At least five crew members and one passenger needed medical treatment after their Boeing 777 ran into severe turbulence on Monday’s Thai Airways flight from Jakarta to Bangkok. Airline staffer Kru P’Birth uploaded photos on Facebook that showed the messy aftermath of the clear-air turbulence, which caused service trolleys, luggage and other personal items to…
Meet Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, Vietnam’s first female self-made billionaire. Much of her net worth comes from her company VietJet Air, which on its website calls itself a “dynamic, innovative airline.” But some might have other words for what it is her company is doing. Indeed, VietJet isn’t known so much for its CEO as…
Delta Airlines reported yesterday their final results for March 2016’s quarter, including an adjusted pre-tax income of $1.56 billion, a $966 million increase over the March 2015 quarter. Net income was also adjusted to $1.0 billion or $1.32 per diluted share. The March adjusted pre-tax profit was an $11 million improvement over the December quarter…
The HNA Group, which is the Chinese Conglomerate of Hainan Airlines have supposedly been in talks with Monarch Airlines to acquire the airline as part of their global takeover spree. If the deal is completed, it would represent the biggest investment into a British Airline. Monarch is owned by Greybull Capital who got the airline…
Thomson, alongside their holiday package company First Choice have announced plans to expand into the Emirates Market. They have announced that they will be adding holiday packages to Dubai into their mid haul winter programme from December 2016. Tickets for flights are now on sale and the airline will operate flights to Dubai from London…
Emirates has announced it has placed an order with manufacturer Airbus for an additional two new A380 aircraft, to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2017. Emirates already operates the world’s largest fleet of Airbus A380s, with 75 in service and a further 65 on firm order.
Speaking in a press event in Dublin yesterday, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary stated that there is a “50-50” chance that he will retire as Ryanair CEO in 2019 when his 5 year contract expires. He insisted that he doesn’t plan to be hanging on until he’s 75 and said there is succession planning at Ryanair.…
Russian Su-24 jets buzz USS Donald Cook. The planes made 20 passes of the US Navy ship, according to officials, passing within 1,000 yards at an altitude of just 100ft. The American ship had just left the Polish port of Gdynia and was in the Baltic Sea about 70 nautical miles off Kaliningrad.
The families of those killed when pilot of a Germanwings flight crashed into the Alps are suing a US flight school who trained pilot Andreas Lubitz. The suit is about the flight school’s failure to properly screen Andreas himself. The crash occurred last year in March when Lubitz locked the plane’s captain out of the…
A Boeing 737 that took off from Portland International Airport was forced to make an emergency landing after losing pressurization, according to firefighters. Alaska Airlines flight 644 took off from Portland for Phoenix at 9:18 a.m. Wednesday. Firefighters said the plane lost pressurization at some point after takeoff. The Boeing 737 spent nearly two hours in…
