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…
Lufthansa Group has presented its best ever financial results on Thursday. The airline’s adjusted EBIT profit jumped around 70 percent to almost 3 billion Euro. Total Lufthansa Group revenues in 2017 amounted to 35.6 billion Euro, an around 12 percent increase on 2016. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says: “Our endeavors of the past few years…
The GE9X engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation’s 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing’s new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew for more than four hours on its first flight. During…
Air New Zealand is known for it’s unique and funny Air Safety Videos. It has come under fire for it’s latest video. The video is set in Antarctica and features actor and environmentalist Adrian Grenier. Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica’s Mt Erebus in 1979. All 237 passengers and 20 crew on board…
Ryanair has announced its first flights to Turkey with two new routes. The airline said it will operate two new routes weekly from Dublin and Bratislava to the southwestern Turkish resort of Dalaman from June. Both routes will operate once a week from June, as part of the airline’s summer 2018 schedule, and go on sale…
Virgin Atlantic has announced a second daily service between Heathrow and Johannesburg for winter 2018. The new flight will add an additional 180,000 seats on the route on board a new Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Virgin Atlantic’s new service will begin flying in winter 2018 with the first flight departing on October 28th. The additional daily…