Lufthansa’s latest offer to German pilots has been rejected by their unions this week, but the flag carrier’s CEO has joked in an exclusive interview with Arabian Business that his back-up plan may be to hire outspoken Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker as his union advisor. Link
When Southwest Airlines Flight 2207 from Aruba touched down at Hobby Airport this past Saturday (March 7), it ushered in a new era in Houston aviation. It’s the first time the airport has had international flights since the 1960s. Link
Virgin Atlantic is equipping its engineers at London’s Heathrow Airport with Sony smart glasses and smart watches so they can stream video tutorials and check for job updates, respectively, according to Engadget. The true test of the wearable tech will be whether it is streamlined enough to help engineers do their jobs better, and not…
A mysterious owner of a private aircraft was above Lakeland (Florida) at around 6 pm yesterday (thursday march, 12th) when it started to draw a penis on Flightradar24 with his flight path, cruising at 1,800ft. The plane is a a Vans RV-12, delivered very recently. To draw objects on Flightradar24 looks to be a new…
The oil boom last year was easy to see at the airport in Midland, Texas, the gateway to the biggest crude-producing region in the U.S. The 30 or so spaces for private planes were often filled. On one day in early February, a lone corporate jet sat on the tarmac, the empty spots a harbinger…
Each dot on the map above represents a group of people who boarded a plane and simply disappeared. Some vanished over vast oceans, with no land in sight; others must have gone down in remote mountain ranges, inaccessible by rescue teams. But if they are on the map it means that no trace of their…
The specially modified short takeoff/landing (STOL) aircraft that were a hit at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 will return to Wittman Regional Airport for the 63rd annual convention and fly-in. These aircraft compete at the annual Valdez, Alaska, fly-in and air show each May, and more than a dozen of them will demonstrate their unique capabilities…
Deutsche Lufthansa has achieved its operating-result objective for 2014, reporting €954 million operating profit for the year. This was a €255 million, or 37 per cent, improvement on the prior-year result. Following a revision of its original projections owing to negative yield trends and the extraordinary impact of strike action, the company had projected an…
Deutsche Lufthansa has achieved its operating-result objective for 2014, reporting €954 million operating profit for the year. This was a €255 million, or 37 per cent, improvement on the prior-year result. Following a revision of its original projections owing to negative yield trends and the extraordinary impact of strike action, the company had projected an…
Qantas’ first Boeing 747-400, celebrated for having flown the longest commercial flight in history from London to Sydney, made its shortest and final journey earlier from Sydney to Illawarra Regional Airport in New South Wales. After less than 15 minutes in flight, Qantas’ B747 touched down at 07:47 and was delivered to its new home…
They are one of the most iconic performance groups in existence, amazing millions yearly. Their shows feature seemingly super-human levels of precision. Now, one of them is going to tell you what it’s like to don the blue flight suit as part of the elite of the elite, as a member of the US Navy…