British Airways chief executive and chairman Alex Cruz is stepping down to be replaced by the boss of Aer Lingus, Sean Doyle. Cruz will quit from the top job – one of the most high profile positions in British business – with immediate effect and become non-executive chairman. The decision was made by Luis Gallego,…
Turkey tracked U.S.-made F-16s flying in the eastern Mediterranean Sea using Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system The incident took place during the Eunomia joint exercise in August involving France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus. Turkey has used the S-400 radars to track its own F-16s in the past, a move seen as hostile toward the U.S.…
Etihad Airways have announced to have indefinitely grounded its entire fleet of A380s. The super jumbo is out of schedules since March. The airline is now grounding its ten A380s for at least the next 11 months due to Covid-19. It’s still not sure if the 10 A380s will return to the service.
An argument over face masks resulted in a fight onboard an Allegiant flight bound for Provo, and a woman caught the exchange on camera. Rylie Lansford was sitting right by the two men on Saturday’s flight, but as soon as one of them threw the first punch, she got out of the way and started…
Five people have died after two small planes crashed mid-air in France. An ultralight two-person plane collided midair with a tourist plane in Loches, Indre-et-Loire at around 4.45pm local time. The ultralight crashed on the fence around a house and the DR400 crashed several hundred metres away in an uninhabited area. All five people involved…
Airbus delivers A320 Family MSN10,000 to Middle East Airlines Middle East Airlines (MEA) has taken delivery of Airbus’ A320 Family aircraft with manufacturer serial number 10,000. MSN10,000 is the third A321neo to join the all Airbus MEA fleet, taking the fleet size to 18 aircraft. MEA received its first A321neo aircraft earlier in 2020 and…
The Federal Aviation Administration released two new airworthiness directives (AD) which require the airlines to modify their Boeing 747s and Boeing 767s fuel tank monitoring systems in order to prevent the risk of ignition within the tanks. The new directives apply for the following planes: 747-400 747-400D 747-400F 767-200 767-300 767-300F 767-400ER The FAA requires…
American Airlines has delayed plans to begin scheduling Boeing 737 MAX training for its pilots in November, the Allied Pilots Association said. Boeing is seeking approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on a series of changes to the 737 MAX following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that triggered the aircraft’s global…
A woman has been charged with money laundering after £1.9m in cash was found in suitcases at Heathrow Airport. A woman, 30, of Pelham Court, Leeds, was arrested at Terminal 2 as she waited to board a flight to Dubai on 3 October, UK Border Force announced. Tara Hanlon, a 30-year-old woman from Leeds, was…
The search for the flight MH370 has seen a new twist after media reports said pieces of a plane had washed ashore recently on a beach in Queensland, Australia. The debris was discovered by Mick Elcoate, who was fishing in the area on 5 October. Elcoate told The Australian newspaper that he initially thought that…
On Saturday, 30 September 2017, the Airbus A380-861 operated by Air France, was carrying out scheduled flight AF066 from Paris (France) to Los Angeles (USA). It took off at 09:50. At 13:49, while the crew were changing en-route flight level, they heard an explosion and observed asymmetric thrust from the right side of the aeroplane,…
A 180-seater plane landed in Rennes from London to deport a single migrant. A plane from London landed in Rennes on October 1 with a single passenger on board, Ismail, a 27-year-old Sudanese migrant, deported for having illegally crossed the Channel. An operation “very costly in terms of carbon footprint and public money” denounced by…