Air China Boeing 747 departed from Pyongyang Airport. Kim Jong-un has boarded a Chinese private Boeing 747 jet commonly used by high-ranking Chinese officials, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing sources. UPDATE Sunday 06:40 UTC, the Air China Boeing 747 landed at Singapore Changi Airport. According to Reuters, one more plane has departed early on…
Singapore airspace will be restricted during the planned U.S.-N.Korea summit next week, according to a NOTAM posted by aviation authorities. The notice, published on the websites of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said airspace over Singapore will be temporarily restricted for parts of June 11, 12 and…
The wreckage of the missing Cessna Caravan aircraft was spotted Thursday morning in the Aberdares forest, Nyandarua County, Transport Principal Secretary Paul Maringa has confirmed. The Fly-SAX Cessna 208B Grand Caravan (reg. 5Y-CAC) went missing on Tuesday after leaving Kitale at around 4pm and lost contact with the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) control tower…
Four new RAF F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets have landed in the UK. The jets, which cost £92m each, made the 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic from a US Marine Corps base in South Carolina. The supersonic planes will be based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, where they are expected to be in operation by…
Tickets are now on sale for Latam Airlines Brazil’s new São Paolo-Lisbon flight, with the carrier also revealing it plans to serve Munich in the first half of 2019.
China’s national carrier resumed flights between Beijing and Pyongyang today amid improved Sino-North Korea ties, a company official said Tuesday. Starting Wednesday, Air China provides three flights per week on the route that it suspended on Nov. 21 last year. Relations soured last year as Beijing, angered by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests, backed a…
The first BelugaXL has passed the Ground Vibration Test (GVT), a requirement for certification of the aircraft that paves the way towards its maiden flight in summer 2018. The objective of this test is to measure the dynamic behaviour of the aircraft and confirm theoretical models of various flight conditions, such as manoeuvring, flying in…
Launch of a three-person crew aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:12:39 UTC.
According to Reuters, a German investment company said it would strip two Singapore Airlines A380 for parts after failing to find an airline willing to keep them flying following the decision by the airline not to keep them in service. Singapore Airlines launched A380 services in December 2007, but returned the first two aircraft to their…
The government’s economic sub-committee, chaired by Prime Minister Theresa May, backed the plans which were then approved by her full cabinet. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said it was a “historic moment”. Announcing £2.6bn in compensation for residents and noise abatement measures he said it would only proceed if air quality obligations were met. “The time…
British Airways owner IAG has suspended negotiations with Airbus over a possible deal for additional A380 superjumbos. Negotiations on a follow-up order had been suspended because of the problems with Airbus, such as the delivery delays on the A320neo, which already had caused plenty of frustration in the IAG management. A resumption of talks is not excluded, said…
Lufthansa apologised on Monday after publishing a promotional video for the World Cup in Russia that was actually filmed in Ukraine. The video is about two Germany fans in Moscow repeating everything they did in Rio when Germany won the world championship back in 2004. The men imagine themselves shivering in summer attire on a rainy square…