NEWS This how will look Manchester Airport after a £1bn expansion
A fly-through the departure hall of the future Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport following the Manchester Airport Transformation Programme. SHOW MORE
BREAKING: Five feared dead after plane crashes into DFO shopping centre in Melbourne
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…
ALERT Security breach allows 11 unchecked passengers on flights at JFK
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…
ALERT Footage emerging of Kim Jong Nam assassinated at Kuala Lumpur airport
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…
NEWS Man dies after breaching security at Honolulu Airport
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…
NEWS Ryanair launches largest ever Scottish winter flight schedule
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…
NEWS Thanks to Brussels Airport to create spotter places!
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…
NEWS London Stansted Airport recording its busiest ever January
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…
ALERT Harrison Ford involved in near miss with American Airlines Boeing 737
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…
ALERT Older brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, killed at Kuala Lumpur airport
Kim Jong Nam, the older brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was attacked at a Kuala Lumpur airport and died on the way to a hospital, a senior Malaysian official said Tuesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the incident’s diplomatic sensitivity, said Kim Jong Nam was attacked with…