The pilots’ union Balpa has accused British Airways of undermining talks over proposed job losses by threatening to dismiss and re-hire its members under new contracts. The airline proposes to make 12,000 staff redundant, as it struggles with the impact of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 pilot roles at risk. British Airways said it…
Delta announced that it would suspend flights to eleven United States airports. The suspension for the US airports will come into effect on July 8, 2020. The following airports will no longer be served by DL: Aspen, Colorado (ASE) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (AVP) Bangor, Maine (BGR) Erie, Pennsylvania (ERI) New Bern/Morehead/Beaufort, North Carolina (EWN) Flint, Michigan…
The U.S. Transportation Department plans to issue a revised order in the coming days that is likely to allow some Chinese passenger airline flights to continue, government and airline officials said. On Thursday, China said it would ease coronavirus restrictions to allow in more foreign carriers, shortly after Washington said it planned to bar Chinese…
On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines (DL) retired its MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft earlier than previously planned. The carrier accelerated the retirement schedule of both aircraft as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Greece has suspended flights to and from Qatar after 12 passengers arriving from Doha to Athens tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Greek civil protection authority said 12 out of 91 people on a Qatar Airways flight that arrived on Monday had tested positive for Covid-19. “Following these epidemiological facts, flights from and to…
Airbus signalled it would sue airlines refusing to honour contracts in the face of the coronavirus crisis. The warning by Chief Executive Guillaume Faury in a news interview came as Airbus announced May deliveries well below normal, despite a partial recovery to 24 jets. Planemakers and lessors have received multiple requests from airlines to delay…
A Boeing 737-400 Special Freighter operated by Kalitta Charters II ran off runway at Rochester, New York a rejected take-off on 5 June Kalitta Charters II (on behalf of DHL) Boeing 737-400 (reg. N733CK) ran off runway 22 at Rochester Airport (KROC), NY during a rejected take-off coming to rest on the grass. The airport…
Ground stairs of SpiceJet airlines crashed into an IndiGo aircraft at at Mumbai Airport. The collision happened due to strong winds on Saturday. As per a statement released by the Mumbai Internation Airport Ltd, the only damage that the IndiGo aircraft sustained in the accident was to its wing and engine cowling. “Unpredictable cyclonic storms…
French BEA tweeted that technical work (downloading and decoding FDR & CVR data) has ended. However analysis will continue. Pakistan’s AAIB will publish at a later date a preliminary statement on the event based on downloaded data.
As Black Lives Matter protests roil cities across the United States and the world, a pilot seems to have drawn a fist in the sky as a gesture of solidarity to protestors. The piece of space art was created this yesterday afternoon in about two hours by a pilot who took off from Halifax airport…
Copa Airlines undoubtedly has that sinking feeling today after one of its 737s got stuck in the mud. The Boeing 737-700 was being pushed back at San Jose International Airport in Costa Rica when it skidded off taxiway. The right main landing skidded into the grass. The Boeing 737 (reg. HP-1374) was being pushed back…
A British Airways Dreamliner skidded off taxiway at Edmonton, Canada. As the Boeing 787-9 was preparing to perform flight #BA3587 to London Heathrow, the push back didn’t happened as planned. As the Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKP) was pushed back, the right main gear left the parking area into the grass. Work was in progress to pull…
