French air traffic controllers cancel Friday strike and declare ‘Olympic truce’. France’s main union of air traffic controllers has agreed not to call strike action until both the Olympic and Paralympic Games hosted by Paris are finished in September 2024 – including calling off a strike planned for Friday. The so-called “Olympics Truce” by the…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s aircraft experienced a technical issue forcing the entire Canadian delegation to stay in India, where this year’s G20 summit took place. Trudeau, his delegation and media travelling with the prime minister were set to depart on Sunday night, local time. However, shortly before leaving, the Canadian Armed Forces discovered a mechanical…
Passengers on board a flight bound for Singapore from Shanghai on Wednesday were stuck in the plane for nearly eight hours due to a technical fault. Singapore Airlines (SIA) Flight SQ833 was scheduled to leave Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 4.50pm on Wednesday and arrive in Singapore around 10.20pm. The captain told passengers that maintenance…
UK records year’s hottest day, 32.7 degrees Celsius in Heathrow. Britain recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Saturday, the country’s national weather service said, with provisional data showing a high of 32.7 degrees Celsius (90.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at Heathrow airport. This year’s previous high was 32.6 C, which was reached on…
Ryanair boss gets pied in the face in Brussels. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary got a rude welcome in Brussels today when he received two cream pies to the face while standing next to a cardboard cutout of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen. The pies were landed by two women environmental activists as Michael O’Leary…
Flight #BA31 from London to Hong Kong suffered a technical issue. Flight #BA31 took off 50 minutes late from London Heathrow at 18:50 BST. About 1h30 later, while the aircraft was still in Austrian Airspace, the crew decided to turn around. Pilots didn’t consider to squawk 7700 for a general emergency. The aircraft (reg. G-XWBF)…
Additional temporary security measures have been put in place by UK Border Force. Travellers have taken to social media to express their frustration at missed flights as a result long delays in passing through security gates at the airport. Reports suggest that a tannoy announcement is currently advising travellers that the delays are down to…
Ryanair carries over 18M guests in one month for the first time ever. Europe’s largest airline, Ryanair, ended its busy summer season with a record-breaking August, carrying an impressive 18.9 million passengers during the month. It operated 103,000 flights with a 96% load factor. The low-cost airline, which last year ranked in the top 3…
A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.” The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a transatlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the…
Security breach at Mexico City International Airport. In an Incident at the Mexico City International Airport, a man jumped the perimeter fence of the airport on 03 Sept 2023. The man ran to the bottom of a Volaris A320 aircraft. The aircraft was operating flight #VOI876 to Tijuana (TIJ). He entered inside the main landing…
Zurich Airport celebrated its 75th anniversary with a big airport festival from September 1st to 3rd. Around 140,000 visitors flocked to the airport for a varied program covering aviation. Around 40 exhibitors presented vehicles, products, services and professional environments at Zurich Airport and provided insights behind the scenes of airport operations. The aviation exhibition with…
A man was arrested for claiming to be an Air India pilot. The man, wearing a pilot’s uniform, told boarding staff that he was an Air India pilot. The flight staff became suspicious and informed the airport security officials. When he failed to answer during the interrogations, he was arrested. During interrogations it was revealed…