For the second time in the space of two years, the Civil Aviation Authority was secretly putting together its own rescue airline. With non-disclosure agreements signed, and handling firms and airline operations teams sounded out in commercial confidence, CAA officials in the Canary Wharf HQ had laid out a plan for almost 50 planes to…
Delta Air Lines has again expressed its desire to add Boeing’s future mid-sized jetliner to its fleet. The chief executive Ed Bastian said that its company was willing to buy up to 200 jets from the Boeing’s NMA (New Mid-size Airplane) program. With his repeated statements about the Boeing’s future wide-body jet intended for the…
Condor flights will continue its flight operations despite the fact that its parent company Thomas Cook Group has filed for insolvency. Thomas Cook Group plc, the previous parent company, had to file for insolvency on 23 September 2019. Despite intensive efforts, the Group was unable to obtain refinancing from Fosun, banks and creditors. Condor continues…
Airline says numbers must be reduced at bases such as Stansted and Manchester. Ryanair has written to UK pilots asking them to take unpaid leave or transfer to other bases abroad, saying they could otherwise join the 9,000 job losses at Thomas Cook. The airline told its pilots that a “significant surplus of pilots must…
Norwegian today announces that holidaymakers, travel enthusiasts and #avgeeks now have the unique opportunity to travel between the Arctic and Ushuaia, one of the world’s southernmost cities and gateway to Antarctica on Norwegian from £398.50 one way. From 21 September, Norwegian became the only airline to operate flights to and from the world’s northernmost airport…
A plane had to make an emergency landing when one of the passengers claimed he was on cocaine before sparking up a JOINT in the cabin. The unscheduled touchdown happened on an American Airlines jet from Phoenix to Minneapolis after the pilot warned of an urgent ‘security issue’ on board. The mid-air emergency was sparked…
A caring gesture by a Delta flight attendant has gone viral after a teenage passenger’s mother shared it on Twitter. Back in July, Ashley Ober, a 16-year-old from Hagerstown, Maryland, was about to embark on her first flight alone from Baltimore to Rochester. While this may not have been a big deal for most, Ober…
Soon, customers flying from Dubai to any of Emirates’ 12 destinations in the US will be able to choose facial recognition technology at the departure gates, reducing the time taken for identity checks to two seconds or less. No pre-registration is required, and customers may also choose not to use the technology. Emirates does not…
A 65-year-old Lebanese man suspected of involvement in the hijacking of an American airliner in 1985 has been arrested in Greece, police say. The man, who has not been named, was detained on Mykonos after disembarking from a cruise ship on Thursday. UPDATE Greek authorities said early on Tuesday that the arrest of a Lebanese…
The new, third runway of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) welcomed its first regular flight on September 19, making SVO the first major airport in Russia to be equipped with three runways. Runway-3 is located north of the airport’s so-called new Northern Terminal complex (comprising of Terminal B and C1, which is currently under construction), whilst…
Two arriving flights had to be diverted, it said, while media reports said the planes had landed at a smaller airport in the neighbouring emirate of Sharjah. “Dubai Airports can confirm that flight arrivals were briefly disrupted at Dubai International from 12:36 (0836 GMT) to 12:51 (0851 GMT) UAE local time this afternoon due to…
Slovenian carrier Adria Airways has suspended all operations from its three bases in Ljubljana, Prishtina and Tirana for Tuesday and Wednesday due to a shortage of cash. The airline said in a brief statement that all flight operations on Tuesday and Wednesday were canceled. “[The] decision to temporarily cease flight operations is a consequence of…