Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker has admitted that the purchase of Airbus A380 superjumbos was perhaps the biggest mistake the airline has made. The Group CEO stated that the A380s don’t have a “long-term future” and he suggested the jumbos would be grounded as soon as new aircraft get delivered. “Due to the grounding…
The regional forestry authority of Mugla province said the blaze, fanned by strong winds and temperatures close to 40 degrees Celsius, had threatened a hotel and settlement areas in the small seaside town of Icmeler near Marmaris. The Turkish coast guard had secured the bay and suspended water traffic in the area where firefighting planes…
Guinness World Records recognised an 86-year-old American woman as the longest-serving and oldest flight attendant in the world. Bette Nash has been a flight attendant with American Airlines for the longest time. She has been working with the air carrier for 65 years, which qualifies as a Guinness World Record, the record-keeping organisation said. Nash…
Jonas Vingegaard made a triumphant return to Denmark on Wednesday following his victory at the Tour de France. As he crossed into Danish airspace, two Danish Air Force fighter jets escorted Vingegaard’s private plane on its journey to Copenhagen. Moments after touching down on Danish soil, he would be driven in an Audi Cabriolet from…
JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced it would purchase Spirit Airlines, a combination that would create America’s fifth-largest airline. The announcement comes a day after Spirit pulled the plug on a deal to merge with Frontier. JetBlue had been pursuing a hostile bid for Spirit even while Spirit sought shareholder approval for a lower-priced deal with…
The boss of Frankfurt Airport in Germany has blamed the chaos at airports on black suitcases, the Guardian reported on Friday, citing German media. Stefan Schulte, the head of Frankfurt Airport, advised passengers to hand carry their belongings when possible and to use suitcases that are easy to spot. Black suitcases are so common, it’s…
An elderly wheelchair user was almost hospitalized after she was stranded for more than 14 hours at the Orlando airport earlier this month. Patty Bough, 85, told Orlando’s Fox 35 that Frontier Airlines employees failed to wheel her to her gate, after her granddaughter, who did not have a boarding pass, was denied entry at…
A snake head was discovered in the food given to one of the flight crew members on a SunExpress flight from Ankara to Düsseldorf. The inflight meal with the snake head present in it was photographed and posted on Twitter. Here is a look at the meal. The catering service to SunExpress was provided by…
A wild fight broke out between two women on a Las Vegas Spirit Airlines flight. It’s more and more common, but his time a brawl broke out between female passengers.
The first European airline group Lufthansa will cancel “almost all” of its flights in Germany on Wednesday due to a strike by its ground staff, the company announced in a press release in an already tense context for aviation. More than 130,000 passengers on nearly a thousand flights departing from and arriving at the two…
A small plane towing a banner crashed in the ocean Friday during a lifeguard competition that turned into a real-life rescue along Southern California’s popular Huntington Beach. Corinne Baginski was at the beach for her 17-year-old daughter’s races in the junior lifeguarding division around 1:30 p.m. when she heard the sound of the aircraft slamming…
Thousands of baby chickens died Tuesday from excessive heat, found in a cargo warehouse by a Miami-Dade airport employee. The “employee found the shipment of baby chickens in an Alliance (Ground International) Cargo warehouse that had arrived that day on a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul” during a routine patrol, explained Greg Chin,…