Britain will ease travel curbs for fully vaccinated travellers from next month, but expensive testing requirements and flight restrictions could see Heathrow Airport welcome fewer passengers this year than last year. From being the busiest airport in Europe in 2019 with over 80 million travellers, Heathrow is now tenth as rivals including Schiphol, Paris and…
Keeping the proper proportions, the inclination of the control tower at the airport in Santa Lucía, Mexico, is being compared to the Tower of Pisa. The architect of the work at the Mexican airport, Axel Belfort, spoke indignantly on social media after a photo of the leaning tower began to go viral. However, his revolt…
Massive queues have formed at Heathrow as crowds of people struggle to get through customs after e-gates failed, with some being left stuck on their planes. The unspecified technical problem has been confirmed to have hit other airports including Edinburgh and Manchester. In a statement, Heathrow said the issue has impacted Border Force’s “eGates”, which…
RAAF C-17 maneuvering at low level over Brisbane is one of the highlights of the annual Brisbane Riverfire Festival. On Sept. 23, 2021, a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), radio callsign “Stallion 63” flew a practice run for the annual Riverfire Festival due to take place on Saturday Sept.…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration announces a new travel policy that will lift the ban on UK and EU travellers from November. The United States announced a new international air travel system Monday, opening travel for all vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, including those currently impacted by the U.S. travel ban. “This vaccination requirement…
easyJet has seen UK bookings surge within hours of the UK government confirmation that fully-vaccinated travellers will no longer be required to take a PDT (pre-departure test) to return to the UK from non-red list countries. The change comes into effect on October 4th, ahead of the half-term holiday. Flight bookings for the late summer…
Some days are just turtally awesome! Today, in partnership with Exploris Aquarium in Portaferry, Co Down, Aer Lingus is repatriating a young endangered turtle on flight EI 782 from Dublin to Gran Canaria. Back in January 2019, a nine month old loggerhead sea turtle (named Julius Caesar or ‘JC’ to his friends) was found washed…
A man has been sentenced for flying a plane without a license, making emergency landing in Waterloo. A New Mexico man has been sentenced in Iowa to two years’ probation and fined $5,000 for flying a single-engine plane in 2018 without a license, which was discovered when he was forced to make an emergency landing.…
Last stored Lufthansa A380 in Germany has left Frankfurt to Spain, possibly its very last flight.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying handful of passengers has touched down at Kabul airport. The first international commercial flight has landed since the Taliban retook power. The PIA Boeing 777 has landed in Kabul in the morning. A AFP journalist on flight says only “around 10 people” aboard
A former flight attendant, Paul Veneto, arrived at Ground Zero in New York City, pushing a beverage cart from Boston to Ground to honour his fellow flight attendants who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Veneto completed a 220-mile walk from Gate C19 at Boston Logan International Airport to Ground Zero on Saturday to mark the…
Italian stunt pilot Dario Costa set Five Guinness World Records by flying an aeroplane through two Çatalca Tunnels in Istanbul, Turkey. The 41-year old pilot achieved this feat on board a custom-modified Zivko Edge 540 race plane through a twin tunnel along the Northern Marmara Highway in Istanbul. Mr Costa set the world record for…