Ohio-based aviation holding company Air Transport Services Group has confirmed it has a deal with Amazon and will wet-lease twenty B767 freighters for use in its US distribution network. The aircraft will operate for Amazon Fulfillment Services, Inc., on five year contracts with the leases to last between five and seven years. Until now, Amazon had…
Now that's a view of the #Eclipse2016 from flight #870. Photo: Anchorage flight attendants Rachael C. & Sofia S. pic.twitter.com/Sa6qOUysRu — Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) March 9, 2016
A passenger found out that a woman was hiding a baby in her hand luggage on board Air France flight. A passenger of flight Air France #AF1891 from Istanbul to Paris CDG was shocked after finding out a woman was carrying a baby son in her hand luggage Monday night, Planet.fr reports. The bag belonged to…
A survey of 718 British air stewards aged 18 and over who are currently in the job or have been in the past five years found that 89 per cent said they had broken airline rules during a flight. When they were asked what rules they had broken, 21% said they had “indulged in sexual relations…
A 27-year-old man has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in the bathroom of an airplane on a domestic flight, officials said. A 27 year old MBA student from Tempe, Arizona, was arrested Monday after his Delta flight touched down at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC). Salt Lake County Sheriff’s office said…
Thomas Cook has cancelled all departures to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh until at least October 31st. The tour operator had previously said the security situation in the Red Sea resort would see all holidays cancelled or postponed until May 25th. However, with no change to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office advice with…
If the hunt for MH370 doesn’t turn up anything over the next few months, the head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the search of a 46,000-square-mile swath of the Indian Ocean will likely be called off by July, NBC News reports. Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan says the Malaysian, Chinese, and Australian governments, who…
easyJet has today announced it will launch a new route to Dubrovnik from London Luton Airport. On sale today it will operate twice a week throughout the summer with the first flights commencing on May 24th, 2016. The route is expected to be popular amongst leisure passengers searching for summer sun and easyJet is expected…
In a new lavatory prototype, the plane manufacturer automatically sanitizes lavatories after each use by employing ultraviolet light to kill 99.99 percent of germs, and disinfecting all surfaces in a mere three seconds. According to Boeing, the cleaning system would lift and close the toilet seat by itself so that all surfaces are exposed during…
Investigations are being carried out after an engine failure caused a plane crash in Mareebe on Saturday. Emergency services were called to the Chettle Rd scene in early afternoon, where a pilot crash landed his light aircraft. The aircraft is believed to be a Piper Aircraft registered VH-BIQ owned by ROBERTSON, Kaye Lenita according to…
38 year old man held by police tonight after major security alert at Heathrow. Arrest comes as intruder breaks through Heathrow security, climbed aboard BA 747 and then locks himself in the cockpit. Police called at 11:30 on Saturday and told that a person had breached security on Heathrows Perimeter Road and entered BA’s engineering…
EditA resident on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion who last year found a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on Sunday he had come across a second possible piece from the missing plane. Johnny Begue, who found the “flaperon” part while cleaning a beach last July, told AFP he handed over…