The Official Receiver has announced EasyJet has bought Thomas Cook’s landing slots at Gatwick and Bristol airports for £36m from liquidators for the collapsed travel firm. EasyJet acquired 12 of summer slot pairs and 8 winter slot pairs at Gatwick, plus six summer slot pairs and one winter slot pair at Bristol.
Passengers on a British Airways flight #BA867 from Budapest have been held and checked at Heathrow Airport following an incident on the plane. The BA867 flight landed shortly after 7pm on Thursday runway 27R. Police, ambulance and fire services are in attendance as is protocol with emergencies on flights. Reports suggest the passengers are currently…
Police is investigating “serious sitution” aboard a plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE The hijacking alert (squawk 7500) was triggered “by mistake” – Air Europa confirms. UPDATE Search on board the plane continues. UPDATE Passengers and crew members have been safely taken off the plane. UPDATE The incident is…
On Saturday evening the British Airways flight #BA42 from Cap Town to London Heathrow was assigned the Squawk Transponder code 1232 by sarcastic South Africa ATC. This was a reference to England losing 12-32 to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup final earlier in the day.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will take a significant cut in pay for 2019 and 2020, according to the company’s new chairman. In an interview on CNBC Tuesday morning, Dave Calhoun, who was named Boeing’s chairman last month when the board stripped Muilenburg of that title, said that the CEO called him Saturday morning to suggest…
A German union on Monday said it had called on Lufthansa cabin crew to stage a strike on Thursday and Friday in an escalating battle for better pay and conditions. The walkout, scheduled to start at 11 pm GMT on Wednesday and end on Friday at 11 pm GMT, “will affect all Lufthansa flights” scheduled…
A Kenya Airways Dreamliner was yesterday forced to turn back to Johannesburg right after takeoff. Yesterday, AIRLIVE tweeted at 11.09UTC: “Kenya Airways #KQ761 to Nairobi just returned to Johannesburg after takeoff”. The Boeing 787-8 (reg. 5Y-KZC) was heading to to Nairobi, Kenya when it turned around to land on runway 03R about 30 mins after…
The picture, which shows the female passenger sitting in the captain’s seat and making a peace sign, was widely shared on Chinese social media site Weibo over the weekend. “Thanks to the captain. So happy,” read the caption. Taken on an Air Guilin flight on 4 January, the image’s recent circulation prompted the airline to…
French BEA is looking for pieces fallen from the engine of Swiss A220 (reg. HB-JCM) following the incident during July. UPDATE Fragment from the engine of Swiss A220 (reg. HB-JCM) has been found on the ground by the volunteers. The pieces are believed to fell at cruising level FL330 over the city of…
Prosecutors probe flight from Yakutsk to Batagai as leaked video is flagged by local media. The video showing a young woman trying her skills at controlling the plane was sent to news.Ykt.ru news website, with a message from several readers claiming it was filmed during an IrAero airline flight from Yakutsk to Batagai. The woman…
British Airways #BA253 from London Heathrow to Nasseau made an emergency landing in St. John’s, Canada. The Boeing 777-200 (reg. G-YMMU) was on its way to Nasseau when the crew was informed of a possible fuel leak. The crew decided to shut down right engine and to divert to St. John’s. The aircraft was cleared…
Flights to and from New Delhi’s international airport were delayed and diverted on Sunday as pollution reached “unbearable” levels, leaving the Indian capital blanketed with heavy smog. Visibility was so poor that 37 flights – including at least one international journey – were diverted from the city’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Pollution indexes saw air…
