Qantas has ferried extra fuel from Sydney to Auckland on a Boeing 747-400 as part of efforts to minimise disruption due to fuel shortages at the airport. Airlines have been battling restricted fuel supplies at Auckland Airport since Sunday, after a pipeline which connects a refinery to the Wiri Oil Services facility near the airport was damaged,…
Pilots working for the travel group Thomas Cook will stage a strike on Saturday as part of a dispute over pay. Their trade union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa), confirmed the strike after five days of talks failed to resolve the dispute. A strike on 8 September was the first by pilots at the…
UPDATE Mexico City airport resuming operations from 16:00 local time. UPDATE Mexico City airport has suspended operations until infrastructure is completely inspected. Mexico City airport is being evacuated. Operations stopped at Mexico City Airport after 7.1 earthquake, all flights on hold or diverting.
Auckland Airport has been forced to cancel and restrict services leaving around 2000 airline passengers affected since Monday. The cancelations have been caused by a leak in the 130km fuel pipe to the airport, caused by a digger. It’s believed another 3000 passengers will be affected on 20 September, with another 6000 affected before fuel…
From March 24 2018 customers will be able to fly direct from Heathrow Terminal 5 to the Seychelles, making British Airways the only airline offering a non-stop service from the UK. Scattered across the Indian Ocean and famed as some of the most idyllic islands on the planet, flights will take to the skies twice-a-week…
After dark on September 16, Salt Lake City residents observed a number of strange lights in the sky. Several videos snapped by stunned witnesses show the lights zooming through the night sky. The unusual behavior of the strange light formation prompted speculation they could be shooting stars or even extraterrestrial objects. According to local media…
Ryanair shares fell 3 percent in early Monday trading following its announcement late on Friday of plans to cancel between 40 and 50 flights a day until the end of October. The company says it is trying to deal with a backlog of staff leave which must be allocated before the end of the year.…
A powerful typhoon ripped into southern Japan on Sunday , dumping torrential rain, grounding hundreds of domestic flights and halting train services. Typhoon Talim made a landfall in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 km/h, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. At least 644 domestic flights have been…
Pic: Scott Grayson/Twitter Passengers felt a jolt in their seats and looked from their windows to see a wing of their Aurigny flight GR673 to Guernsey had gone into the side of a catering truck moments after pushing back from Terminal 1 at around 9.50am. None of around 60 passengers or crew on board the…
Ryanair is to cancel 40 to 50 flights every day for the next six weeks, in a bid to improve punctuality of flights. The budget Irish-based airline announced the plan on Friday, saying that it was “unacceptable” that its punctuality had fallen below 80% in the first half of this month. It also said it…
A Virgin Australia flight experienced severe unexpected turbulence 13 September 2017. Flight #VA233, a 737-800 registration VH-VUE, from Melbourne to Adelaide hit the unexpected turbulence during it’s descent into Adelaide. The flight still arrived on time, however 2 flight attendants were taken to hospital with injuries. One of the injured flight attendants received a broken…
