Boeing confirmed it has moved the target for first flight of the 777X to early next year following consultations with General Electric The new GE9X engines continues to suffer delays while the engine company redesigns a stator in the front part of the compressor that had shown more wear than anticipated during testing. Earlier this…
A woman was handcuffed and restrained for six hours on a flight from Miami to London after attacking an eight-year-old boy and lashing out at others. The woman, 51, threw a full bottle of water that hit the boy on the side of the head with ‘some force’ on the Virgin Atlantic flight. Just 20…
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg warned investors that the company might need to temporarily halt the 737MAX production. Boeing hopes to get approval for the plane to fly again sometime early in the fourth quarter. Dennis Muilenburg said any further delays in approval to resume 737MAX flights could force a temporary shutdown of 737MAX production. Boeing…
Planes at Schiphol cannot be refuelled right now. Aircraft Fuel Supply, a third-party company that controls aircraft fuel supply, currently has a fault in their system. As a result, flights may be delayed or cancelled by your airline. Schiphol and Aircraft Fuel Supply are working hard to find a solution. Reduction in landing rate is…
An American Airlines flight attendant was bitten by an emotional support dog on a flight from Dallas to North Carolina Monday. The incident occurred on American flight #AA3506 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Greensboro, North Carolina, an American Eagle flight operated by Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American. The plane was an Embraer 175, a regional…
United Airlines Holdings said on Friday the Boeing 737 MAX would stay off its flight schedule until Nov. 3, a fresh extension leading to about 2,100 cancellations in September and 2,900 in October as the jets remain grounded worldwide. The decision had been expected after Boeing said on June 27 it would likely take until…
Pilots at British Airways have voted strongly in favour of a strike in a dispute over pay. Some 93 per cent of those staff represented by the British Airline Pilots’ Association voted for industrial action, on a 90 per cent turnout. UPDATE British Airways has lost a High Court bid for a temporary injunction to…
A British woman has been asked to pay $106,000 after she was so disruptive during a flight to Turkey that the U.K. had to scramble fighter jets to accompany her plane back to the airport, the airline says. Chloe Haines, 25, was “aggressive, abusive and dangerous” during the June 22 Jet2 flight from London Stansted…
A 65-year old Serbian man confessed in court on Saturday to calling in a false bomb threat to stop a Lufthansa flight attendant from leaving the country because he hoped she would go on a date with him. One hundred thirty passengers and five crew members were evacuated from flight #LH1411 on Thursday before its…
The Germany-based carrier has followed British Airway in temporarily flight suspension to the Egyptian capital as a “precaution” for security reasons, according to the company’s statement. UPDATE Deutsche Lufthansa says it has canceled flights from Frankfurt and Munich to Cairo on Saturday and will resume flights on Sunday. Lufthansa has said in a statement that…
British Airways suspended flights to Cairo for seven days starting Saturday as a precaution to allow for an assessment of security there, the airline said in a statement. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow…
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an airworthiness directive for the Airbus A321neo after the aircraft was found in certain cases to pitch its nose upwards excessively. The regulator stated that “excessive pitch attitude could occur in certain conditions and during specific maneuvers in the final approach to landing”, warning that the condition…