At 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 21 March, some French air-traffic controllers will stop work in protest against labour reforms. The action will continue until 05:00 UTC on Friday 23 March. All airlines have been told to reduce their operations by 30% in flights to/from Paris CDG, Paris ORY, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon & Nantes.…
Obese passengers and parents with young children have been banned from flying business class on Thai Airways’ new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Thai Airways International (THAI) says the limit on waist sizes for passengers, and ban on carrying infants on laps, in business class on its two Boeing 787-9 aircraft is a consequence of the installation…
A Red Arrows plane has crashed with the pilot ejecting. A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said: “We were called shortly before 1.30pm this afternoon (Tuesday 20 March 2018) to reports an aircraft had crashed at RAF Valley in Holyhead”. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 1700 UTC An engineer has died after…
A six-seater Piper PA-32 crashed onto a house shortly after take-off on Saturday, 17 March, killing all five on board and five on ground. Two other Filipinos sustained injuries as the plane burst into flames. The plane took off from a small airport north of Manila (ICAO: RPUX) at 11.21 am local time, bound to…
Airbus and Heathrow airport are celebrating the 10th anniversary of A380 operations at the airport. They began on March 18th 2008 with the arrival of the first A380, a Singapore Airlines flight SQ308 from Singapore Changi airport making Heathrow one of the first to welcome Airbus’ iconic double decker. Heathrow is now the world’s busiest A380 airport…
The main sections of the first A380 for Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) have arrived at the Airbus final assembly line in Toulouse via a special convoy, with six subassemblies – the nose, central and aft fuselage sections, the tailplane, and the two wings. ANA Holdings placed a firm order of three A380s in 2016,…
The GE9X engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation’s 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing’s new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew for more than four hours on its first flight. During…
According to CNN, seven US service members were killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in western Iraq, a US military official said. There were no survivors in the crash, the official said, adding that the crew of a second helicopter flying alongside did not report seeing signs of hostile fire when the helicopter went down.…
Ryanair has announced its first flights to Turkey with two new routes. The airline said it will operate two new routes weekly from Dublin and Bratislava to the southwestern Turkish resort of Dalaman from June. Both routes will operate once a week from June, as part of the airline’s summer 2018 schedule, and go on sale…
Virgin Atlantic has announced a second daily service between Heathrow and Johannesburg for winter 2018. The new flight will add an additional 180,000 seats on the route on board a new Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Virgin Atlantic’s new service will begin flying in winter 2018 with the first flight departing on October 28th. The additional daily…
A newly declassified video obtained by a research company shows a fast-moving UFO off the East Coast as it was tracked by two U.S. Navy pilots in 2015. It’s unclear what the object is, and the pilots are heard laughing and shouting as they attempt to track it. “Wow! What is that, man?” one of…
