South Africa’s government will place the national airline under a local form of bankruptcy protection as a last-ditch measure to try and prevent its total collapse. State-owned South African Airways is entering a business-rescue process to allow a “radical restructuring” under which the carrier will receive 4 billion rand ($274 million) in funding, Public Enterprises…
United Airlines has placed a firm order for 50 Airbus A321XLR aircraft as it begins to phase out older models and launches an expansion of transatlantic routes from its key U.S. hubs in Newark/New York and Washington D.C. United plans to take delivery of the first A321XLR in 2024 and expects to begin international service…
A man suffering a panic attack tried to open the door of a British Airways flight to Saudi Arabia in midair but was stopped by fellow passengers, including the brother of the boxer Dillian Whyte. The incident occurred on Monday night about an hour before BA flight 263 from Heathrow to Riyadh was due to…
A Florida woman faked a medical emergency in order to get a larger seat on an American Airlines flight, authorities said. But the pilot, apparently not realizing the emergency was bogus, turned the plane around. The woman, who wasn’t publicly identified, was taken into custody when Miami-bound flight American Eagle 3508 landed back in Pensacola…
A female passenger is claiming she was kicked off a Turkish Airlines flight after a white man reported her for being suspicious. The female passenger wearing a hijab claims a white man reported her for being suspicious after reading a conversation she was having with a friend over her shoulder. The police forced her to…
London-Gatwick Airport is set to lose around 600,000 passengers following the demise of Thomas Cook Airlines. In the final week of September, following the collapse, 50,000 passengers at Gatwick Airport alone were stripped off their flights, representing around 254 commercial operations. It is understood that easyJet and Jet2 have snapped up over 65% of the…
Hong Kong Airlines, controlled by cash-strapped Chinese conglomerate HNA Group, must shore up its financial position by Dec 7 or risk the suspension or loss of its licence, the Hong Kong government said on Monday (Dec 2). Hong Kong’s Transport and Housing Board (THB) said it met with the city’s second-largest airline on Nov 27…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an evacuation slide fell off a plane and landed in a Milton backyard on Sunday. The pilot of Delta Air Lines Flight 405 from Paris, France, reported a loud noise as the plane approached Boston Logan International Airport around noon, according to the FAA. Workers discovered that the…
All passengers were evacuated onto the taxiway as operations were suspended for 15 minutes while this incident was ongoing. Operating flight LO641 to Bucharest, Romania for LOT, ES-ACD was taxying towards Runway 29 for departure when smoke filled the cabin and an evacuation was ordered. Multiple inbound aircraft were forced to hold until operations were…
People tweeted that a loud “explosion” had woken them up at around 04:20 GMT – with houses shaking and reports of police sirens straight after. It is believed that loud noise was two RAF Typhoons launched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to an unresponsive aircraft. It was reported by people across north London, Hertfordshire…
An erupting volcano in Mexico forced KLM #KL685 with horses on board to return to Amsterdam after an 11-hour flight. Flight #KL685 took off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and made it all the way to eastern Canada when the crew realized that a volcanic eruption in Mexico meant that the flight wouldn’t be able to…
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it notified Boeing that the agency will be the only issuer of airworthiness certificates for all new 737 MAX planes. In a letter sent to Boeing on Tuesday, the FAA said it “has determined that the public interest and safety in air commerce require that the FAA retain…
