An Emergency Airworthiness Directive released by EASA says that cracks have been detected on the rear wing spars of the early A380s. The cracks are between ribs 33 and 49, on both side and could affect the structural integrity of the wings. The European Aviation Safety Agency, therefore, recommends operators repeated checks for the affected…
Police at Heathrow Airport are investigating how a 12-year-old boy slipped through security and managed to board a British Airways flight to Los Angeles without a ticket or boarding pass. The unaccompanied child, who had no travel documents, mingled with passengers getting on the flight and was only spotted when cabin crew asked to see…
United Airlines expects to cancel more than 8,000 flights through October because of the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max planes. United said Friday that it is dropping its 14 Max jets from the schedule until Nov. 3 — a month longer than previously planned. The airline has used spare planes to cover flights that…
Ryanair has dropped the word ‘MAX’ on of one of its Boeing 737 MAX 200. A photo posted by a Renton-based aviation spotter (@AeroimagesChris) shows a Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX 200 without the MAX branding. The word ‘MAX’ on the exterior of the aircraft, which is now simply designated as a Boeing 737-8200. Ryanair has…
A series of planned strikes at Heathrow Airport in a dispute over pay is threatening to cause summer travel chaos. More than 4,000 workers, including security guards, engineers, passenger service operatives and drivers, are set to walk out on 26 July and 27 July, 5 August and 6 August, and 23 August and 24 August,…
A French inventor and entrepreneur on Sunday soared above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders. Former jet-skiing champion Franky Zapata, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the…
British Airways has announced that all direct flights to and from Heathrow and Beijing will move to new state-of-the-art Daxing airport from October 27th . The flag-carrier follows Finnair into the airport. With a massive 52,000m2 available for retail, food and beverage and service, facilities at Beijing Daxing for British Airways’ customers will include over…
Boeing’s 737 jet program manager, Eric Lindblad, will retire in a matter of weeks after roughly 12 months on the job, according to a company memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. Lindblad’s departure, after a 34-year career at Boeing, comes as the world’s largest planemaker navigates one of the worst crises in its history. Boeing’s…
The pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in control of the plane “until the end”, French investigators reportedly suspect, after gaining access to “crucial” flight data. The readouts “lend weight” to suspicions that he crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, they were cited as saying. The revelations based on Boeing data came days…
Flights are suspended at Gatwick Airport due to “an air traffic control systems issue”. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 4 Traffic is resuming as @emirates #EK9 was about to divert to Heathrow but now heading to Gatwick. UPDATE 3 easyJet #U28552 is landing at Gatwick. UPDATE 2 According to ATC, Gatwick Airport is…
Switzerland’s Patrouille Suisse squadron has apologized for making a fly-by over the wrong municipality. Instead of marking the centenary of an aviation pioneer’s death, it startled visitors at a yodeling event. The commander of the Swiss air force’s aerobatics team has apologized after a fly-by on Saturday that was meant to have taken place over the birthplace…
