Delta Air Lines has grounded flights departing from airports around the world following a “computer outage”. Flights already in the air are operating normally, the carrier added. “Customers should check the status of their flight before heading to the airport while the issue is being addressed,” Delta tweeted. UPDATE Delta says “large-scale cancellations are expected…
Airbus Group (EADSF.PK, EADSY.PK) announced the company has been informed by the SFO that it has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in the civil aviation business of Airbus Group relating to irregularities concerning third party consultants. Airbus Group stated that it continues to cooperate with the SFO on the investigation.…
Virgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST). To get the paperwork, which allows Virgin Galactic to use its ship for commercial operations. The FAA looked into the vehicle’s system design, safety features…
Qantas Airways have said that they do not want the remaining 8 Airbus A380s it still has on order because of sufficient demand being met on the current network that they already have. “Our intention is that we’re not taking those aircraft,” Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said Friday at an airline conference in Brisbane,…
A plane was forced to make a diversion after a man allegedly claimed to have a gun on board a holiday flight. Passengers were left terrified when crew members rushed through the plane as it suddenly began its descent and touched down more than 600 miles away from its destination. The man, who was sitting…
A cargo Boeing 737-400 from Paris (CDG) suffered a runway excursion at Bergame-Orio al Serio (Italy) on landing at around 4h local time. The Boeing chartered by DHL failed to stop on runway 28 and continued to a highway. The crew (two pilots) were not injured. The crew, composed of a captain and a first officer, was unhurt.…
Two Indigo aircraft escaped colliding with one another over Guwahati, leaving some passengers and crew members shaken and needing medical aid, officials said on Wednesday. At least four passengers and two cabin crew were shaken by the near disaster, a spokesman for Indigo Airlines said. The passengers complained of giddiness while the cabin crew needed…
A Virgin America passenger has been criminally charged with sexually touching a sleeping female passenger on an overnight flight to Newark from Los Angeles last week, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. The passenger, aged 58 from India, was charged with one count of abusive sexual conduct aboard Flight 170 which departed on July 29, U.S. Attorney…
The airline said flight WS142 landed safely in Thunder Bay at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday after a phone caller warned there was an explosive device on board the Boeing 737-type aircraft. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Ottawa at 11:45 p.m. Thunder Bay police said in a statement “125 passengers and the crew … were…
This week marked the official start of LATAM Airlines Brazil’s special operation for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games throughout Brazil’s main airports. A total of more than 100 special operational initiatives were developed to efficiently serve the fans and delegations, and maintain service quality for all passengers travelling with the airline in the…
Two passengers were ordered off a flight to Ibiza by police after they started fighting before the plane took of this morning. Officers were called and stormed onto the RyanAir plane after the two men were seen ‘squaring up to each other’. The plane, which was due to leave Manchester Airport at 6.50am today, was delayed…
