A journalist has lashed out on the IndiGo airline for alleged mistreatment of her, while travelling on one of its domestic flights. Rishika Baruah, a journalist working with NDTV has written a blog, sharing her ordeal while travelling with her child, an infant on a Goa-Delhi flight. She alleges that three male cabin crew members…
The trade union ver.di has called for a one day strike at several German airports. This massively affects the Frankfurt Airport on Monday, March 27th and the Munich Airport on Sunday, March 26th and Monday, March 27th. For Monday, March 27, the trade union ver.di has called for a one-day strike at several German airports…
Two people have been hospitalized after a crash landing at Falcon Field Airport on Friday, Mesa fire officials said. First responders were initially called to the airport around 1 p.m. for reports of two planes colliding mid-flight. By the time authorities arrived, one aircraft had landed safely while the other, an Air Force Warbird, had…
The DGAC has been warning airlines that the kerosene reserves at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports are “under tension”. The supply of kerosene to Ile-de-France and its airports from Normandy “is becoming critical” due to strikes in refineries, the Ministry of Energy Transition told AFP on Thursday, which is ready to make requisition strikers . Given…
U.S. airlines have had to travel long distances to and from Asia because of the war in Ukraine, giving foreign rivals flying the same route an advantage. Unable to fly through Russian airspace because of the war in Ukraine, U.S. airlines are stepping up a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill and at the White House…
Lufthansa has announced that it will resume its regular flight operations with the Airbus A380, after a three-year hiatus starting on June 1. The first two routes to be operated by the A380 are services from Munich to both Boston and New York. Starting June 1, Lufthansa will operate a daily flight between Munich and…
Protests and strikes spread across France over pensions reform. The access to airport terminal 1 is blocked by protesters at Paris Roissy CDG Airport. Protests intensified in France since Tuesday after the government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote. Over several nights of sporadic demonstrations there have been more than 1,500 protests in cities including Marseille,…
The Wall Street Journal brings us the report of Boeing’s baffling mental gymnastics in attempting to avoid culpability in the two 737 Max crashes that killed a total of 346 people. WSJ reports, in a recent court filing Boeing attorneys “cited an expert who said that the 737 MAX victims died painlessly because the airplane crashed…
A New York mother claims her son died after he went into cardiac arrest on an American Airlines flight to Florida and the defibrillator on board was not charged. According to a recent filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, Melissa Arzu and his son Kevin Greenidge traveled from San Pedro Sula,…
Vigo airport was forced to halt flight operations this Monday due to a new hole in the runway. The pothole was detected on Monday afternoon and activity on the runway was suspended around 7:00 p.m. Aena reported via Twitter that the repair work has already begun . The first estimates suggest that the terminal could…
A video showing screws coming loose on a plane that was in mid-air has been doing the rounds on social media. In the video, you see one passenger point their camera out the window and zoom in on the left wing of the plane which has three screw shaking free. The flight is performed by…
Virgin Orbit has paused all its operations amid reports the company is furloughing almost all of its staff amid an attempt to find a funding lifeline. The satellite launch company confirmed last Thursday it was putting all work on hold, but it didn’t specify for how long. “Virgin Orbit is initiating a company-wide operational pause,…