Emirates announced today an 11% capacity increase to Manchester with the deployment of a third daily A380 on the route. As of 1st January 2017, the replacement of the Boeing 777-300ER will mean that all Emirates flights to Manchester will be operated by the iconic double decker aircraft. The airline also unveiled plans to swap…
The mother of a 16-year-old girl has hit out at Ryanair after her daughter was let on the wrong plane without her boarding pass being checked. And after complaining, the airline blamed the girl for not reading the display screens. A 16-year-old girl failed to have her boarding pass checked and accidentally boarded the wrong Ryanair…
According to RT, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) has given the go-ahead for victims of the MH17 crash to file lawsuits against the Ukrainian Government after an internal investigation finds that MH17 was shot down intentionally. There have already been applicants to such lawsuits against the country. Four applicants named Tim Lauschet, Elena…
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…
