Australian Senator Jaquie Lambie has been banned from Qantas flights and lounges for 6 months. The ban comes after the Independent Senator from Tasmania ranted at Qantas staff in Melbourne 25 March. Nine Newspapers reported today that Senator Lambie went on a rant after being denied access to the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge in Melbourne.…
Air France has been forced to cancel its route between Paris and Moscow after the Russian authorities failed to approve a new routing to enter their territory. Air France’s flight AF1154 was cancelled on 26 and 27 May as it was scheduled to operate on a new route designed to bypass Belarusian airspace. The European…
An Emirates Boeing 777 had just one passenger on board in a recent flight from Mumbai to Dubai. He had paid Rs 18,000 for an economy class seat. The captain of flight EK501 gave the flight details in person rather than announcing them over the passenger address (PA) system as Bhavesh Javeri was the only…
LATAM expects to hire 750 crew members (pilots and flight attendants) in the coming months. Deliveries of new aircraft, increase of the network in the domestic market and hiring of crew members are movements in line with the company’s most optimistic vision for the coming months.
Ryanair Holdings Plc wants to have a deal by the end of the year to buy at least 100 737 Max 10 jets from Boeing Co. starting in 2026, Chief Executive Michael O’Leary told the Mail on Sunday. The planes carry 230 passengers each, versus 197 for Ryanair’s current fleet, according to the report. Ryanair…
A female flier, apparently irate because the phone charger at her airline seat failed to work, caused such a disruption that the captain was forced to make an emergency landing. The American Airlines flight from Tokyo to Dallas Fort Worth was placed into “Level Three Lockdown” and diverted to Seattle Tacoma Airport after the woman…
Before boarding the flight from Greece to Lithuania Protasevich texted his friends he was being shadowed at Athens airport. Before boarding the flight from Greece to Lithuania, where the blogger lives in exile, Protasevich had told friends he was being shadowed at Athens airport by a bald man with a leather suitcase speaking Russian. “Lol,…
Austria is banning direct UK flights again over fears of the Indian variant. The European nation previously banned direct flights to and from the UK in December, as the Kent variant began spreading widely. The ban was lifted on 21 March, as the UK began to emerge from lockdown. The new ban will take effect…
Belarusian blogger’s Roman Protasevich was escorted away at Minsk airport. As Roman Protasevich’s Ryanair flight began descending towards Minsk, the 26-year-old Belarusian opposition blogger grew frantic, giving his phone and laptop to his girlfriend and pleading with a flight attendant to stop the plane from landing. “Don’t do this, they will kill me, I am…
The European Union is considering shunning Belarus’s airspace and banning national carrier Belavia from its airports after Belarusian authorities scrambled a warplane and forced a Ryanair jetliner to land in Minsk to arrest a dissident. EU leaders strongly condemned Belarus over Sunday’s incident, in which a flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted and Roman…
Authorities in Minsk have searched a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt including passengers. The Airbus A319 (reg. D-AIBD) landed punctually at 1:23 pm from Frankfurt in Minsk, but the handling for the return flight did not go normally. Belarusian authorities searched the plane and passengers of Lufthansa flight LH1487 from Minsk to Frankfurt before it has…
UK aircraft have been ordered to stay away from Belarusian airspace, following Sunday’s forced diversion of a Ryanair plane. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said he has instructed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to request airlines avoid Belarusian airspace “in order to keep passengers safe”.