According to US Defense officials, Ukraine Air Force has shot down two Il-76MD heavy transport airplanes of #Russia Air Force. A second Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane was shot down near Bila Tserkva, 50 miles (85 kilometers) south of Kyiv, according to two American officials with direct knowledge of conditions on the ground in…
A residential apartment building not far from the Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport was struck by Russian missile attacks. Missile strikes an apartment building in Kyiv. After heavy fighting in the capital overnight, a residential apartment building not far from the Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport was struck by Russian missile attacks on Feb. 26, 2022. There…
Passengers have reported having problems at Heathrow Airport tonight as British Airways suffers a big outage, causing the website to fail and flights to be grounded. British Airways has suffered another major outage this evening with passengers claiming their flights have been grounded at Heathrow. The company’s website has been completely inaccessible tonight, but they…
Please reload for updates… France plans to send four Mirage 2000-5 warplanes to Estonia to boost NATO’s forces in the region. UK also bans private Russian planes from flying in its airspace or landing at its airports. The Antonov Company just said no accurate information for today regarding the An-255’s fate as fighting continues at…
Ukraine International Airlines published a statement following the closure of Ukraine’s airspace. Ukraine International Airlines announces the suspension of scheduled and charter flights to and from Ukraine due to the closure of Ukrainian airspace for civilian airspace users until 23:59 on February 24, 2022, Kyiv time. UIA maintains and will maintain liaison with the Ministry…
On Sunday, huge balloons fell on top of a GOL Boeing 737 and a supply truck at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo. Operations were temporarily suspended at the site while the balloons were secured—one of the balloon parts tangled up in the wing of a GOL Boeing 737. As seen in videos shared on…
Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, to collaborate on a hydrogen demonstration programme that will take flight around the middle of this decade. The programme’s objective is to ground and flight test a direct combustion engine fueled by hydrogen, in preparation for…
airBaltic has temporarily suspend overnight flights to and from Ukraine. As the geopolitical situation in the country deteriorates, the decision will remain in place until at least the end of February. As a result of the suspension, the airline has cancelled five overnight rotations between Kyiv and Riga as well as two rotations between Odessa…
CCTV camera video released by Florida authorities this week shows the confrontations that an intoxicated New Jersey woman on a motorized suitcase got into with police and airline employees before she was arrested at the Orlando International Airport last year. The incident happened in April 2021 when the woman, identified by police as 32-year-old Chelsea…
Air France cancels at least next flight to Kyiv. Air France has decided to cancel its Tuesday flights between Paris and Kyiv, the French airline said, as a “precautionary measure” on the back of rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. “In view of the local situation and as a precautionary measure, flights AF1752 and AF1753…
While we can’t say the pandemic is technically over, there are some signs that life is returning back to “pre-pandemic” levels. On Friday afternoon, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport released its 2021 traffic report which showed a massive increase in travelers heading in and out of the “World’s Busiest Airport”. The report said that over 75 million…
Scandinavian airline SAS has cancelled Tuesday’s Oslo-Kyiv flight, its weekly flight to Ukraine, a company spokesman said on Sunday, citing the Ukraine crisis. SAS will also avoid Ukraine airspace until Feb. 27 and will make a decision on it’s March 1 flight at a later date, he added.