Aer Lingus is to cut up to 500 jobs due to the collapse in aviation traffic during the Covid-19 crisis. In a statement, the airline said it has formally notified the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding proposed collective redundancies at the airline. It said the crisis was having a “catastrophic” effect on…
Ryanair has announced it’s restarting flights early. The low-cost airline was due to resume flights on July 1 but has confirmed some routes will now restart on June 21 – the same day Spain lifts its border restrictions to welcome back tourists. A flight to Alicante in Spain is scheduled to leave East Midlands Airport…
In a Shareholders meeting on June 18, 2020, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian announced that the last Boeing 777 flight will take place before the end of Fall. Delta first indicated that the Boeing 777 would exit service by the end of 2020. Delta Air Lines currently has 18 Boeing 777 in its fleet.
A Surrey man is in RCMP custody after allegedly forcing a WestJet flight from Vancouver bound for Toronto to land in Winnipeg. RCMP say 60-year-old man lit a cigarette during the flight and refused to follow directions from the flight crew, including wearing a face mask. WestJet flight 706 was diverted to Winnipeg around 2:25…
Ukraine International Airlines flight cargo hold was being emptied in Toronto; 38 puppies dead from apparent suffocation. Ukraine Airlines flight #PS1241 landed at Pearson International Airport on June 13, carrying 500 puppies in the cargo hold that were meant to be sold in the Toronto area, according to a statement by the Canadian Food Inspection…
On Friday, June 26, Air France will perform a special Airbus A380 flight over France, with employees on-board, to mark the retirement of its 9 superjumbos, effective immediately. Take-off will be from Paris CDG at around noon, Ben Smith (AF-KLM CEO) and Anne Rigail (AF CEO) will also be on-board. More details to be announced…
As Emirates retired its first A380 from its fleet, the airline will likely remove two other A380s. “You’ll start seeing A380s coming out of our fleet for various reasons, and we’ve always said this,” said Emirates Airline President Tim Clark last year. “We are in the process of [starting A380 retirements],” he said at the…
SAS will reactivate 10 more aircraft next month to operate 40 planes. SAS will increase services from all of its three Scandinavian capital hubs. Several destinations will be added from Copenhagen, including transatlantic services to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. International flights will resume from Oslo, for destinations in Spain and Croatia, as well…
The parts of the last Airbus A380 superjumbo are on way for the outskirts of Toulouse where the final assembly will take place. The gigantic fuselage sections of MSN 272 have traveled by land, sea, and river, in order to cross the 500 kilometers that separate the factory of Montoir-de-Bretagne, in Loire Atlantique, to the…
Norwegian Air will restart flights to and from UK airports from July 1 “as a result of increased customer demand”. The airline will resume flights on 76 routes halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back into service 12 of its mothballed aircraft on top of the eight already flying, as European countries reopen and…
Air France plans to offer about 8,300 staff incentives to leave the airline, in a bid to cut costs without stirring a political backlash after receiving a massive state bailout, people familiar with the proposal said. The Air France-KLM unit will seek the voluntary exit of around 300 pilots, 2,000 cabin crew and 6,000 ground…
