Rory McIlroy has launched Turkish Airlines’ #CheckInToGolf campaign, encouraging golf fans across the world to share their golf experiences for a chance to win some fantastic golf travel prizes, including an opportunity to meet McIlroy at the Turkish Airlines Open 2015. Golf fans can #CheckInToGolf using the hashtag on Twitter and Instagram by posting an…
A single-seat raceplane is built for flying fast and screaming through pylons just above the ground. A Boeing 747 is there to cruise amongst the clouds taking hundreds of people wherever they need to go. The Red Bull Air Race’s most successful pilot, Paul Bonhomme flies both with precision and skill. Here he explains the…
Air France executives were greeted by an angry mob of employees after Air France/KLM announced a restructuring plan that would cut 2,900 jobs. Air France announced retiring old planes, cancelling 787 orders, ending service and reducing frequencies, which would result in numerous losses of ground operations staff, cockpit crew and flight attendants. The company and…
Air France will negotiate with Boeing and leasing company AerCap to cancel the delivery of five 787 passenger jets, Chief Executive Frederic Gagey said on Monday as he unveiled new cost-cutting measures for the troubled airline. The five Boeing planes had been due for delivery in 2016 and 2017, Gagey said during a news conference,…
Two Air France managers have been chased from a meeting with employees following a disagreement over job cuts. Human resources manager Xavier Broseta and senior official Pierre Plissonnier has their shirts torn from them as they clambered over a fence to escape irate workers. Details
The United States and its NATO allies denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish air space along the frontier with Syria, and Ankara threatened to respond if provoked again, raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the Cold War enemies. NATO held an emergency meeting of ambassadors of its 28 member states to respond to…
An air hostess reportedly earned around £650,000 over a two year period by having sex with plane passengers in the toilet. The scale of the woman’s ‘business’ only came to light when she was caught in the lavatory recently, and she was subsequently sacked. It is reported that she was working for an airline in…
Flight attendant Taylor Tippett has discovered a way to make a passenger’s flight just a bit more comfortable: a simple, handwritten note. For nearly a year, the Washington D.C.-based attendant for American Airlines has been taping slips of paper marked with words of encouragement to the windows of airplanes. She shares an image of each…
An American Airlines flight was diverted to Syracuse in New York this morning after the pilot became ill and died, the airline says in a statement. Flight 550, which was flying from Phoenix to Boston, was carrying 147 passengers and 5 crew members. The flight AA550 landed safely when the co-pilot took the control of…
Thomas Klühr is to succeed Harry Hohmeister as chief executive of SWISS in February 2016, as part of a broader realignment of the Lufthansa Group. The new group organisation is designed to provide a more functional alignment and thrust, along with flatter hierarchies. Hohmeister, who is already a member of the Lufthansa Group Executive Board,…