Canadian leisure carrier Air Transat is to take 10 Airbus A321neo LRs on 12-year lease from Dublin-based lessor AerCap, making it the North American launch operator for the LR variant. The aircraft will be delivered between spring 2019 and fall 2020, replacing Air Transat’s Airbus A310s, which will be gradually retired from the fleet. “The…
Seven hundred workers, including baggage handlers, cleaners and customer service agents at three New York-area airports are going on strike. The airport workers at Newark Liberty International Airport walked off the job at 9 p.m. Tuesday in a labor dispute with their employer, PrimeFlight, a subcontractor for several airlines. The workers are alleging unfair labor…
One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists have said. Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has…
easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has today announced that it will start flying from Southampton Airport for the first time with the launch of a new winter only service to Geneva and will launch eight other new routes from across the UK later this year. The new routes are: Bristol to Stockholm – commences 31 October,…
Passengers aboard a Haiti-bound Delta airline are stranded after the aircraft had to make an emergency landing. The Airbus A320 from the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, touched down at Florida’s Daytona Beach International Airport on Monday because the aircraft’s windshield and cone head were struck by hail. A cracked windshield as well as chipped…
An evacuation at a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Leesburg, Va. delayed hundreds of flights around the region Monday night, authorities said. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said there were ground stops at all three major airports in the region, meaning inbound flights didn’t take off from their origins for hours. Loudoun…
This morning, Qantas #QF1 from Dubai to London diverted to Larnaca due to medical emergency on board. The Airbus A380 (reg.VH-OQD) landed shorty after 07:00 UTC at Larnaca after a pregnant woman had complications. The medical condition of the passenger is still unknown.
An Air Canada plane touching down at San Francisco International Airport almost landed on a taxiway crowded with four other planes, now under federal investigation. On July, 7th, Air Canada flight #AC759 en route from Toronto was cleared to land just before midnight Friday at runway 28R, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. But the pilot…
A disruptive passenger tried to open emergency door of Air Asia Airbus A320 (reg. VT-ATF). At about 21:50 local time, a disruptive passenger traveling onboard Air Asia #I5546 from Delhi to Ranchi – Kolkata (seat no. 24A) tried to open the emergency door (R2) just before landing. He injured few other passengers and crew members when…
Sixteen people have been killed after a US military plane crashed in rural Mississippi. Emergency services were scouring a large field of debris on Monday night where the Marine Corps KC-130 refuelling tanker spiralled to the ground about 85 miles north of Jackson in Mississippi’s LeFlore County. Fred Randle, the county’s director of emergency management,…
A passenger died on Sunday after suffering from emergent health problem onboard an Iranian flight, which made emergency landing in northern Iran. The passenger, onboard Iran’s Mahan Air Flight #W585 en route from Moscow to Tehran, died despite efforts made to save his life. The Airbus A310 (reg. EP-MNF) made an emergency in the Rasht Sardar…
Traffic was stopped during few hours this afternoon at Eindhoven Airport (NL) after the control tower was evacuated. Flights to and from Eindhoven Airport were suspended for nearly two hours after an ‘unusual smell’ was detected in the air traffic control tower. The tower was evacuated as a precaution at around 12.30pm while firefighters investigated the…
