The White House will move ahead with the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported Thursday. The deal will see 50 F-35 jets sold to the UAE, sources told Reuters.
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…
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…
The agency’s latest rover only has about 146 million miles left to reach its destination. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30 – 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exactly the same distance it has…
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…
When a civilian aircraft strayed into forbidden airspace over an election rally for US President Donald Trump in Arizona on Wednesday, a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet was dispatched to warn it off, firing defensive flares to get the pilot’s attention. On Wednesday, Trump traveled to Bullhead City, Arizona, for a political rally less…
Shocking footage shows the moment a fight broke out between passengers in the middle of a Ryanair flight. Two male passengers were filmed running down the aisle towards a fight at the front of the plane between a woman and a man. Ryanair staff can be seen desperately trying to separate the passengers who were…
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…
A Boeing 747SP was critically damaged in a hangar during hurricane in Lake Charles, LA, USA. In recent images that appeared on social networks, a Boeing B747SPs can be seen badly damaged in a hangar in Lake Charles, LA, USA after hurricane Laura in September. Apparently, the plane has hit the wing of another plane…
Paris has overtaken Heathrow as Europe’s busiest airport, with the London hub reporting falling passenger numbers and rising losses. Paris Charles de Gaulle has overtaken Heathrow as the largest airport in Europe for the first time, with Amsterdam Schiphol and Frankfurt close behind. All three European airports have implemented testing regimes, with Heathrow repeatedly calling…
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…
