UPDATE 18:55 UTC North Terminal of Gatwick airport was evacuated as a precaution, all getting back to normal now. UPDATE 18:15 UTC Fire service still investigating a fire alarm at North Terminal of London Gatwick airport.
Japan Airlines will suspend flights between Tokyo Narita and Paris Charles de Gaulle next month. The move follows a substantial drop in passenger numbers since last month’s terror attacks in the French capital, reports The Express Tribune. In the case of Tokyo Narita, a JAL spokesperson said that passenger volumes have declined by 60 per…
Hahn Air Systems, the global consolidation service connecting small, medium and low-cost airlines as well as rail and shuttle providers to all major GDSs worldwide announced that it has become a Strategic Partner of the International Air Transport Association. The Strategic Partnership Program, comprising of over 300 aviation solution providers helps affiliates to foster relationships…
The governments of the United States and Cuban governments have agreed to reinstitute scheduled air service between the two nations. It is hoped the deal could jumpstart economic relations between the two countries, paving the way for thousands of visitors to the island on a daily basis. Details
Even at Lufthansa, it doesn’t happen very often that three new long-haul destinations from Frankfurt are added to the network in a single week. Now, Lufthansa passengers have the opportunity to fly directly, with Europe’s biggest airline, from Frankfurt to the dream destinations of Cancun, Mexico, Malé (in the Maldives) and Mauritius. Details
The U.S. and Cuba have reached an understanding on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and U.S. officials said Wednesday, a day before the anniversary of the two Cold War foes restoring diplomatic ties. The diplomatic advance would help open the way for U.S. airlines to begin flying to Cuba within months in what would…
Iberia is to resume flights to Johannesburg, starting next August. With this route, the airline has resumed all flights it left to restructure its business in 2013. “When we presented our transformation plan, we said that we intended to resume all flights we needed to stop at that time,” recalled Luis Gallego, Iberia chairman. Details
New insights into the search for missing Boeing 777, and what happens the moment the jet is found, were explained at a briefing for members of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute in Perth recently. Paul Kennedy, MH370 Search Project Director, Fugro Survey, took the audience through the same induction video shown to recruits before…
The European Union on Wednesday adopted new rules to make it easier to track jetliners, stepping up international efforts to prevent a repeat of the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 people on board. The move is the first change in core legislation by a major regulator since last year’s unresolved disappearance of…
LATAM Airlines Group, made up of LAN Airlines and TAM Airlines, has taken delivery of its first A350 XWB in Toulouse, France. In doing so, TAM will become the first airline in the Americas to operate the all-new airliner and the fourth worldwide. TAM’s aircraft is configured in a premium two-class layout, with 348 seats,…
The British Airways Boeing 777 that aborted a takeoff at McCarran International Airport with 157 passengers and 13 crew members aboard in September will fly again. A representative of the London-based airline said Wednesday that crews would be dispatched to McCarran and that work would begin “shortly” to repair the aircraft’s hull to make it…
