Government advising against travel outside the country, the number of flights leaving Heathrow has fallen dramatically, leading to the decision to shut down…
Emirates will resume operating some passenger flights next week after it suspended operations on March 25. The airline got approval from UAE authorities to begin flying a limited number of passenger flights starting April 6 and will initially only carry travelers outbound from the UAE, Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said in…
Fold and Fly offers 44 models of paper planes. It therefore contains extremely detailed instructions including photos of each stage, a printable PDF and the presentation of the movements on video.
Moray Council has confirmed plans have been put in place to use an old aircraft hangar at Kinloss as a temporary mortuary during the outbreak. The space, which used to house Nimrod spy planes, would only be used in the “worst case” senario if there are a large number deaths in the local area. The…
Scottish airline Loganair has begun flying into London Heathrow for the first time. It has transferred its regular link between Isle of Man and London from City Airport (which is temporarily closed) to Heathrow. Loganair is using Terminal 5, the home of British Airways, which has consolidated its Heathrow operations at T5. The single flight…
Current KLM aircraft parked at Amsterdam Schiphol: 13 x Airbus A330 15 x Boeing 777-200 fleet 7 x Boeing 747-400 17 x Embraer 175 15 x Embraer 190 34 x Boeing 737
On march 29, 2020, the passenger version of the KLM 747 made her final commercial landing at Amsterdam airport Schiphol. The Queen of the skies flew for KLM for nearly 50 years, so it’s truly the end of an era. This video includes the last 3 commercial landings of the pax 747’s of KLM.