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CUTLERVILLE, Mich. (WZZM) — A West Michigan man says he was forced to buy a new plane ticket home after the airline told him that he failed to show up for his original flight. Link
CUTLERVILLE, Mich. (WZZM) — A West Michigan man says he was forced to buy a new plane ticket home after the airline told him that he failed to show up for his original flight. Link
AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes has lashed out at airport charges in Australia as some of the highest in the world and warned that “tourists won’t come forever because there is plenty of choice”. Link
The crew of a Regional Express Saab 340B mistook a coal loading and storage facility in Newcastle for the local airport and began manoeuvring to land there, according to an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report. Comparison between the two locations (ATSB, via Crikey) The November 2012, flight from Sydney to Newcastle Airport was on descent…
An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation has found Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) significantly under-reported occurrences of terrain warnings during flights operated by its fleet of ATR 72 turboprops. The descent profile of VH-FVR into Moranbah. (ATSB) The ATSB discovered the under-reporting while looking into an incident on May 13 2013, when multiple terrain…
The Blue Angels, Marine Corps’ C-130 Hercules, affectionately known as “Fat Albert,” flies over the Silent Drill Platoon at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ.
Uruguay has wings again as its new airline, Alas Uruguay, received its first aircraft on Wednesday. Link
Etihad Airways is introducing the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on its daily Abu Dhabi-Washington Dulles service from March 15, marking the U.S. debut of its new First, Business and Economy class products. Link
Eddie Andreini survives air show accident, struggles to get out of his aircraft, burns to death waiting for fire trucks Link
People who’ve never flown it have no idea how vast the Pacific Ocean is,” Kiwi Robin Leach told B&CA. “You will be over water for 12 hours jetting from Auckland to San Francisco. Going the other way [i.e., west], headwinds can be a factor, and today [in mid-January] the jetstream is running south with strong…
I sure hope that MSP reports its activities to ATC: The Michigan State Police has a new eye in the sky as it begins using a drone to enhance law enforcement efforts. State police pilots provided media a demonstration of its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) — an Aeryon SkyRanger, more commonly called a drone —…