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…
When Leonardo Da Vinci first scribbled a flying machine in 1490, he probably had no clue that the aviation industry would become as massive as it is today. The aviation industry has come a long way from rudimentary drawings and is now a reality of the 20th and 21st centuries. Despite the airplane itself being…
Boeing is preparing for a new delay in the 777X program that would push first deliveries by at least a year into early 2025, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters. The delay is in line with an estimate given by the plane’s biggest customer – Emirates Airlines – whose president, Tim Clark, told…
The recent challenges around safety concerns and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in American aircraft manufacturer Boeing losing ground to European rival Airbus. By the end of 2021, Airbus had delivered 1,376 aircraft under all categories from the start of the pandemic in January 2020, according to data compiled by Finbold. The…
Low-cost airline Wizz Air has allowed customers to book flights from the United Kingdom to Ukraine in July after suspending them at the start of Russia’s invasion. On February 24 the carrier, whose routes cover much of eastern Europe, suspended its flights to Ukraine following the invasion by Russian forces. At the time it said…