A video showing an Emirates flight attendant of flight from Dubai to Barcelona pouring a glass of champagne back into the bottle has caused a stir after it was posted online. The footage was recorded by Russian passenger Yevgeny Kaymov who unknowingly filmed the incident on a business class flight to Dubai. He posted the video to…
A New Zealand tourist died on Wednesday afternoon after hitting her head on a concrete block behind the Princess Juliana International Airport SXM fence on the Maho Beach side. Tourists gather on a daily basis to experience jet blasts from aircrafts taking off from the runway. Reports suggest that the woman was holding onto the…
Heathrow reinforced its bid for expansion as new figures showed that the hub handled a record 77 million passengers in the year to June. Heathrow welcomed a record 6.76 million passengers in June, up 2.3 per cent from June 2016, and boosting the number of passengers travelling through the UK’s hub in the past 12…
A passenger claims American Airline staff saw a man masturbating beside her when she slept and failed to wake her up and moved her to safety. Chloe King was on a flight to Paris when the man in the seat next to her started touching himself inappropriately as she slept. Another woman in the row…
A flight from Austin to Chicago ended abruptly Tuesday and returned to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport after two people reportedly got into a fight in mid-air. Southwest Airlines turned the flight around and landed safely at ABIA shortly before 5 p.m. Passenger Lisa Berkman, aboard Southwest Flight #WN3590, said the pilot told them one passenger reached…
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has canceled flights to Ukraine it had planned to start in October. According to a Ryanair statement July 10, the decision was made “following Kiev airport’s failure to honor a growth agreement reached at the Ministry of Infrastructure with airport officials and the current airport director general, Pavlo Riabikin, in March of this year.”…
Canadian leisure carrier Air Transat is to take 10 Airbus A321neo LRs on 12-year lease from Dublin-based lessor AerCap, making it the North American launch operator for the LR variant. The aircraft will be delivered between spring 2019 and fall 2020, replacing Air Transat’s Airbus A310s, which will be gradually retired from the fleet. “The…
Seven hundred workers, including baggage handlers, cleaners and customer service agents at three New York-area airports are going on strike. The airport workers at Newark Liberty International Airport walked off the job at 9 p.m. Tuesday in a labor dispute with their employer, PrimeFlight, a subcontractor for several airlines. The workers are alleging unfair labor…
One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists have said. Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has…
easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has today announced that it will start flying from Southampton Airport for the first time with the launch of a new winter only service to Geneva and will launch eight other new routes from across the UK later this year. The new routes are: Bristol to Stockholm – commences 31 October,…
An evacuation at a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Leesburg, Va. delayed hundreds of flights around the region Monday night, authorities said. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said there were ground stops at all three major airports in the region, meaning inbound flights didn’t take off from their origins for hours. Loudoun…
The vintage fighter plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in a field near Duxford Imperial War Museum was an American Mustang owned by the museum. Officials at the museum have confirmed that one of the planes was forced to make an emergency landing. One witness reported that the plane, the P51d Mustang…