European plane manufacturer Airbus is looking at possibilities to increase the production rate for its most popular aircraft, the A320, to more than 70 planes per month but is facing serious problems. Demand for the aircraft is still going strong and not only for the new A320neo with advanced engines, the old version is still…
Qantas has agreed to pay a fine of $US62,500 within 1 month, and agreed to pay another $US62,500 if it violates a Department of Transport (DoT) agreement within in 1 year. DoT says Qantas was in violation of cabotage rules. Under the rules foreign airlines are not allowed to carry passengers between US cities. Qantas…
Last week Air China, China Eastern and China Southern have revealed their profits for 2017 and are determined to grow in the next years. For its part, Air China posted a revenue of nearly 20 billion US-Dollar, an increase by 7.7% compared to 2016. Net profits for the Air China Group rose by more than 11%…
Buzzfeed News has published a pictorial news article of what an abandoned airport looks like. The images are of the Nicosia International Airport in the UN Buffer Zone on Cyprus. The airport was originally built as RAF Nicosia in the 1930’s. A passenger terminal was built in 1949 and replaced with a new one in…
Cockpit recordings show two separate airline pilots reported sightings of an unidentified flying object to the Albuquerque Air Traffic Center when flying over southeastern Arizona. On February 24, a Learjet pilot first reported the mysterious object to air traffic control while flying over the desert. “I don’t know what it was,” the pilot says. “It…
Airserves Australia has provided a news article on how a dedicated team of air traffic controllers co-ordinated with Qantas over the inaugural 14,498km (9.009mi) flight of #QF9 from Perth to London for months. The press release details how the controllers were aware the 787 was at it’s maximum take-off weight of 254,000kg (559,974lbs). It was…
Cathay Pacific has come to an agreement with unions to allow female employees to wear trousers. The agreement covers all uniformed staff. Cathay Pacific completes two-leg journey, letting women wear trousers https://t.co/PLhCbNTPpg — Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) March 30, 2018 In a Statement the airline told media, “We are pleased that we have reached an understanding…
Boeing was hit Wednesday by the WannaCry computer virus. Mike VanderWel, chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out an alarming alert about the virus : “It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down,” VanderWel wrote, adding his…
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is reporting on a speech Qantas CEO Alan Joyce made under Chatham House Rules to the Australian-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce in London on Tuesday. Fairfax, the publisher of SMH and The Age, did not attend the event but received a leaked tape recording. The speech suggested that under Qantas’…
The Sun published videos of a captain and co-pilot of an easyJet flight from Paris to Madrid playing on Snapchat. EasyJet is investigating the videos posted on social media. However these videos were made during cruising part of the flight with autopilot on.
Preliminary investigations into the death of a cabin crew member who fell from a Boeing 777 at Entebbe International Airport recently indicates that she committed suicide. Elena Vassileva, 46, a Bulgarian National, was part of the Emirates crew as flight #EK730 was preparing to fly to Dubai from Entebbe. She fell from the emergency exit…
Arrivals unavailable till 20.00 UTC (21.00 LT) due to ATC equipment issues (Flight data processing issues). UPDATE 18:52 UTC It looks the ATC problem has been solved earlier than expected, landings are resuming. High delays expected. Live tracking