The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that miniature horses are still officially allowed to fly as service animals in all cabins of commercial planes, in a statement aiming to define the guidelines regarding protections for emotional support and psychiatric service cats, dogs and the tiny equines. Last Thursday, the agency released its final statement of enforcement…
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the record breaking London-Sydney flight of QF7441, a record that still stands. The flight was undertaken by the first Qantas 747, registration VH-OJA. Planning for the flight was secretive, had started 2 years previous and involved the cooperation of Boeing and Rolls Royce. The 747 had a range of…
Officials are investigating a man they say allegedly stowed away on a flight from Havana to Miami that landed early Friday. Investigators from U.S Customs and Border Protection say the 26-year-old Cuban man was in the baggage cargo area of the Swift Airlines flight that landed at Miami International Airport just after midnight. A ramp…
After the emergency landing of a passenger plane in a cornfield near Moscow, the two pilots have received top honours for courage and heroism. President Vladimir Putin ordered captain Damir Yusupov and co-pilot Georgy Murzin be given Russia’s highest state award, the Hero of Russia, said the Kremlin on Friday. He granted the Order of…
In an Australian first, Virgin Australia has relaxed it’s rules around baggage allowances for infants. The changes mean that 23kg of checked-in baggage will be included free for children 23 months and under, plus two infant items like baby capsules, prams or cots. An extra 7kg of carry on for essential baby products will also…
Boeing delayed the entry into service of an ultra-long-range version of its forthcoming 777X widebody. The delay in the slower-selling, longer-range 777-8 will hamper Boeing’s ability to provide a plane in line with the schedule for Qantas Airways Ltd’s plan for 21-hour non-stop Sydney-London flights. The Australian airline had hoped for first deliveries of the…
An incident at Shannon Airport involved a Boeing 767-300 aircraft. Emergency services are in attendance. All passengers and crew have disembarked. The Omni Air International jet Boeing 767-300 just was about to depart when the crew had to return to the terminal. Omni Air International is a civilian airline that transports personnel for the…
One man was able to pull off the ultimate family vacation thanks to amassing an incredible amount of airline mileage points — and his entire 33-member family benefitted from it. Sam Pratt was able to take his family, ranging from the ages of two to 72, to Hawaii for free after saving over a million…
Last week @Delta gave me my own private jet…kind of. pic.twitter.com/p14OGLw1jv — vincent peone (@vincentpeone) August 12, 2019 A man got to fly on a “private” jet last week when he turned out to be the only passenger booked on his Delta flight. Vincent Peone, a New York City-based writer and director, was taking a…
Norwegian Air is to axe its six routes from Dublin, Cork and Shannon to the US and Canada from September 15 this year. The airline has said the routes “are no longer commercially viable” and “several thousand customers” will be impacted by the route closures. Norwegian Air began operating routes between Dublin, Cork, Shannon and the…
A Ryanair passenger claimed he was injured by Portuguese police when he was hauled off a flight in Faro after a row with the cabin crew. Rafik Boutiche said he was accused of punching an air hostess, which he denies, and dragged off the London-bound plane before take-off in front of fellow passengers. The 20-year-old…
Boeing’s newest widebody 777X jet conducted a fresh round of taxi tests this week at the Everett factory. The 777X test aircraft underwent a series of ground tests, including several rounds of low speed passes down the runway as teams of Boeing workers verified the operation of integrated airplane systems and software.