Lufthansa have announced that their special Fanhansa jet, one of their Boeing B747-8 aircraft, will continue to have it’s livery on the jet until the 2018 World Cup to take the German national football team to each destination. It also be transporting the team to France for the Euro 2016 tournament. However, the Fanhansa livery…
Irish carrier CityJet have just released a picture of their first brand new Sukhoi SuperJet. They said via their social media that the aircraft was “nearly ready”. The aircraft is currently sat in Venice. This will now count the start of the airline’s fleet modernisation after they ordered 15 of the SuperJets. CityJet have not…
An Ivy League economist was pulled off an American Airlines regional jet from Philadelphia to Syracuse after a fellow passenger incorrectly identified the mathematical equations he was scrawling for foreign script, and suspected him of terrorism. An unidentified woman sitting next to him tried to strike up a conversation with Guido Menzio as they waited…
A woman passed out on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco Sunday and was pronounced dead after the flight made an emergency landing in Montana, police say. The Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office says the flight made the emergency landing at the Billings Logan International Airport Saturday night. The woman has not been identified and…
Seventeen passengers were injured today when a Hong Kong Airlines flight hit severe turbulence over Borneo after taking off from the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an airport official said. The extreme weather forced Hong Kong-bound Flight HX6704 carrying 204 passengers and 12 crew to return to Denpasar. “Seventeen people were injured, 12 must be…
Friday, Singapore Airlines flight SQ16 to San Francisco was forced to make an emergency stop during takeoff when the controller told the pilots that Korean Air flight KE929 (Airbus A330-200) to St Petersburg (Russia) was crossing the runway without permission. Bounded for San Francisco, SQ16 flight, which was carrying 186 people on board, was running at 90-100 km/h as it…
#SpotVisual Jet airways flight 9W 2793 from Delhi to Indore skids off runway at Indore airport. All passengers safe pic.twitter.com/FV7561Ix3N — ANI (@ANI_news) 7 mai 2016
Star Alliance partners Air Canada and Avianca Brasil announced today they have implemented the first stage of a codeshare agreement. Initially, Air Canada will sell, in all its channels, tickets for flights operated by its partner Avianca Brasil under the AC code, significantly expanding its distribution in the local Brazilian market. The agreement includes flights…
An Etihad plane suffered interior damage and 31 passengers were injured after the passenger aircraft hit severe pockets of turbulence on a Jakarta bound flight, the airline confirmed on Wednesday. The Etihad Airways flight EY474 was en route from Abu Dhabi to Jakarta when it “encountered severe and unexpected turbulence about 45 minutes prior to…
It is something every traveller is familiar with – turning off your phone when a plane is taking off or landing, or at least switching it to flight mode. But one British passenger found out the costly way of ignoring the crew’s request. Aaron McWilliam was flying from Amsterdam to Exeter last December on a Flybe jet when he refused…
