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…
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.
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…
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.…
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
The July 6, 2013 crash occurred when an Asiana Boeing 777’s tail struck a seawall short of the runway at San Francisco Airport, sending the aircraft into a spin. Three teenage passengers from China died and more than 180 passengers out of around 300 on board sustained injuries. Link
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DAC performing flight FR-2829 from Reus,SP (Spain) to Brussels Charleroi (Belgium) with 164 people on board, was climbing through FL375 over the Pyrenees about 30nm west of Andorra at about 19:47L (18:47Z) when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence causing serious injuries to two flight attendants. The aircraft descended to FL360…
Seven additional A350s are to join the first two in Qatar’s fleet by year-end. The airline is planning to deploy the type to Singapore when it operates a third daily service to the city state from June. Link
Belgian regional carrier VLM Airlines is delaying its planned introduction of Sukhoi Superjets by more than a year because of a certification hold-up affecting the type’s long-range variant. In October 2014, the Antwerp-based wet-lease and scheduled carrier signed a tentative lease deal with Ilyushin Finance covering two Superjet 100LRs (plus two options and 10 purchase…