Today’s air parade was suddenly cancelled altogether in the five biggest Russian cities. In Moscow, the air part of the parade was canceled due to “bad weather”. RIA Novosti was informed by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. The air parade did not take place in Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, St Petersburg…
British YouTube travel blogger Benjamin Rich, who specializes in remote and sometimes dangerous parts of the world, has been arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday. Dmitry Rogozin said in an online post that Rich – whose Bald and Bankrupt channel has 3.53 million…
A dad was the captain of his daughter’s first flight as Southwest pilot. Mackenzie was a kid the first time she rode on a Southwest plane flown by her dad, Captain Kyle. Last month, they had another special “first” together: sharing the flight deck for Mackenzie’s first flight as a Southwest pilot! Now that’s some…
A Ukrainian businessman is turning scraps of wreckage from a downed Russian fighter plane into souvenir key. A Ukrainian makes keychains from Russian fighter plane wreckage to fund war effort. “Many of my friends tell me: ‘US$1,000 – nobody will give you this for this piece of metal, it’s crazy,’” said Iurii Vysoven, founder of…
The Qantas Group has today announced several major fleet decisions that will reshape its international and domestic networks over the next decade and beyond. These decisions will also improve journeys for millions of people every year, and create over 1,000 jobs as well as many career progression opportunities at the national carrier. Domestically, Qantas will…
About 5 million honeybees bound for Alaska last weekend got waylaid when Delta Air Lines routed them through Atlanta Most of the bees died after being left for hours in crates on the ground during hot weather. The bees were the first of two shipments ordered by Alaska beekeeper Sarah McElrea from a distributor in…
Hazel McCallion, one of the longest serving mayors in Canadian history, has accepted a three-year contract extension as a Greater Toronto Airport Authority board member. Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said in a news release this week the 101-year-old was reappointed to the GTAA board as a director. She was first appointed to the GTAA…
Russian Air strikes have hit Odessa airport The governor says the runway has been damaged. The terminal has also been hit. According to the operational command South, the runway was damaged to the point that it can no longer be used.
Last Tuesday, Pam and Jeremy joked that they should hop on a plane to get married in Vegas. It wasn’t long before both realized that the other wasn’t actually kidding, so they booked a flight for Sunday on one of our competitors, with a Vegas wedding chapel appointment Sunday night. Come Sunday, the couple arrived…
Authorities are investigating after a pilot reported his plane was damaged by what he believed to be a gunshot while landing at Gardner Municipal Airport in Massachusetts on Monday. According to Massachusetts State Police, the pilot reported that he believed the single-engine Cessna 172 was hit by a gunshot. After landing it was determined that…
SpaceX will start providing wireless internet on Hawaiian Airlines flights from the Starlink satellite network as early as next year, a service the airline told CNBC it plans to offer to passengers for free. The deal marks the first for Elon Musk’s space company with a major airline. Starlink is SpaceX’s network of about 2,000…
Air Lease Corp. disclosed Friday it is writing off $802.4 million for leased aircraft trapped in Russia it doesn’t expect to recover following Western sanctions against the country for the invasion of Ukraine. So far only 32 of 513 Russian-operated aircraft managed by foreign leasing companies have been returned to their owners, aviation consulting firm…