French bee has announced that it will launch direct flights between Paris and New York starting July 14th. The low-cost long-haul airline will operate four weekly flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Paris-Orly Airport. Flight BF720 will be departing Paris on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, whereas the return flight will arrive on the…
London Heathrow has announced that it will reopen Terminal 3 on July 15 as more people get vaccinated and demand for air travel rises. Heathrow closed its terminal 3 back in 2020 to get along with the pandemic hit situation and prevent expenses. Compulsory Quarantine and less movement reduced the demand for air travel worldwide.…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late on Monday that some undelivered Boeing 787 Dreamliners have a new manufacturing quality issue that the largest U.S. planemaker will fix before the planes will be delivered. The FAA said the issue is “near the nose on certain 787 Dreamliners in the company’s inventory of undelivered airplanes. This…
Winners of #EURO2020 boarded Alitalia A319 during the night. This morning, Alitalia Airbus A319-112 (reg. EI-IMC) flew home the Italian football team for the UEFA Euro 2020 championship (played in 2021). Italy defeated England for the championship. Alitalia flight AZ9001 took off from Luton Airport at 3:02 am and landed at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport at…
FedEx Grand Caravan at Eppley, the plane tipped over due to 95 mph winds which is almost this plane’s rotation speed. Severe thunderstorms in Nebraska left nearly 200,000 customers in the Omaha area without power overnight Friday, according to reports. Wind gusts as strong as 90 mph downed trees and power lines, sometimes onto cars,…
Two wildland firefighters have died after their aircraft crashed while battling the Cedar Basin Fire in Mohave County Saturday. The Cedar Basin Fire was sparked by lightning and has burned 300 acres near the tiny community of about 100 people. In a statement, The Bureau of Land Management says the crash occurred around 12 p.m.…
The world’s largest transport plane took off for another flight from Kiev. The takeoff was capture by a drone while the An-225 MRIYA was flying to Leipzig.
KlasJet crew members were detained by the Belgian Authorities for more than three hours at Charleroi Airport on June 30th, as reported by the European business aviation company. KlasJet Boeing 737 crew were detained after the plane landed at Charleroi to collect the Belgium National Team players for the Euro 2020. KlasJet was chosen to…
British Airways has been fined £1.8 million after an employee was crushed by a loaded baggage tug, leaving her seriously injured at Heathrow Airport in March 2018. She was hit by a passing baggage tug loaded with luggage at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 when she was walking in the centre of a roadway used by tugs…
Southwest Airlines is offering higher overtime pay to its employees to avoid any flight disruptions due to a shortage of employees during the busy Independence Day holiday travel period. In addition to offering double overtime pay for flight attendants, Southwest is also offering double pay for ground-operations agents and cargo agents picking up open shifts,…
A Ryanair flight to Milan was delayed after an unauthorized passenger caused chaos at Brussels Airport on Thursday. The man boarded the Ryanair plane without the necessary documents and locked himself in the lavatory. The Federal police were informed, and police officers stepped into the plane to arrest the man. All passengers were asked to…
A prototype flying car has completed a test flight between two cities in Slovakia, spending 35 minutes airborne. Klein Vision’s AirCar flew between Nitra and the capital Bratislava on Monday, according to a press release published Wednesday. The AirCar Prototype 1 is powered by a 160 horsepower BMW engine, and comes equipped with a fixed…