UPDATE 8:52UTC We have confirmation British Airways #BA228 asked for a priority landing at Heathrow due to a minor technical fault. UPDATE 8:30UTC British Airways #BA228 safely landed runway 09L, shut engine #1 down on the taxi way, fire crew following. BREAKING British Airways #BA228 from Baltimore is declaring an emergency inbound Heathrow https://t.co/nP4oLdnPjm pic.twitter.com/oJaOysAz9t…
VLM Airlines has announced on June 22nd 2016 that they will be filing for bankruptcy after what has seemed to have been a promising start to the airline’s relaunch. They posted on Twitter that all flights have been cancelled and that operations have been permanently suspended. The airline currently operated with Fokker F50 aircraft and…
Emirates has released a 360-video tour of the cockpit of the world’s biggest passenger plane – the Airbus A380 – featuring Kiwi pilot, Thomas Ziarno. Captain Ziarno and first officer Abdulrahman Mohamed Al Busaeedi from the United Arab Emirates explain the the controls of the super jumbo. Emirates is the biggest operator of A380s in…
Police had to be called and five people were escorted off an airplane after a fight broke out in China on Saturday. The brawl reportedly happened because a woman kept complaining about the delayed flight from Beijing to Xi’an. When another passenger on the Hainan Airlines flight became involved she started hitting him with her…
UK National Carrier British Airways have announced a new route addition to their Germany portfolio with a new route to Berlin from London City, operating 3 times per day. This is following the airline’s success in the German market with the opening of routes to Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt accordingly. The route will be operated…
The passenger was already ill when boarding at Dubai International Airport (DXB) and still had pulse when Emirates flight EK21 landed in Manchester but died moments later. The victim was Pakistani, about 35 to 45 years old and was traveling with a friend. The Boeing 777-300 ER (reg. A6-EGT) landed at 7.30 in Manchester. The body…
Iran has reached a deal to buy 100 planes from U.S. plane maker Boeing, and the two sides are awaiting approval by U.S. Treasury authorities, the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation said in remarks published by state media on Sunday. So far, Boeing has only been granted permission to present its products to Iran…
