Lufthansa Group’s board has approved a €1 billion ($1.18 billion) investment in the “acquisition and leasing” of 61 aircraft for low-cost subsidiary Eurowings, as talks on taking over some of Air Berlin’s assets continue.
There was major chaos this morning after a complete radar failure at Australia’s busiest airport. Air Traffic Controllers had to land planes manually, severely reducing the amount of landings. Manual landings can see 15 movements per hour compared to an average 50 movements per hour when there no radar issues. The fault, now corrected, was…
A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group’s campaign against West German authorities has returned home. The dpa news agency reported that the Boeing 737 arrived Saturday in the German city of Friedrichshafen, where it will be reassembled and displayed at the Dornier…
easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has launched ‘Hands Free’, allowing passengers to check in their hand luggage at the Bag Drop desk, where they will be tagged as priority and looked after through to the arrival airport. For the price of £4 per person, or £10 for a group bundle per flight, easyJet gives passengers a…
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor shared that she has an intense case of fear while traveling in planes. “I’m not afraid of the airplane, I’m afraid of me on the airplane and losing control of myself,” Lawrence said. In fact, Lawrence has even acted on her fear of flying in the past, going so far as…
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…
