Iran will send the black boxes from a downed Ukrainian airliner to Ukraine, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Eslami, said on Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down on Jan. 8 by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people in what Tehran termed a…
As Emirates retired its first A380 from its fleet, the airline will likely remove two other A380s. “You’ll start seeing A380s coming out of our fleet for various reasons, and we’ve always said this,” said Emirates Airline President Tim Clark last year. “We are in the process of [starting A380 retirements],” he said at the…
SAS will reactivate 10 more aircraft next month to operate 40 planes. SAS will increase services from all of its three Scandinavian capital hubs. Several destinations will be added from Copenhagen, including transatlantic services to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. International flights will resume from Oslo, for destinations in Spain and Croatia, as well…
The parts of the last Airbus A380 superjumbo are on way for the outskirts of Toulouse where the final assembly will take place. The gigantic fuselage sections of MSN 272 have traveled by land, sea, and river, in order to cross the 500 kilometers that separate the factory of Montoir-de-Bretagne, in Loire Atlantique, to the…
Norwegian Air will restart flights to and from UK airports from July 1 “as a result of increased customer demand”. The airline will resume flights on 76 routes halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back into service 12 of its mothballed aircraft on top of the eight already flying, as European countries reopen and…
Air France plans to offer about 8,300 staff incentives to leave the airline, in a bid to cut costs without stirring a political backlash after receiving a massive state bailout, people familiar with the proposal said. The Air France-KLM unit will seek the voluntary exit of around 300 pilots, 2,000 cabin crew and 6,000 ground…
A snake was found near the tyres of a private airline jet at Islamabad International Airport. The crew of a private airline became frightened when they saw a snake near the plane at the Islamabad International Airport. Civil aviation personnel removed the snake from the runway with the help of sticks. The plane bound for…
As air traffic is slowly resuming, the CEO of Eurocontrol gave more details. Eamonn Brennan said there were 7,810 flights in the network yesterday. it was 1,110 flights more than one week ago. Paris CDG was the busiest airport with 355 flights, followed by Frankfurt airport with 306 flights.
South African Airways has returned 17 aircraft to lessors so far. This is because the lessors have elected to initiate the termination of the leases, the state-owned airline’s business rescue practitioners confirmed on Friday. The aircraft returned include four A319s; three A340-300s; three A340-600s; five A330-200s and two B737s. The airline is now left with…
An aircraft collided with another plane on the tarmac, at Aberdeen International Airport, UK. Aberdeen International Airport Fire and Rescue vehicles were in attendance at the scene and emergency service workers could be seen cordoning off the area. A collision occurred between an ex-Flybe Bombardier Q400 aircraft and a Loganair Embraer 145. And, is now…
Beijing cancelled at least 1,255 inbound and outbound flights on Wednesday, representing nearly 70% of all services, as fears grow over a new coronavirus outbreak. City officials have urged residents not to leave the city, and several provinces have quarantined travellers from Beijing after more than 130 new cases were confirmed in the capital in…
The United States and China will each allow four weekly flights between the two countries, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday, easing a standoff on travel restrictions in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. government still hopes China will agree to restore full U.S. flight rights under their bilateral aviation agreement,…
