A woman filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday against Southwest Airlines, claiming crew members mistook her husband’s medical emergency for unruly behavior aboard a California flight and didn’t assist him. Richard Ilczyszyn, 46, was found unconscious after the flight from Oakland to Orange County landed last year, and he died the next day at a hospital,…
Reuters Blamed initially on ‘engine failure’, it emerged on Tuesday that a government jet carrying Serbia’s president to Italy last week was forced to turn back when the co-pilot spilled coffee on the instrument board. Advisers to President Tomislav Nikolic described being “thrown around the cabin” when the plane — a 34-year-old French-built Falcon 50…
Turkish Airlines has announced a new daily flight from London Heathrow Airport to Istanbul, Turkey.
A JAL Japan Airlines Boeing 787-800, registration JA829J performing flight JL-728 (dep Apr 19th) from Bangkok (Thailand) to Osaka Kansai (Japan) with 183 people on board, was enroute when the crew received indication that one of the left main gear tyres had lost pressure. The crew continued the flight to Osaka for a safe landing…
BA Cityflyer from the 1st June is adding a 6th daily rotation on weekdays from London City to Dublin, providing late-evening service from London City and evening from Dublin. The route is served by an Embraer E170 or by E190. BA4470 LCY1920 – 2035DUB E70 (Sunday)BA4470 LCY2025 – 2140DUB E70 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)BA4470 LCY2025…
Virgin Atlantic is planning to introduce the Boeing 787-9 from London Heathrow to Chicago from the 27th April 2016. The Dreamliner will replace A330/A340 season. VS39 departs Heathrow at 9:45am and arrives in Chicago at 12:30pm VS40 departs from Chicago at 5:55pm and arrives back at Heathrow at 7:55am the following day.
Air New Zealand is to, from the 27th November, is launching the 787-9 on service to Fiji, which sees the Dreamliner operating up to 5 times a week. The service will fly to Nadi and will as follows: NZ52 departs Auckland at 9:45 and arrives to Nadi at 11:50am. NZ53 departs Nadi at 1:10pm and…
Colombia’s national airline, Avianca, has announced that it will increase the frequency of its London to Bogota flight. Passengers wishing to fly from Heathrow to Colombia’s El Dorado International Airport will now have a choice of seven departures a week up from four.
Seven people have died following a light aircraft crash in the Dominican Republic, with the dead believed to include the pilot and six tourists. The single-engine Piper PA-32 came down shortly after take-off from Punta Cana Airport on route to Arroyo Barril Airport, Samana.
Malaysia Airlines will be undertaking a network rationalisation exercise as part of the national carrier’s 12-point Recovery Plan outlined by Khazanah Nasional last year. Government controlled Khazanah Nasional took control of the airline following the loss of two Malaysian Airlines planes in 2014. The revised network plan is in line with MAS’ overall strategy to…
Air France has invested €50 million into redesigning its new medium-haul Business and Economy cabins. The cabins will be fitted in 24 Airbus A319 aircrafts in the first half of 2015 and in 25 Airbus A320 in the first half of 2016, totalling 7,800 new seats altogether.
Budapest Airport has begun work on the brand-new hangar for Wizz Air, which commences operation of its maintenance base in Budapest from September this year. The general contractor of the new hangar construction is Market Építő Zrt. Heavy machines once again started to roar at Ferenc Liszt Airport on Friday 17 April, between the two…