Staff have been ticked off for relieving themselves inside the massive holds of Boeing 747s because they cannot be bothered to trek back to the airport building. Urine is highly corrosive and engineers are said to have discovered several areas of flaking metalwork on the inside of planes — although there is no suggestion any…
A fly-through the departure hall of the future Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport following the Manchester Airport Transformation Programme. SHOW MORE
Five people are feared dead after a small charter plane “came in low and fast” before crashing into the Direct Factory Outlet shopping centre in Melbourne, causing a large explosion and sending plumes of black smoke into the air. It’s understood the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air aircraft was a charter flight headed to King Island off…
Eleven people walked through an unscreened security lane at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday morning and apparently boarded flights to unknown destinations, officials told NBC News. None of them were checked by Transportation Safety Administration personnel, an airport official and senior law enforcement official said. The TSA said in a…
CCTV footage shows the moment the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was brazenly murdered by a woman in front of bystanders in a busy Malaysian Airport. The video begins with Kim Jong Nam arriving at the concourse in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in a light jacket and carrying a backpack. Kim, who…
A man forced his way into a secure area at Honolulu International Airport and died after he was detained, the Hawaii Department of Transportation said. The incident took place at the airport’s commuter terminal Saturday morning. The unidentified man forced his way through the exit lane of the security checkpoint and gained access to an…
Ryanair has launched its biggest-ever Scottish winter schedule, with 13 new Edinburgh routes to Baden, Budapest, Carcassonne, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Katowice, Nantes, Prague, Szczecin, Toulouse, Venice, Valencia and Wroclaw. In addition, two new Glasgow routes will be added, to Krakow and Madrid, bringing the total offered from the airport to 17. The low-cost carrier hopes to…
Last year, Brussels Airport held a survey of the spotters who regularly come to the airport. Around 1,700 spotters responded and indicated what they considered important for a fixed spotters’ place and what this location should ideally look like. Since there are currently no regulated locations for spotters in the municipalities around the airport, Brussels…
During the month, over 1.74 million passengers passed through Stansted, an increase of five per cent over January last year and surpassing the previous record of 1.66 million passengers also set in January 2016. Aircraft load factors also hit a record high for the month of January with an average of 81.4 per cent of…
Harrison Ford had a near miss on Monday when he almost crashed his single-engine Husky plane into a Boeing 737. The actor had been instructed to land on runway 20L at John Wayne Airport, California, NBC News reports. But the 74-year-old mistakenly aimed for a taxiway, just passing over an American Airlines 737 loaded with…
