Three people were injured after a World War II-era plane crashed in Stockton on Saturday evening, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities said the plane crashed at around 7:30 p.m. into an irrigation ditch in an open field in the area of Roberts Road and Muller Road. The Old Glory B-25 “Mitchell”…
A Silverstone Cargo plane has crash-landed at the Aden Abdulle Airport in Mogadishu. Silverstone Air Fokker 50 (reg. 5Y-MHT) supposed to fly to Beledweyne was damaged when it veered off runway impacting a perimeter wall at Mogadishu Intl Airport, Somalia. Photos of the crash show the plane of make Fokker 50 show the wreckage lying…
Eli Rozenberg, a 27-year-old New York-born yeshiva student who lives in Jerusalem, became the owner of Israel’s embattled national carrier El Al on Wednesday after he placed the only bid at a share offering at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Rozenberg’s Kanfei Nesharim company bought a controlling 42.85% stake in the airline with a $150…
British Airways announced it extends the cancellation of all short-haul flights from London Gatwick airport until March 2021, at the earliest.
The Emirates airline group unveiled plans to produce kosher meals in keeping with Jewish dietary rules, two days after the UAE and Israel signed a deal to normalise ties. Dubai-based Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, is expected to start flying to Tel Aviv by the end of the year, Israeli and Emirati…
British Airways announced it will begin flying direct from Lahore, Pakistan to London Heathrow four days a week, commencing on October 14, 2020. The ‘City of Gardens’, Lahore and will be the second city in Pakistan that British Airways will connect to London. The airline already flies every single day from Islamabad, connecting friends and…
A third of Ryanair shareholders today revolted against a €458,000 bonus for chief executive Michael O’Leary today at the budget carrier’s annual general meeting. Although the firm’s remuneration report was approved by 65.8 per cent of voters, 34.2 voted against the packages, which had been criticised due to the ongoing financial crisis brought on by…
Southwest Airlines Co said it temporarily grounded 130 Boeing 737-800 aircraft after it discovered discrepancies in aircraft weight data. The Dallas-based airline said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution, we have temporarily ceased flying the respective aircraft to enter the correct weights of the aircraft in question into the system and…
Airliners could reap fuel savings of up to 10 per cent — along with a corresponding decrease in emissions — by flying in formation like birds. The concept, which the European aerospace firm has dubbed fello’fly, will see planes fly relatively close behind one another. This allows the trailing aircraft to take advantage of the…
Jetblue announced its intention to launch 24 new routes towards the end of this year. Many of these routes have never been flown before by the airline. Each of the new routes adds strength to the airline’s focus cities in Florida, Latin America, the Carribean, New York, and California. Each of the markets added in…
The Cathay Pacific Group will park 40 per cent of its passenger fleet overseas and says a restructuring is “inevitable” as it reported a drastic drop in its traffic numbers for the month of August due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Hong Kong-based airline group revealed in its latest traffic figures for the month of…
Almost 600 UK-based Emirates employees risk losing their jobs after the airline warned its employees of the need to “consider reducing the size of the UK workforce”. The United Arab Emirates flag carrier stated that quarantine, border controls and other travel restrictions had left passenger demand “extremely subdued”, according to an internal memo seen by…
