Israeli officials refused 130 South Korean passengers to disembark upon arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Korean Air flight KE957, operated by a Boeing 777-200, arrived in Tel Aviv at around 7.30 pm on Saturday evening after a near 12-hour flight from Seoul. But on arrival, the aircraft…
A convoy of five aircraft made up of two Boeing 747F and three Boeing 777F carrying approximately 300 tonnes of medical supplies free-of-charge to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Five Qatar Airways Cargo freighters departed to China today carrying approximately 300 tonnes of medical supplies donated by the airline to support Cornavirus relief efforts. The five…
Former Air France A380 F-HPJB is on it’s final flight to be scrapped. This aircraft was on lease to Air France from the Dr. Peters group and returned to the lessor after a full repainting. The A380 flew from Paris CDG to Dresden, Germany On January 2nd and is now on its way to Knock,…
During storm Dennis, the United Kingdom was buffeted by heavy rain and winds of up to 50mph, the second-weekend storm in a row. There was significant travel disruption and hundreds of flights had to be cancelled at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) so that aircraft could be given more time and space to land. Crosswind landings…
Boeing has told employees that it discovered foreign-object debris in fuel tanks of “several” 737 Max planes the manufacturer has in storage, CNBC learned Tuesday. Foreign object debris “is absolutely unacceptable,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes executive Mark Jenks, a vice president and general manager of the 737 program and Renton production facility, according to the company’s…
The photo of Valerie Kybad, a porn actress, in underwears on a RAM flight has created a wave of controversy in Morocco. Morocco’s state-owned carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has issued a statement to apologize to its customers after an indecent photo taken on one of the airline’s flights circulated on social media. The photo,…
Thousands of passengers are facing cancellations and delays on Sunday after a systems failure affecting all terminals at London Heathrow airport. Departing passengers on social media reported “pandemonium” with information screens unavailable, while arriving travellers were stuck on planes or waiting in the terminal for baggage. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe. The failure…
The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies. European planemaker Airbus (AIR.PA) said the U.S. move would hit U.S. airlines already facing a shortage of aircraft and complicate…
The A330-800 has received joint Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The aircraft’s certification flight-test campaign was successfully performed by aircraft MSN1888, which completed the programme in 370 flight test hours and 132 flights since its first flight in November 2018. The A330-800, part of a…
A woman who tried to open a passenger plane door mid-flight, prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled, has been jailed for two years. Chloe Haines, 26, from High Wycombe, scratched a crew member as she lunged at the door shouting “I’m going to kill you all,” the court heard. Two RAF fighter jets rushed…
The Turkish carrier AtlasGlobal filed for bankruptcy and halted all flight operations after two periods of flight suspensions in the last three months. The airline was facing financial difficulties since November 2019, when the airline had to stop its operations but resumed flights to Antalya, London, Baghdad, Tel-Aviv, Tehran and Amsterdam on December 2019. Atlasglobal…
