The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading Widebody family, has successfully completed its Functional & Reliability testing, bringing the aircraft a step closer to Type Certification in November 2017. The first customer delivery to Qatar Airways will follow in the coming weeks. The Functional and Reliability Testing took the flight test aircraft, MSN065, across…
Emirates Airline (Emirates) Chairman and Chief Executive Sheikh Al-Maktoum said at today’s delivery ceremony of the airlines 100th A380, “We hope we will be able to order new A380s next week at Dubai Air Show. The details are being worked out.” “The A380 has been a success for Emirates,” Sheik Al-Maktoum said. “We use the aircraft for…
The only father-daughter team on the British Airways’s Boeing 777 flew together for the final time yesterday. David Woodruffe’s final flight with his daughter Kat, 35, landed at London Heathrow airport after completing his retirement flight from New York. After joining the airline in 1984, Woodruffe held the role of captain. He said he felt…
Emirates, the world’s largest A380 operator, is set to receive its milestone 100th A380 aircraft on 3rd November. Over 80 million passengers have flown on the superjumbo in the nine years since it first joined Emirates’ modern fleet. Today, Emirates flies the A380 to over 45 destinations spanning Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East,…
Singapore Airlines on Thursday unveiled new seats for its Airbus A380, its first major cabin overhaul in a decade. The highlight, however, was the new first class: six suites, down from 12, which were redesigned to feature beds that sit perpendicular to the windows and a wall that can come down to join, should you…
Germany’s second largest airline ‘Air Berlin’ has ended flight operations on October 27th. What will become of aircraft, routes and employees now? This Article will inform you about everything there is to know. Well, first of all, the Air Berlin brand is not entirely gone yet. Its Austria-registered subsidiary airline Niki is still operating flights…
Eurowings Europe employees are warning about joining the airline due to low wages and bad working conditions ‘below Ryanair level’. An open letter by Eurowings employees said: “Lufthansa used to stand for reliability, fairness, social responsibility and justice, but this has changed with the foundation of Eurowings Europe”. They say most people working for Eurowings Europe…
A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board an easyJet plane despite having no ticket. The girl gave her parents the slip near Geneva’s central railway station on Sunday (Oct29), then took the one-stop ride to the airport. Her parents rang the Swiss police,…
A man and a woman were busted Sunday on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Detroit. Officials said the two were total strangers before boarding the plane. A woman was arrested on the airplane for performing oral sex on a man while they were in their seats. The 48-year-old woman was heading to Nashville,…
Armed police arrested a man waiting to board an Emirates flight to Dubai at Manchester Airport. The man had already passed through security and was in a lounge when officers swooped. A spokesperson said: “Shortly before 12.15pm today (Sunday, October 29 2017) police received a report of concern for the welfare of a man in…
An USB stick security files was found by a man and handed to the Sunday Mirror. The Sunday Mirror was contacted by an unemployed man who found the stick while on his way to the library to search the internet for work. He spotted the memory stick among leaves on the pavement in Ilbert Street,…
Air Berlin’s subsidiary airline ‘Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter’ (LGW) will operate Bombardier Dash flights under Eurowings’ flight numbers to European destinations (including London Heathrow and Paris CDG) LGW used to operate flights for its insolvent parent company Air Berlin, but Air Berlin has ended operations under its own callsign on October 27th. The regional carrier LGW has…