ABC News Australia and The Guardian Australia are reporting that Qatar will refer the officials involved in the forced examinations of women at the Hamad International Airport to prosecutors. The Qatari government also stated that those involved did not follow standard procedures and their actions were “illegal”. In a preliminary report on the incident…
United Airlines announced Thursday that it will offer free coronavirus testing to travelers on select flights between Newark and London’s Heathrow Airport beginning next month. The four-week pilot program will run Nov. 16 through Dec. 11. All passengers over the age of 2 on select flights between Newark and London will be given free rapid…
EasyJet announced that it has raised $399 million (306 million pounds) from the sale-and-leaseback of nine of its Airbus A320 jets. EasyJet also announced that it will continue to review its liquidity position and could seek more sale and leaseback deals in order to boost its finance in days to come. Before this latest agreement,…
A pilot project using sniffer dogs to provide instant and pain-free coronavirus testing at Helsinki airport has shown promising early results and proven popular with travellers, researchers said on Wednesday. Three dogs, named Kossi, ET and Miina, have sniffed swabs taken from 2,200 passengers in the month since the testing booth was set up at…
Surveillance footage showing the moments following the shocking discovery of an abandoned baby in a bin at Doha airport has been released. A newborn premature baby was found in a terminal bathroom at Hamad International Airport on October 2. After the discovery, a group of women from 10 different aircraft at the airport were subject…
Ryanair is suspending flights from regional airports, including Ireland West Airport, Cork and Shannon, from November 4 to December 13. In a statement, Ryanair said it recently announced its reduced winter schedule which took its capacity down to 40% compared to last year. “As a result of continuous Government mismanagement and a complete collapse in…
Qantas Freight has begun flying the world’s first Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter conversion aircraft. Qantas will operate it under a partnership with Australia Post. The first A321 freighter was converted by Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) and supplied to Qantas through lessor Vallair. The demand for Airbus A321 freighter is becoming popular among freighter operators. In order to…
Female passengers on 10 planes flying out of Doha were forced to endure invasive physical examinations, Australia’s foreign minister said Wednesday, greatly expanding the number of women previously thought affected. It was revealed on Sunday that women were removed from a Sydney-bound Qatar Airways flight in Doha earlier this month and forced to undergo vaginal…
Today, Emirates is sending an Airbus A380 to be dismantled in Tarbes, France. The 12-year-old Airbus A380 is sent to Tarbes after being repainted in white few months ago. The A380 (reg. A6-EDB) was performing its last commercial flight on 23 February from Muscat to Dubai. Since that, it performed a test flight on May…
A brawl happened on Spirit Airlines flight NK2322 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to Puerto Rico police, around 7pm yesterday, at the Luis Munoz Marin airport in San Juan, passenger Nyasy Veronique Payne “provoked an incident by acting in what witnesses called an agressive, hostile, & defiant behavior.” She hit…
Six Boeings 747 of the German airline Lufthansa have been temporarily parked in Twente Airport in The Netherlands since the summer. The six Boeing 747s are at risk of not being able to leave the airport due to a change from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT). The first two Boeing 747s landed to…
Air Transat operated the longest Airbus A321 commercial flight from Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, Canada to Athens, Greece on Monday. The flight TS690 touched down in Athens at 7:45 am on Monday, having covered 7,652 km. This one-time transatlantic flight was operated by an Airbus A321LR. The scheduled flight time was nine hours and…