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”.
Air India’s customer database — name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information and frequent flyer data – has suffered a massive security breach. The airline has informed affected passengers that the “breach involved some personal data registered between August 2011 and February 2021.” It adds that “no passwords data was affected.” This…
Aerion Supersonic, the Nevada-based company that planned to build business jets capable of silently flying nearly twice as fast as commercial aircraft, is shutting down. “In the current financial environment, it has proven hugely challenging to close on the scheduled and necessary large new capital requirements” to begin production of its AS2 supersonic jet, the…
Ryanair Boeing 737 FR4978 Athens-Vilnius landed after bomb threat at the Minsk National Airport. Roman Protasevich, an exiled Belarusian activist, was on the board. He is reported to be detained Belarusian opposition Telegram channel Nexta has said its former editor and exiled opposition activist Roman Protasevich has been detained at Minsk airport after his Lithuania-bound…
Spanish tourism officials have confirmed visitors from the United Kingdom will be able to travel to the country for a holiday from Monday. Travellers from the UK will not need to present a negative Covid-19 test, as long as they have remained in the country for the past 14 days. However, it is still mandatory…
