UPDATE Thick black smoke visible from Heathrow Airport is from a fire in nearby West Drayton
BREAKING Black smoke visible from Heathrow terminal 5. pic.twitter.com/o9pIlLBCEW— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) April 19, 2015
NEWS Qatar Executive targets Asian business jet market
Qatar Airways’ business jet division – is growing its international footprint by targeting corporations and the fast-growing number of high-net-worth individuals in Asia, reinforcing its strategy to tap into global growth markets.
NEWS easyJet launches five new destinations from Bristol
easyJet is launching flights to five new destinations taking-off from Bristol Airport. Lanzarote take to the skie. New routes include Lanzarote, Porto, Gibraltar, Bilbao and Isle of Man.
NEWS Boeing showcases space bins at Aircraft Interiors Expo
Boeing is showcasing its roomier luggage bins available on its 737 family of airplanes at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg this week.
NEWS Finnair and Airberlin to expand their codeshare relationship
Finnair is expanding its codeshare in Europe with fellow oneworld member Airberlin. Finnair’s AY codeshare will be added to selected services operated by Airberlin and Niki to Bucharest, Catania, Chania, Cologne, Larnaca, Malaga, Naples, Palma, Paphos and Stuttgart. Finnair passengers will be able to connect to these cities via Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna or…
NEWS Ryanair in social media focus
Ryanair has joined Instagram, offering behind the scenes images of life inside the low cost carrier, snapshots of its 190 destinations and the chance for customers to share their favourite Ryanair photos and experiences through the @Ryanair account.
NEWS British Airways introduces mindfulness practices to promote healthy flying
British Airways today introduced its Mindfulness for Travel series to provide fliers with meditation techniques for a relaxed and positive state of mind. The initiative was developed for the launch of British Airways’ new Airbus A380 service between San Francisco and London.
ALERT The employee who slept in the cargo hold on @AlaskaAir flight #AS448 has been banned
A Menzies Aviation (Seattle) baggage handler who became trapped in the baggage hold in the belly of an Alaska Airlines jet after takeoff from Seattle after falling asleep this week has been banned from all future work at the airline, says spokesperson on Thursday. The aircraft returned to Seattle while on route to Los Angeles,…
Former Obama pilot: “TWA Flight 800 Was Not Blown Up By A Faulty Fuel Tank; It Was Shot Down”
Was TWA Flight 800 shot out of the sky? As a former pilot, that is a question I get asked about all the time. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but let’s be clear: Yes. I say it was. And I believe the FBI covered it up. There are many reasons to disbelieve the official explanation of…
Report: Hackers Could Use Plane WiFi to Hijack Controls
That in-flight WiFi we’ve all become so fond of could be breached by hackers to take control of the plane, according to a worrying GAO report out yesterday. Passengers, or even people on the ground, could break down firewalls guarding communications and navigation systems, Reuters reports, meaning a hacker with just a laptop could potentially…
NEWS Rolls-Royce wins largest ever order from Emirates
Rolls-Royce has won its largest ever order, worth $9.2 billion, to provide Trent 900 engines and TotalCare service support to Emirates. The engines will power 50 Airbus A380 aircraft that will enter service from 2016. The decision confirms the Trent 900 as the engine of choice on the four-engine A380.