WestJet today announced the name and logo for its ultra-low-cost airline (ULCC) in Canada. Named Swoop, the ULCC will begin selling flights in early 2018. “The name Swoop denotes exactly what we plan to do,” said Bob Cummings WestJet Executive Vice-President, Strategy and the executive member responsible for the launch of Swoop. “It’s a powerful…
Lufthansa Group’s board has approved a €1 billion ($1.18 billion) investment in the “acquisition and leasing” of 61 aircraft for low-cost subsidiary Eurowings, as talks on taking over some of Air Berlin’s assets continue.
Airbus’s A340 laminar-flow test demonstrator took to the air for the first time Tuesday for the EU-sponsored Clean Sky “Blade” project. The four-engine jet, dubbed “Flight Lab,” took off from the Tarbes aerodrome in southern France at 11 a.m. local time and landed at Airbus facilities in Toulouse after a three-hour, 38-minute test mission.
Smoke filled the cabin of an Allegiant Air jet after it landed at a California airport on Monday, forcing coughing passengers to cover their faces with shirts and firefighters to board the plane, authorities said. None of the 150 passengers or six crew members was injured when the plane from Las Vegas landed at Fresno…
Firefighters and the ambulance service were called to the airport just after 6.30am this morning after the tow bar became embedded into the aircraft’s landing gear. The incident took place during push back. The incident has caused minor delays to several flights. A Manchester Airport spokesman said: “We can confirm that an aircraft has come…
North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country by tweeting over the weekend that North Korea “won’t be around much longer.” “Last weekend Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn’t be around much longer and declared a war on our country,” Ri said, according…
A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group’s campaign against West German authorities has returned home. The dpa news agency reported that the Boeing 737 arrived Saturday in the German city of Friedrichshafen, where it will be reassembled and displayed at the Dornier…
A Badr Airlines aircraft suffered a bird strike yesterday near Khartoum in Sudan yesterday. The short flight #J4341 took off from Ad Damazeen to khartoum international airport. The radome of the Boeing 737 was severely damaged during the incident. The crew managed to fly the plane safely to its destination.
