Emirates continues to reopen international routes from the U.S. to Dubai with service to Los Angeles International Airport and to Boston Logan International Airport. Flights from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will operate twice a week beginning July 22, increasing to four times per week on August 2. Emirates flights from Boston Logan International Airport…
Dramatic video captured a melee that erupted at Puerto Rico’s international airport in San Juan after a drunken woman refused to get off a Philadelphia-bound plane, according to a report. The chaotic incident took place Monday at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, where the woman refused to disembark at the crew’s request, according to…
New cabin interior look for Hi Fly Airbus A340-300 9H-JAI, now able to offer more than 250 m3 of volume capacity and 50 tons of cargo. Since the COVID-19 crisis began, air cargo has been a vital partner in delivering much-needed medicines, medical equipment, and in keeping global supply chains functioning. Hi Fly has created…
The empty Airbus A380 flew over South Korea for a few hours a day for three days in May to enable pilots to practice taking off and landing. Airlines are taking extreme measures to survive the pandemic, with Asiana Airlines flying the world’s biggest commercial plane more than 20 times, going nowhere and carrying no…
National carrier Air India on Thursday said unlike other airlines that had laid off workers, none of its employees would lose job. “The recent decisions of the Air India Board regarding rationalisation of staff cost were reviewed at a meeting at the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday evening. “There has been no reduction in…
Tuesday 21 July, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines resumed passenger flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to China, Shanghai due to the relaxation of travel restrictions by the Chinese government. These flights are in addition to the cargo airlift that started on 20 April for the transport of medical supplies. Flights to mainland China were suspended at…
In a statement made late Wednesday, Russia’s National Defence Control Center indicated that naval radar systems had picked up the Poseidon and a US U-2S reconnaissance plane flying over the Black Sea. Separately, the Baltic Fleet detected a German Air Force P-3C Orion spy plane operating near Russia’s borders in the Baltic Sea. None of…
Iranian state television reported on Thursday a Mahan Air passenger flight was approached by an unidentified fighter jet in Syrian skies, forcing the plane to take emergency measures that caused injuries among the passengers. The flight was en route from Tehran to Beirut and was in Syrian airspace when the alleged incident occurred. Please reload…
KLM will retire its last three Boeing 747-400s in October. In March, KLM announced it would retire the seven total passenger airplanes that were in its fleet, a move prompted by the coronavirus crisis. The company had already planned to stop using the wide-bodied aircraft but was not planning to do so until 2021. But…
Ryanair is to close its base at Frankfurt Hahn Airport, and bases at Berlin Tegel and Duesseldorf airports are likely to shut down at the end of the summer after German pilots rejected proposed pay cuts, the Irish airline said on Tuesday. The moves, which will include an undisclosed number of pilot job cuts, come…
An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Fire broke out from the tail of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft around 4pm and developed rapidly. The cabin roof near the tail was burnt through and the plane became engulfed in heavy smoke. The Shanghai Fire Control Bureau said…
Australia’s national airline has said goodbye to an era of aviation that lasted half a century and encapsulated many major moments in the nation’s history. Qantas’ final 747-400 plane has taken off from Sydney Airport. It paraded off the tarmac with an arc of water jet streams to the applause of onlookers eager to mark…
