The low-cost carrier has said non-priority passengers will no longer be permitted to take a small suitcase on its planes for free. Charges for a ten-kilogram case will be introduced in November. The earlier has seen passengers allowed to hand in their smaller cases for loading in the hold for free at the boarding gate.…
First responders are on scene at Anoka County-Blaine Airport after a plane crash, according to Philip Tiedeman, a manager at the airport. No other details are available at this time.
British Airways says it will end its direct flights to Iran’s capital in September as “the operation is currently not commercially viable.” The decision announced Thursday comes after President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and began restoring U.S. sanctions. British Airways says its last flight to Tehran will…
A retiring pilot has gone viral online after breaking down in tears during a farewell speech on his last ever flight. Captain Rizalino ‘Totoy’ Irizani piloted his last Cebu Pacific flight from Davao to Cebu City in the Philippines on August 18. But before taking off, he came out of the Airbus A320 cockpit…
United Airlines plans to start charging passengers to reserve select seats near the front of the plane, a practice already in place at rivals American and Delta. United said it will implement the change later this year but did not provide specifics beyond that, including pricing. The seats for sale will be just behind its Economy…
Europe’s largest discount airline says “a tiny number” of checks were issued without a signature because of an administrative error. Ryanair says new checks have been sent to customers along with a letter of explanation. Ryanair says the problem involved 190 compensation checks out of some 20,000 issued in July. The company says “we apologize…
Finnair confirmed that a pilot who reported for work intoxicated on Wednesday at Helsinki Airport was one of its employees. According to MTV news, which first reported the story, the pilot had a blood alcohol concentration level of 1.5 on alcohol test. However the airplane was not ready for departure and the captain was not…
A 42-year-old truck driver was kidnapped with his truck and cargo of electronic equipment with a value of more than 5 million euros. A man with a weapon waited for the driver as he drove away from the cargo area of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport where he had loaded his truck. The man forced the driver…
A baby was taken to hospital after being found by a cleaner in a women’s toilet at Hong Kong International Airport. The airport received a report at 11.30am that one of its cleaners had found a “newborn baby inside a female toilet” near Gate 60 of the airport’s arrivals level, a spokesperson for the Airport Authority Hong…
An easyJet passenger who was an injured retired doctor was forced off a plane by armed police officers when flying to London over a disagreement regarding a booked seat with extra legroom. EasyJet passenger Sam Ramsay Smith, 72, was removed from the flight by armed police officers. He travelled to Amsterdam from London Gatwick to…
Tanami was travelling 700 miles from Duisburg Zoo in Dusseldorf, Germany to Scotland to join Edinburgh Zoo. The koala, a 19-month-old Queensland koala, is named Tanami. He was flying with low-cost airline Eurowings and managed to nab an entire row of seats to himself. He was even treated to a big bag of eucalyptus so he could…
Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the primary airports serving the Washington DC area, registered a power outage beginning at approximately 9:45 pm ET, forcing the airport to put at least some flight takeoffs on hold, and divert others, with many computer systems down. The airport said via Twitter that flights were operating, albeit slowly…