Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) plans to deploy Airbus A350-900s on the twice-daily Kuala Lumpur-London route currently operated by Airbus A380s starting in the fourth quarter of 2017. According to a senior MAB official, the airline has experienced extreme difficulty filling the A380s, even in economy class.
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will commence daily A380 services between Abu Dhabi and Melbourne on June 1st, 2016. The flagship superjumbo will operate flights EY460/461, one of the airline’s twice daily Abu Dhabi-Melbourne services. It will replace one of the three-class Boeing 777-300ER aircraft currently deployed on the route.…
Norwegian Airlines announced that it finalized an order with Boeing for 19 787-9 Dreamliners. The order, which includes options for 10 additional 787-9s, is valued at over $5 billion at list prices. DSC_0277The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner is the second member of the Dreamliner family to be produced. Similar to the 787-8, the lengthened variant of…
MH4 & MH1 service is to not operate on: Wednesday 4th November Thursday 12th November Tuesday 17th November Tuesday 24th November
Qatar Airways in March is to begin service to Birmingham from Doha on a 787. The new flight is to operate daily – except there is two flights on Saturday! Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday QR35 departs Doha at 0125 and arrives to Birmingham at 0645 QR36 departs Birmingham at 0915 and arrives to Doha…
A man returning from a meeting about disabled accessibility policies arrived home with a very personal example of the problem. D’Arcee Neal, who has cerebral palsy, took a five-hour flight from San Francisco to Washington last week. A mix-up at the gate meant there was no wheelchair to help the 29-year-old off the plane, so…
A woman deported to her homeland Taiwan after giving birth on a flight to the U.S. in an apparent attempt to give her baby American citizenship may have to pay hefty compensation for forcing the plane to divert. The China Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Alaska en route from Taipei…
Warren Mann The main gear of a Comair (a British Airways franchisee) collapsed at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Monday. The pilot made an announcement, informing passengers that the “left landing gear had broken off” after the emergency landing took place. “This caused the plane to hit the runway at an angle. We…
Edinburgh Airport has warned of severe delays to all flights this morning after a technical issue has affected Scottish air traffic control. Flights from/to Glasgow and Aberdeen are also affected from the fault which is believed to have risen overnight at the main control centre in Prestwick. Edinburgh Airport says there currently has been no…
Russian spies likely tried to hack into the Dutch Safety Board’s computer systems to access a sensitive final report into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, experts said Friday. The cyberattacks were revealed by security experts Trend Micro which blamed a shadowy group dubbed Operation Pawn Storm, “an active economic and political cyber-espionage…
Hainan Airlines will launch a Beijing-Manchester route in June of 2016, the first nonstop service between the two cities. HNA Group Chairman Chen Feng said: “As a company born in China and now actively expanding into international markets, Hainan Airlines is doing its bit to assure the success of the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative…