Qantas 7-hour Boeing 787 Dreamliner scenic flight to nowhere have departed Saturday early with 150 passengers on board from Sydney. The scenic flight departed Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport at 10:45 am earlier today. The tickets for the flight was sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale. After achieving the sales record, a…
Airbus delivers A320 Family MSN10,000 to Middle East Airlines Middle East Airlines (MEA) has taken delivery of Airbus’ A320 Family aircraft with manufacturer serial number 10,000. MSN10,000 is the third A321neo to join the all Airbus MEA fleet, taking the fleet size to 18 aircraft. MEA received its first A321neo aircraft earlier in 2020 and…
The Federal Aviation Administration released two new airworthiness directives (AD) which require the airlines to modify their Boeing 747s and Boeing 767s fuel tank monitoring systems in order to prevent the risk of ignition within the tanks. The new directives apply for the following planes: 747-400 747-400D 747-400F 767-200 767-300 767-300F 767-400ER The FAA requires…
American Airlines has delayed plans to begin scheduling Boeing 737 MAX training for its pilots in November, the Allied Pilots Association said. Boeing is seeking approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on a series of changes to the 737 MAX following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that triggered the aircraft’s global…
A woman has been charged with money laundering after £1.9m in cash was found in suitcases at Heathrow Airport. A woman, 30, of Pelham Court, Leeds, was arrested at Terminal 2 as she waited to board a flight to Dubai on 3 October, UK Border Force announced. Tara Hanlon, a 30-year-old woman from Leeds, was…
A woman gave birth to a baby boy on board IndiGo flight from Delhi to Bengaluru on Wednesday evening. The airlines’ assistance and celebration of the birth have since gone viral on social media. In a statement, IndiGo confirmed that both the mother and the child were healthy and the flight landed at the Bengaluru…
On Saturday, 30 September 2017, the Airbus A380-861 operated by Air France, was carrying out scheduled flight AF066 from Paris (France) to Los Angeles (USA). It took off at 09:50. At 13:49, while the crew were changing en-route flight level, they heard an explosion and observed asymmetric thrust from the right side of the aeroplane,…
A 180-seater plane landed in Rennes from London to deport a single migrant. A plane from London landed in Rennes on October 1 with a single passenger on board, Ismail, a 27-year-old Sudanese migrant, deported for having illegally crossed the Channel. An operation “very costly in terms of carbon footprint and public money” denounced by…
British Airways is planning to to wave goodbye to its final two Heathrow based 747 aircraft. Earlier this year British Airways announced that it had brought forward the retirement of its fleet of 747-400’s as a result of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our airline and the aviation sector. LIVESTREAM FROM LONDON HEATHROW…
Boom Supersonic will roll its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft out of its facilities in Centennial, Colorado, on Wednesday and reveal the vehicle publicly for the first time. The rollout marks the handoff from the design, development, and build phase to testing, said Blake Scholl, Boom founder and chief executive. After undergoing a series of ground tests,…
While advancing its Artemis program – which includes sending the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 – NASA wants to know what you would pack for a trip to the Moon. The agency kicked off a new social media campaign this week asking participants to share what would be in their lunar…
Ryanair posted disappointing traffic numbers for September, primarily due to weak air travel demand stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. This Ireland-based carrier reported a 64% year-over-year plunge in September traffic to merely 5.1 million passengers. Ryanair operated approximately 53% of the normal September schedule with a load factor of 71%. On a rolling-annual basis, total…