Cathay Pacific is asking its entire workforce to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave, its CEO announced Wednesday. On Tuesday, the carrier said it planned to cut about 30% of capacity over the next two months, including about 90% of flights to mainland China. The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which…
The last search for MH370 was conducted by Ocean Infinity, who consulted with official and independent researchers and subsequently scanned the seabed along the 7th arc as far north as S25° latitude. Since then, independent researchers have continued to analyze the available data to understand what areas of the seabed are the most likely, and…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft went into fault protection mode on Tuesday January 28th. The fault protection stems from a maneuver attempted on January 25th. On that day, Voyager 2 was supposed to execute a scheduled rotation maneuver. The spacecraft rotates itself 360 degrees to calibrate one of its instruments. NASA says there was a delay…
American Airlines flight was delayed in Dallas-Fort Worth for at least an hour because a passenger donned a gas mask while wearing a black beanie. American flight #AA2212 to Houston was delayed an hour because of the incident. Panicked people had to wait for the guy to be escorted off.
European airlines can return to parts of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Wednesday, three weeks after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet amid an exchange of hostilities with U.S. forces in Iraq Following an EU aviation security risk group meeting, EASA said it was lifting temporary…
Confronting footage has emerged of the moment the C-130 water tanker crashed while fighting raging bushfires in NSW, killing the three US firefighters on board. Captain Ian McBeth, first officer Paul Clyde Hudson and flight engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr were on board the C-130 Hercules aircraft when it crashed near Peak View, northeast of Cooma,…
The New York Times pieced together a chronology of the three days following the shot down of the Boeing 737. TUESDAY The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps deployed mobile antiaircraft defense units around a sensitive military area near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport. WEDNESDAY The central air defense command issued an alert that American warplanes had taken…
British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China as concerns grow over the coronavirus outbreak. The airline, which operates daily flights to Shanghai and Beijing from Heathrow, has also suspended bookings on its website until March following advice from the Foreign Office warning against “all but essential travel”. “We apologise…
A woman angry about not being allowed to board a plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was arrested after allegedly mentioning an explosive device, resulting in hundreds of travelers having to evacuate part of one concourse. A police bomb squad responded Friday but found no device and the airport soon returned to normal though…
A top CIA chief who orchestrated the assassination of an Iranian general was killed when a US military plane crashed in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, Tehran has claimed. The crashed plane in the east of Afghanistan was a Bombardier E-11A from the US Air Force. De Andrea, who was responsible for the assassination of Iran’s…
Days after Boeing warned airlines that they shouldn’t count on the 737 Max flying again before midyear, the FAA said it might move faster than that. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson spoke Friday with senior officials at Southwest (LUV), United (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL), the three US carriers that own the plane, to reiterate that…
Following the demise of Thomas Cook Airlines, the Polish Aviation Group PGL, owner of LOT Polish Airlines, is set to take over German leisure carrier, Condor. The deal was announced in Poland and should be finalized by April 2020 once regulatory approval is granted by the European Commission.
