Pakistan International Airlines has taken disciplinary action over staff allowing seven passengers to travel without seats. The flight in question went from Karachi to Medina carrying a total of 416 passengers, on a Boeing 777 with a total seating capacity of 409, including staff seats. Three people were reported to be involved, the captain,…
A British Airways flight from Heathrow to San Francisco has been delayed after a mouse was spotted on the plane. Passengers on board the Boeing 777-200ER were strapped in and waiting to takeoff when the cancellation was announced. by the crew: “a rather unusual occurrence has occurred”. All passengers had to disembark. An another plane had been…
The world’s largest plane is set to become a regular visitor to the UK after its operator opened a new base at Stansted Airport. The six-engined Antonov An-225 Mriya – which can transport the equivalent of ten battle tanks – is expected to make frequent appearances at airports in Britain. Its Ukrainian operators want to…
Flybe Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 (reg.G-ECOA) faced problems with its front wheels as it travelled from Birmingham to Edinburgh at around 7pm on Tuesday. The airline said emergency services rushed to Edinburgh Airport as a precautionary measure to meet flight BE851. A spokeswoman said: “Flybe can confirm that the above flight landed without incident at…
Just days before the third anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australia’s former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the search for the missing plane should continue at a location further south of where investigators believe the plane went down. The multimillion-dollar search for the Boeing 777-200 was suspended in January after no…
Qantas has completed its first real-world ‘tech trial’ of the airline’s inflight Internet system, during a three hour flight along the east coast between Sydney and Brisbane. The special charter flight came ahead of the Boeing 737 starting public trials in the coming weeks, and the results were promising, with Qantas reporting typical download speeds…
SpaceX statement: We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and…
With this latest delivery, Air Caraïbes becomes the first French airline to operate the A350 XWB. The aircraft, leased from AerCap, was delivered during a ceremony held at the Airbus Delivery Centre in Toulouse on 28 February. It will take off at 14:00 heading for Paris Orly Sud before embarking on its first commercial flight…
