UNITED STATES – A father and daughter team flew together for the first time in an American Airlines commercial airliner from Chicago to Dallas and then to Orange County on Wednesday This was the first time this has ever happened for American Airlines and in the United States. READ FULL STORY Father/Daughter Fly Commercial Airliner
A breakup may be Bombardier Inc.’s best option for gaining liftoff. Shares of the US$3.5 billion maker of planes and high-speed trains have slumped almost 40 percent in a year, while rivals such as Boeing Co. and Airbus Group NV rallied. Delays and cost overruns and delays on the new CSeries jetliner dragged Bombardier to…
In the future, a fleet of heavy transport aircraft will reportedly be capable of moving a strategic unit of 400 Armata tanks, with ammunition, to anywhere in the world. And probably at hypersonic speed, enabling Russia to mount a global military response. According to a new design specification from the Military-Industrial Commission in Moscow, a…
Korean Air, the flag carrier of South Korea, has announced a new codeshare agreement with Aerolíneas Argentinas on the Seoul-New York-Buenos Aires and Seoul-São Paulo-Buenos Aires routes. The new codeshare on the route via New York will commence on March 25th 2015 and the route via São Paulo will take effect after April upon obtaining…
On easyJet flights U26747 from Belfast to Reykjavik and U21805 from Manchester to Reykjavik, the pilot took a diversion and circled above the ocean so the passengers could have a good view of the solar eclipse. well done @easyJet for letting the pax take a look at the #eclipse2015 en-route to Iceland pic.twitter.com/vhF0r27aQ6 – @NikPhillips666 — AirLive.net…
The bird strike occurred moments after the Airbus A321 took off from Beirut’s international airport en route to Frankfurt.The plane was carrying 148 passengers when it lost power in one of its two engines and was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing in Beirut.
NASA airborne science lab with SOFIA telescope flight tracker is live. Link
Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts and Flight Engineers Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov practiced emergency procedures Tuesday, preparing the three crew members for the actions they would take in the unlikely event that they must evacuate the International Space Station. Link
Ryanair has backtracked on plans to develop a cheap flights to America- just days after it said it had received approval from the board.On Monday, the budget airline had announced plans to run transatlantic services between key European cities and the US with one-way tickets costing from as little as £10.But today, bosses have been…
Many thousands of customers are disappointed with one of New Zealand’s major banking company’s. The Bank of New Zealand has decided to pull away from air new zealand air-points which can be earned if your a air points member with air new zealand. Air NZ has opted to go with Westpac as Qantas has already…
The Centres for Disease Control yesterday said that a female flight attendant of China Airlines unknowingly contracted rubella, urging the CDC to try and conduct follow-ups with up to 1,558 people. – See more at: http://ift.tt/1MSJSpD Link
Nate Silver has just unveiled a new Fastest Flights interactive tool promising to show you which domestic airline will get you to your destination on time. Link