easyJet has seen UK bookings surge within hours of the UK government confirmation that fully-vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to take a PDT (pre-departure test) to return to the UK from non-red list countries. The change comes into effect on October 4th, ahead of the half-term holiday. Flight bookings for the late summer…
Some days are just turtally awesome! Today, in partnership with Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry, Co Down, Aer Lingus is repatriating a young endangered turtle on flight EI 782 from Dublin to Gran Canaria. Back in January 2019, a nine month old loggerhead sea turtle (named Julius Caesar or ‘JC’ to his friends) was found washed…
A man has been sentenced for flying a plane without a license, making emergency landing in Waterloo. A New Mexico man has been sentenced in Iowa to two years’ probation and fined $5,000 for flying a single-engine plane in 2018 without a license, which was discovered when he was forced to make an emergency landing.…
Last stored Lufthansa A380 in Germany has left Frankfurt to Spain, possibly its very last flight.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying handful of passengers has touched down at Kabul airport. The first international commercial flight has landed since the Taliban retook power. The PIA Boeing 777 has landed in Kabul in the morning. A AFP journalist on flight says only “around 10 people” aboard
A former flight attendant, Paul Veneto, arrived at Ground Zero in New York City, pushing a beverage cart from Boston to Ground to honour his fellow flight attendants who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Veneto completed a 220-mile walk from Gate C19 at Boston Logan International Airport to Ground Zero on Saturday to mark the…
Italian stunt pilot Dario Costa set Five Guinness World Records by flying an aeroplane through two Çatalca Tunnels in Istanbul, Turkey. The 41-year old pilot achieved this feat on board a custom-modified Zivko Edge 540 race plane through a twin tunnel along the Northern Marmara Highway in Istanbul. Mr Costa set the world record for…
211 people including American, British, Dutch, Ukrainian and German passport holders will be allowed on board. aliban authorities have agreed to let 200 American civilians and third country nationals who remained in Afghanistan after the end of the U.S. evacuation operation to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport, a U.S. official said. The Taliban…
An unidentified blonde woman walking through an airport in only a bikini and mask has become a viral video. The video shows the woman strutting through an airport terminal with an olive bikini and a backpack. Despite her lack of clothing, the passenger was still wearing a mask in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration guidelines.…
Emirates will welcome their last three A380s this November, bringing forward the delivery timeline from June 2022. The UAE-based carrier is the largest operator of A380 and intends to fly the superjumbos for two more decades. While many other airlines are retiring some or even all of their A380s after the pandemic, Emirates will still…
At least four planes chartered to evacuate hundreds of people seeking to escape the Taliban have been unable to leave Afghanistan, officials said. There are conflicting accounts as to why the flights were unable to take off. At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan…
Ariana Afghan Airlines resumed some flights in Afghanistan between Kabul and three major provincial cities on Saturday, the carrier said, after a technical team from Qatar reopened the capital’s airport for aid and domestic services. Flights between Kabul and the western city of Herat, Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan and Kandahar in the south have…