Qatar Airways to return to Gatwick next week
From August 20th, the flights will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, offering 22 seats in business class and 232 seats in economy.
Twins girls born on Mongolian airline flight get free lifetime tickets
Mongolia’s national airline MIAT on Thursday gave a certificate of free lifetime tickets to twin baby girls born in midair last month and their mother. The twins were born on a chartered flight from Istanbul, Turkey to Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator on July 9. They were born two months early. The babies and their 42-year-old…
Air passenger numbers to drop 60% in Europe in 2020 instead of 50% previously expected
Air passenger numbers in Europe are expected to drop by 60 percent in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, the global aviation industry said Thursday, with the recovery looking highly uncertain. Although air traffic in Europe has increased in recent months since its low point in April, flights remain “more than 50 percent below the…
Emirates to return to Birmingham in September operating four weekly Boeing 777-200LR flights
Emirates has announced it will resume passenger services to Birmingham from September 1st, operating four weekly Boeing 777-200LR flights to Dubai.
France and the Netherlands added to UK quarantine countries
People coming to the UK from France and the Netherlands will be forced to quarantine for 14 days from Saturday. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the measure – which also applies to people travelling from Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos, and Aruba – would kick in from 04:00 BST. He added that this was necessary…
INCIDENT A passenger was pulled by the feet from a Citilink plane at Raden Intan II airport in Indonesia
A man whose identity has not been identified was forcibly pulled from a Citilink plane at Radin Inten II Airport. The man, wearing a black shirt and brown pants, was seen being pulled by force by airport security officers and officers. The incident took place at Radin Inten II Airport on Wednesday, August 12, 2020…
No ILS at Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport, South Africa because calibration has expired
Pilots landing at certain South African airports may be forced to do so without an essential ground-based system used to guide planes safely towards the ground in low visibility. This is according to various notices to airmen (NOTAMs), including one issued on Monday 10 August. According to the notice, the Instrument Landing Systems (ILSs) used…
London Heathrow Airport still suffers 89% traffic drop
Heathrow’s passenger numbers were down 89% year-on-year in July, figures published by the airport show. Just 867,000 people travelling through the west London airport last month, compared with 7.754 million in July 2019. The latest monthly data reflects a slight uplift in passenger traffic since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Demand was down 95%…
When an #avgeek bear is climbing onto a plane in Alaska
In Chinitna bay, a curious juvenile bear liked the plane. The pilots said she was always curious about airplanes and it was probably the third or fourth encounter with her. The first few times she would just push the tail down, but pilots were able to chase her off. Occurred on August 17, 2017 /…
He celebrates his 95th birthday with a parachute jump
Maurice Ferrier will never forget the day of his 95th birthday. This former butcher, who had never boarded a plane, dreamed of going “to see what’s going on up there”. “If I’m fine at 95, I absolutely want to do it”. And he did. Maurice Ferrier wanted to celebrate his birthday in a way that…
Rolls-Royce A350 engines to be subject to an Airworthiness Directive after cracks found in compressor blades
Rolls-Royce will carry out extra inspections on some of its Trent XWB engines which power the Airbus A350 airliner. Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday that the issue would not cause significant customer disruption or material cost, as it affected a small number of XWBs of a certain age. The Trent XWB-84 engine is set to be…
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines have taken no-pay leave
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group have taken no-pay leave of varying lengths to help the company cope with the collapse in air travel due to Covid-19. In addition, more than 1,700 employees, including ground staff, pilots and cabin crew, have signed up for volunteer positions and jobs…