In a video posted to the Passenger Shaming Instagram account, one passenger revealed how a parent sat by and let her child vandalise the plane they were on. The footage starts with shots of the tray tables in a row, which were covered with different coloured scribbles. Then it panned from the aisle to the…
A majority stake in Gatwick Airport is to be sold to French operator Vinci Airports for £2.9bn. Vinci Airports, part of infrastructure group Vinci, will buy 50.01% of the UK’s second-busiest airport. The other 49.99% will be managed by current owners Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). It follows Vinci’s takeover of Airports Worldwide’s portfolio earlier this…
Sussex Police Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley has told officers recovered a “damaged drone” close to Gatwick Airport on Saturday. The drone is being forensically examined.
The couple arrested in connection with the drone attack at Gatwick airport have been released without charge. Paul Gait, 47, and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained on Friday night on suspicion of flying a drone above Britain’s second busiest airport. The couple were held for questioning for almost 36 hours, but sources told…
The United Kingdom’s flag carrier, British Airways, will resume direct flights to Pakistan in June, a decade after suspending services to the South Asian nation over security concerns, the airline has announced. The service will resume with three flights each week between the two countries’ capitals, London and Islamabad, British Airways head of sales for…
An experimental plane crashed on the runway at Willow Run Airport. The plane is registered to a man who runs Detroit Flying Cars. A spokesperson said that the owner of an experimental aircraft was conducting a test run at Willow Run about 1:15 p.m. During the test, the aircraft unexpectedly went airborne and then crashed.…
Turkish news agency reports that date for moving operations from Atatürk Airport to new Istanbul Airport has been postponed for a second time, now from 31 December 2018 to March 2019. A meeting took place today at 15.00 at Istanbul Airport with the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. After 2. hours, decision was took to postpone…
Aer Lingus launched the latest pilot recruitment drive, with over 100 direct entry pilot positions available. Positions are open to qualified pilots, who, if successful, will fly aircraft, such as the Airbus A320/321 and A330, to over 80 destinations worldwide. The pilot recruitment drive comes as Aer Lingus announced our ambitious growth strategy that will…
Two individuals, one of whom was listed as potentially dangerous in Germany, were seen taking pictures at Paris CDG airport. Border Police (PAF) deployed at Paris CDGy airport spotted Thursday “strange behavior” of two people, including one person on a German terror watchlist for radical Islam. According to the JDD, a man in a Mercedes Sprinter van parked…
Boeing delivered the 787th 787 Dreamliner to come off the production line, marking a special milestone for the super-efficient airplane family and the fastest-selling twin-aisle jet in history. Since its first delivery in September, 2011, the 787 family has flown nearly 300 million passengers on more than 1.5 million flights around the world, including more…
The first A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) has rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg, Germany, bearing the airline’s distinctive and unique Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle livery. ANA has firm orders for three A380s, becoming the first customer for the superjumbo in Japan. The airline will take delivery of the first A380…
Sixteen passengers were hauled off a Norwegian Air flight before it departed for Orlando International. Police booted 16 passengers off a Norwegian Air flight departing from London Gatwick to Orlando before the aircraft departed. A spokesman for the budget airline said the passengers were escorted off the plane “due to an immigration issue”. The flight…