Air Namibia has ceased all operations, effective February 11. All aircraft will be returned to the airline’s base, as Namibia’s cabinet has given its approval for the flag carrier to be voluntarily liquidated. In a late-night notice on its Twitter account, Air Namibia Management further said that the reservation system for taking new bookings is…
Dropping off or picking someone up at London Gatwick Airport from the 8th March will cost a minimum £5 charge will apply to use the North Terminal Drop off zone. Gatwick Airport will introduce a £5 charge for vehicles which drop off passengers directly outside its North Terminal next month. Currently all flights are operating…
Etihad Airways became the first airline in the world to vaccinate all onboard crew members. The airline also claimed that 75% of its employees had received at least one dose of the vaccine. The employees were vaccinated through the airline’s “Protected Together” vaccination campaign. The airline began offering in-house appointments to its employees and their…
Eight employees of US-Bangla Airlines were arrested at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on the charge of smuggling gold bars weighing seven kilograms from Dubai. The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate arrested them, and they were handed over to the airport police on Tuesday morning. The customs department seized 60 gold bars weighing seven…
LATAM Airlines Argentina has officially ceased all operations after 15 years of operation out of Buenos Aires. Operations were ceased for an indefinite period last summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. LATAM Argentina is the first subsidiary of the LATAM Group that will finally cease flight operations after all negotiations about a possible continuation have…
Delta Airlines has planned to bring back 400 pilots to active flying status this summer, signalling optimism for air travel. In a note, Delta’s senior vice president John Laughter of flight operations, stated that the airline saw an opportunity to build back additional pilot staffing in advance of summer 2022 by bringing 400 affected pilots…
COMAC’s C919 prototype will be heading to Ontario, Canada for certification test flights of natural icing conditions in March. The certification flights will be conducted out of London International Airport. The International Test Pilots School (ITPS) will provide logistics and a test pilot and meteorologist services for the test flights. The test flights are scheduled…
Etihad Airways has told staffs to get COVID-19 vaccine or go without pay if they test positive for the novel Coronavirus. The airline also warned office staffs that they won’t be allowed to work from home during their isolation. In an internal memo sent to the staff, the airline said: “We strongly urge the non-vaccinated…
Lufthansa will continue to offer no First Class on flights to the USA until at least May 2021. Lufthansa pulled its Boeing 747-8s from flights to the U.S. in 2020. Lufthansa used to offer first-class on flights to Chicago and Los Angeles. However, since November 1st, these routes have been operated with the Airbus A350-900.…
A man from Newcastle, New South Wales in Australia has been jailed for two years after falsely claiming a bomb onboard a Singapore Airlines flight. Sanjaya Korat was onboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ423 from Mumbai to Singapore with his own mother and another family member on March 25, 2019. According to Australia’s 9News, in a…
A cat was noticed to be stuck in the cockpit of a locked El Al Boeing 737 parked at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The El Al Boeing 737-900ER has been on the ground since January 24th after the plane arrived back to Tel Aviv from Dubai. Ido Wachtel noticed the cat on February…
American Airlines on Wednesday warned some 13,000 U.S. employees of potential furlough in the next few weeks as the pandemic continues to suppress travel demand and the government’s Payroll Support Program (PSP) runs out. “We are nearly five weeks into 2021, and unfortunately, we find ourselves in a situation similar to much of 2020,” American…