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The year of 2014 has turned out to be the best year ever for airline safety, according to Ascend. This may seem an unexpected result, given the high-profile losses of two Malaysia Airlines 777-200s and crash of Indonesia AirAsia A320 crash last week. Paul Hayes, the director of air safety and insurance at Ascend, says…
Following the crash of the Indonesia AirAsia A320 on Sunday, the airline has suspended its flights between Surabaya and Singapore. From Sunday 4th January, flight QZ678 and QZ679 will no longer operate its 4 times a week service. On 28th December 2014, the Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 operated what seems to be a charter service…
Gulf Air has announced growth of its network in Saudi Arabia with services beginning to two new destinations from Bahrain to Gassim and Taif. This takes the total number of Saudi Arabian destinations from Gulf Air to six. The Bahrain flag carrier currently flies to Damman, Jeddah, Medina and Riyadh. The two new services will…
Sky News are reporting that the Air Asia Flight QZ8501 was not authorised to fly and that the company could lose its licence in Indonesia as it emerges the doomed flight was not allowed to travel on the day of the crash. Indonesia’s transport ministry has suspended all AirAsia flights between…
Sky News reports that Four “large objects” have been spotted in the Java Sea around 90ft (30m) underwater, says the man leading the hunt for the AirAsia plane that crashed six days ago. Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, chief of Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency, told reporters: “I’m confident this is part of the AirAsia plane.” He said…