Passengers arriving at Adelaide Airport August 11 were left confused after a hastily planned taxi driver strike. Approximately 100 Taxi drivers went on strike protesting over Adelaide Airport’s announcement the previous day that they would allow UberX pick-ups from the airport immediately. Taxi drivers blockaded the ride-sharing area designated for UberX pickups. At one stage Airport…
One passenger raised a ruckus on a Spring Airlines flight to Shanghai earlier this week, threatening to blow up the plane if it was not taken instead to Taipei. The flight was traveling from the South Korean resort island of Jeju to Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Monday night when one male passenger asked the…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have released one man held after the July 29 anti-terrorism raids in Sydney, and have charged Khaled Khayat, 49, of Lakemba and Mahmoud Khayat, 32, of Punchbowl with terrorism related offences. They were denied bail in a brief court hearing on August 4. The AFP Deputy Commissioner, Michael Phelan, said that…
On Monday morning, three passengers tried to get on the Ryanair flight from Gdańsk to Warsaw in Poland by chasing a taxiing airplane on the airport apron. They forced the gate door and entered the apron on their own, but Polish border guard treated them very leniently. Lech Wałęsa Airport in the coastal city of Gdańsk…
Airport ground staff have been caught on video throwing passengers’ suitcases onto a luggage belt in footage which will disturb other travelers – and fired as a result. The workers at Orlando International Airport in Florida were filmed as they raised bags above their heads and sent them crashing onto the conveyer while they unloaded…
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has issued Air Transat a please explain after 2 of it’s European flights to Montreal spent hours on the tarmac with passengers onboard on July 31. The flights were 2 of approximately 20 that were diverted to Ottaw a during a chain of storms affecting Montreal. Flight TS507 from Rome…
A sewage leak at Nashville International Airport may have contaminated about 200 Southwest Airlines passengers’ bags, the airline said in a statement Thursday. Airport officials told ABC News that the source of the problem was a single toilet in a women’s restroom inside the terminal, closely positioned over the baggage handling area. The sewage flowed through the…
The sky over the US has turned into a giant canvas for a pilot at the controls of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Flight data shows that the Boeing 787-8 (reg. N7874) from Seattle early this morning, with the crew carefully flying a path that forms a huge Dreamliner across the United States of America. It…
British Airways cabin crew will strike for two more weeks in a long-running dispute over pay, the Unite union has announced. Members of Unite will walk out again from August 16 until the end of the month, which includes the August bank holiday. The workers were taking their 58th day of strike action today and…
Southwest Florida International Airport has released video of a lightning strike incident involving a NavStar employee on the tarmac in July. Austin Dunn, 21, suffered third-degree burns, muscle damage and bleeding in the brain when lightning struck a plane near him on July 22, 2017 at the Southwest Florida International Airport. While the airport activated its…
Two Air Algeria pilots were suspended for letting a child handle a ATR672, registered 7T-VUT which was to connect Alger to Setif in commercial flight. As part of an initiative taken by an association for the assistance of orphans without support, the crew invited an orphaned child to the cockpit. Sitting on the captain’s…
The event took place at the end of a day of stress for more than 150 passengers. They had been due to travel on flight #U22122 from Nice-Cote d’Azur airport at 11am. The airline says it “was delayed departing Nice due to a technical issue with the aircraft”. The original aircraft had arrived from Luton…