Eurowings has received its first Airbus A340-300. The German low-cost carrier started testing the commercial capabilities of the A340-300 on regular scheduled short haul flights within Europe on Tuesday. OO-SCW, its first aircraft of this type, is operated by Lufthansa Group affiliate Brussels Airlines. Since being delivered in 2000, it was part of the Lufthansa…
According to BBC, The pilot of a vintage jet which crashed on to a dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow, killing 11 men, is to be charged with manslaughter. The pilot was performing aerobatics when the Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in Sussex on 22 August 2015. Families of those who died…
A man from the Australian state of Queensland was received approval to fly his replica Spitire to work everyday. Patrick English had put in a development application with the Mareeba Shire Council to increase the amount of flights he is able to make from his private airstrip. Previously he was only allowed 52 flights a…
Gun-wielding officers raided the Gulf Air jet shortly after 3pm – nearly eight hours after it took off from Bahrain International Airport. Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest was not terror-related. A spokesman said: “At around 3pm on Tuesday, March 20, Met officers arrested a 29-year-old man on board an inbound flight to Heathrow from Bahrain.…
At 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 21 March, some French air-traffic controllers will stop work in protest against labour reforms. The action will continue until 05:00 UTC on Friday 23 March. All airlines have been told to reduce their operations by 30% in flights to/from Paris CDG, Paris ORY, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon & Nantes.…
Obese passengers and parents with young children have been banned from flying business class on Thai Airways’ new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Thai Airways International (THAI) says the limit on waist sizes for passengers, and ban on carrying infants on laps, in business class on its two Boeing 787-9 aircraft is a consequence of the installation…
A six-seater Piper PA-32 crashed onto a house shortly after take-off on Saturday, 17 March, killing all five on board and five on ground. Two other Filipinos sustained injuries as the plane burst into flames. The plane took off from a small airport north of Manila (ICAO: RPUX) at 11.21 am local time, bound to…
Airbus and Heathrow airport are celebrating the 10th anniversary of A380 operations at the airport. They began on March 18th 2008 with the arrival of the first A380, a Singapore Airlines flight SQ308 from Singapore Changi airport making Heathrow one of the first to welcome Airbus’ iconic double decker. Heathrow is now the world’s busiest A380 airport…
The main sections of the first A380 for Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) have arrived at the Airbus final assembly line in Toulouse via a special convoy, with six subassemblies – the nose, central and aft fuselage sections, the tailplane, and the two wings. ANA Holdings placed a firm order of three A380s in 2016,…
The head of the Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Union has suggested they could support any industrial action that flight attendants at Cathay Dragon may take. Flight attendants at Cathay Dragon are trying to get the airline to reverse it’s skirt only rule. The Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Flight Attendants Association put in a public formal…
A 16 year old passenger got escorted off a Silver Airways flight by police… for taking pictures. The ‘incident’ occurred earlier this month, on March 7th, when the Passenger was about to fly on board the small American regional airline from Fort Myers to Orlando and then taking a connecting flight to New York Newark with…
