Volocopter plans to start urban flight testing of its electric vertical take-off and landing air taxi in Singapore between January and July 2019. According to the German company, its electrically-powered 2X aircraft can fly two people up to 27km (17 miles) on a single charge with a cruise speed of 70km/h (43mph). It has been…
The Perth to London nonstop route is proving a bonanza for Qantas and passengers alike, six months after its launch. Flights are full and reliable with only one major mechanical glitch that threw the schedule out for two days. The fastest crossing to London was 16 hours 23 minutes on July 20, when the flight…
Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) has taken delivery of its newest A350-900 aircraft, which features a unique joint livery that combines the airline’s distinctive plum blossom logo with Airbus’ exclusive A350 XWB carbon fibre pattern. Following this delivery, China Airlines today has 14 A350-900 aircraft in its fleet. The airline operates these aircraft on non-stop long…
The company reported a 7% fall in profits for the first half of the year. It added average fares had dropped 3% over excess capacity in Europe and due to an earlier Easter in the first quarter. Bosses also blamed repeated strikes and staff shortages, which led to a surge in cancellations for higher fare,…
A man from the UK hurled racist epithets and explicit derogatory language at an elderly black woman on a RyanAir flight Friday Oct. 19. UPDATE Man filmed racially abusing woman on Ryanair flight identified, say police: We have worked to identify both parties involved in this incident and passed the information to the Spanish authorities…
London’s Gatwick Airport has unveiled a growth strategy which includes a controversial plan to use an existing taxiway as a permanent second runway. Gatwick was recently overlooked for expansion by a U.K. government decision to back a third runway at rival airport, Heathrow. Campaigners have now accused Gatwick’s New York-based owners of expansion “by the…
Ryanair has released a video it claims is proof that a widely shared photo of crew sleeping on an airport floor was fake. The grainy footage apparently shows some uniformed crew members arranging themselves in sleeping positions in a corner of the room before the photo was taken. The SNPVAC union, which represents Portuguese airline…
Researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute are showing what can happen when a small drone strikes the wing of an aircraft. The team mimicked a collision between a 2.1-pound DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter and a Mooney M20 aircraft. Video shows the drone ripping through the plane’s wing in conditions that simulate a crash…
US first lady Melania Trump’s plane was forced to return to a Washington area military base on Wednesday because of smoke in the cabin. According to TV reporters travelling with Mrs Trump, the flight was in the air for about 10 minutes when smoke filled the cabin, and then Secret Service agents rushed to the…
The largest Cyprus-based airline Cobalt airlines was expected to ground its flights as of midnight on Wednesday. The company failed to reach a deal with a potential European investor. According to Economy Today, the company has only €15 million its accounts, which are expected to be used to pay the employees. In statements on Wednesday…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says the flight crew of Rex flight RXA768 should be commended for their response after the right hand propeller of their Saab 340B sheared off near Sydney Airport on 17 March 2017. The Saab, registration VH-NRX, was flying between the regional town of Albury in the Australian state of…
Istanbul’s new airport will not open fully until the end of this year, a newspaper on Saturday cited the general manager as saying, two months later than an official opening scheduled for the end of this month. The imaginatively-named ‘Istanbul New Airport’ has been under construction since May 2015 and is a four-phase project that…