NEWS Delta Plane Skids Off Runway at LaGuardia Airport
An aircraft skidded on the runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence … It wasn’t clear how many people were on the Delta plane when it slid off the runway Link
NEWS Atlanta council: Call our airport by its proper name
Why don’t people call the world’s busiest airport by its full name? That’s something that Atlanta City Council wants to know. By a unanimous 14-0 vote, the council on Monday approved a resolution that puts that task on the airport general manager’s to-do list. Link
NEWS The Most Locgical (and craziest) MH370 Conspiracy Theories
THIS WEEKEND MARKS the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. No physical evidence of the Boeing 777 has been found, and other clues—logs of automated satellite communications and from military radar—have delivered more questions than answers. The 239 passengers and crew on board are presumed dead, and the official stance on…
NEWS ITB Berlin: Qatar Airways celebrates year of the fleet at ITB
Qatar Airways’ Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, has revealed the extension of the A350 XWB service throughout 2015, during the airline’s press conference at ITB Berlin.
NEWS ITB Berlin: Oman Air unveils expansion plans
Oman Air will launch services to three exciting destinations this spring. The national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman will fly from Muscat to Singapore and Goa from the 29th of March and to Dhaka as from August 2015. The news was announced at ITB Berlin, where the national carrier of Oman’s exhibition stand has…
NEWS After 7 years Qatar gives up waiting for Bombardier C-Series
Seven years after Al Baker first said he planned to order 20 of the planes, the executive said he’d gotten fed up with the many delays in Bombardier’s development of its biggest jet. Instead, Qatar will stick with a revamped Airbus Group NV model that’s due to come out before the end of the year.…
NEWS Two airlines reject rechargeable battery shipments
Two major U.S airlines say they will no longer accept rechargeable battery shipments as new government tests confirm explosions and violent fires are likely to occur when large numbers of batteries enclosed in cargo containers overheat. Link