Airport officials stopped a 27-year-old man who attempted to fly from the UK to Egypt using a fake “fit-to-fly” COVID-19 certificate. Emmanuel Nere Mehari tried to board a plane from London Heathrow to Egypt to visit a sick relative. He was found with the fake document at London Heathrow’s Terminal 2. Mehari was initially allowed…
Venezuelan police prevented the take-off of a TAP Air Portugal cargo flight after sniffer dogs detected narcotics substances during an inspection. The TAP Airbus A330-900 was preparing to operate flight TP9532 from Simón Bolívar International Airport to Lisbon Portela Airport on May 5. However, the cargo flight was cancelled after the Regional Anti-Drug Intelligence Unit…
Sydney Airport’s east-west runway accepted its first flights yesterday, Sunday 9 May 2021, more than a year after it was closed to accommodate the extraordinary demand for aircraft parking due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The east-west runway accommodated almost 50 grounded aircraft from almost all domestic airlines during the crisis. The move to re-open the…
An American Eagle flight to Charlotte was forced to divert to Charleston due to severe thunderstorms. The flight was being operated by Republic Airways. The Embraer ERJ-175 regional jet was performing flight AA4798 from Key West International Airport, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday. However, due to bad weather, it was forced to divert…
A woman has been arrested after smuggling an estimated $40,000 worth of cocaine in seven pairs of shoes upon her return to the United States from Jamaica. The incident occurred on Sunday, May 2, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when a 21-year-old woman from Georgia was pulled aside for further inspection by U.S. Customs and…
These images were shot in the Pyrenees (France) in September 2019, near the Col du Tourmalet in Barèges. This mountain field is also named Castillon de la Laquette, reference LF6528. Very steep, and ultimately relatively long taking this slope into account, care must be taken to conserve enough energy to reach the platform and not…
UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK residents can leave the country for the first time in months from 17 May, allowing them to go on foreign holidays to green list countries. On Friday, 12 countries and territories have been added to the green list, meaning anyone returning from these countries will not…
London Heathrow Airport has pushed back the reopening date of Terminal 3 due to continued uncertainty over travel restrictions imposed by the government. Heathrow’s Terminal 3 was shut down in April 2020 after the global outbreak of the coronavirus. The terminal was previously announced to reopen on May 17. However, it has now been pushed…
Delta Air Lines has resumed selling middle seat blocks on Saturday, becoming the last major U.S. air carrier to unblock the middle seats. Delta’s CEO Ed Bastian announced in late March that the middle seats would be reopened in all cabin classes on every aircraft on May 1. In a statement following the first-quarter earnings…
A British Airways flight carrying 27 tonnes of medical aid to coronavirus hit-Indian has taken off from Heathrow Airport. The Boeing 777-200 aircraft took off from the London airport at 5pm on Wednesday for the eight-hour journey to Delhi, India’s capital city. British Airways and its sister company IAG Cargo will cover the costs of…
The former CEO of Etihad, James Hogan, was caught at Heathrow trying to violate the UK’s quarantine rules. He is now facing a fine of £10,000. Hogan flew from Geneva to London Heathrow on March 19 using his UK passport. However, he didn’t declare that he had visited the United Arab Emirates days before his…
