ALERT Airports across India reportedly on high alert after Air India receives anonymous hijack threat – @timesofindia
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The year of 2014 is the lowest airline fatal accident rate in history
The year of 2014 has turned out to be the best year ever for airline safety, according to Ascend. This may seem an unexpected result, given the high-profile losses of two Malaysia Airlines 777-200s and crash of Indonesia AirAsia A320 crash last week. Paul Hayes, the director of air safety and insurance at Ascend, says…
NEWS Gulf Air is introducing new routes to Saudi Arabia.
Gulf Air has announced growth of its network in Saudi Arabia with services beginning to two new destinations from Bahrain to Gassim and Taif. This takes the total number of Saudi Arabian destinations from Gulf Air to six. The Bahrain flag carrier currently flies to Damman, Jeddah, Medina and Riyadh. The two new services will…
NEWS: Four Big objects now found in search for missing Air Asia plane
Sky News reports that Four “large objects” have been spotted in the Java Sea around 90ft (30m) underwater, says the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago. Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters: “I’m confident this is part of the AirAsia plane.” He said…