Turkish Airlines flight #TK1019 from Istanbul to Pristina (Kosovo) has ran out runway probably due to rain. Passengers were evacuated across field from the (Boeing 737-800 reg. TC-JFY). From first sources, no one was injured.
History was made on Monday when the very first Comair flight departed at 08:30 from OR Tambo International Airport to the remote Atlantic ocean island of Saint Helena. It landed at St Helena at 14:14 South African time, and is to depart for the return flight at 15:30, to land again at OR Tambo at…
Great inaugural flight from Gatwick @Monarch having confidence in #Gibraltar pic.twitter.com/XVYS54j98I — Steven Linares (@StevenLinares4) May 1, 2016
Emirates has today (1st May 2016) expanded the network of destinations served by its flagship A380 aircraft with the launch of new scheduled A380 services to Taipei and Prague, becoming the first and only airline to operate an A380 into these two cities. The A380 service from Dubai to Taipei landed at 16:50 local time…
The departure hall at Brussels international airport has partially reopened nearly six weeks after it was damaged during terrorist attacks on the Belgian capital. More than 30 people died in the March 22 terrorist attacks, in which suicide bombers blew themselves up in the airport departure hall and at the city’s Maelbeek underground railway…
The former CEO of United Airlines Jeff Smisek has received a $36.8 million severance package, following his resignation due to a federal corruption probe into United’s relationship with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Smirk’s pay included the $4.9 million severance, a $1.7 million reward as part of United’s annual incentive program…
Following the tentative approval from the Department of Transportation in the US for Norwegian Air International to begin operations to the United States from Cork and many other origins, there has been strong opposition to this tentative approval from Congress as well as other pressure groups. There is currently a piece of legislation to go…
Two Hungarian Air Force JAS-39C Gripens were scrambled when a British Airways flight from Dubai failed to contact Hungary’s civil air traffic control before entering the airspace. The highest level alert was ordered, the defence ministry said. The Gripens took off at 12.55pm to intercept and identify the aircraft upon entering Hungary’s airspace and secure its safe passage.…
LATAM Airlines Group, which is the partnership of TAM and LAN Airlines have revealed their new aircraft livery at simultaneous launch events in countries where the group operates! “In the coming days, aircraft with the new LATAM image will take to the skies, representing an historic milestone for the leading airline group in Latin America,”…
Boeing is set to deliver a record number of aircraft this year to Turkey’s flagship carrier Turkish Airlines, who will take delivery of 6 brand new Boeing B777-300ERs and 20 Boeing B737-800 Next Generation aircraft this year! “Turkish Airlines is one of the world’s ascendant airlines and an established global network carrier. It has achieved…
