Boeing announced today that its Board of Directors has named current Chairman, David L. Calhoun, as Chief Executive Officer and President, effective January 13, 2020. Mr. Calhoun will remain a member of the Board. In addition, Board member Lawrence W. Kellner will become non-executive Chairman of the Board effective immediately. The Company also announced that…
A Qantas Airbus A380-800 flew the longest ever A380 flight few days ago. On December 19th, a Qantas Airbus A380-800 flew the longest ever A380 flight from Dresden to Sydney. The aircraft (reg. VH-OQH) called ‘Reginald Ansett’ took 18 hrs and 26 minutes and covered 16,105 kms to reach Sydney. But this flight was not…
Friday December 20, around 11:40 am, a Boeing 767-400ER was intercepted by French fighter jets. A sonic boom was heard by many people in Gironde and Dordogne at midday, at the Southwest of France as Rafale fighter jets crossed the sound barrier. According to our sources, the fighter jets were scrambled to intercept United flight…
A 16-year-old Moroccan, was arrested after being found on board the aircraft, back to June, at Orly airport. Since his arrest, the adolescent has been in detention. According to sources, the young man wanted to return home, after having lived a few months on the street in the Paris region. “His idea was to take…
An out-of-control pickup truck plowed into Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport overnight, causing a significant amount of damage but avoiding any people inside. The crash happened Thursday around 2:51 a.m. in the baggage claim area. The speeding truck smashed through a cinderblock wall, according to Fredrick Piccolo, president and chief executive officer of the airport. The white…
Heathrow has said its project to build a third runway has been delayed by “at least 12 months” after the aviation regulator rejected its spending plans. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has refused Heathrow’s request to lift spending from £650m to £2.4bn before it even gets planning consent. The CAA is concerned passengers will end…
Southwest Airlines said on Tuesday it was cancelling nearly double the number of flights through April than it has done since the Boeing 737 MAX grounding last March amid uncertainty over when the aircraft will fly again. The low-cost carrier said on Tuesday it was removing roughly 300 weekday flights from its total peak-day schedule…
The Air France–KLM Group has firmed up an order for 60 Airbus A220-300 aircraft to modernise its single-aisle fleet. The aircraft are intended to be operated by Air France. Air France-KLM currently operates a fleet of 159 Airbus aircraft.
An Irish company that buys and leases airplanes sued Boeing Co. in the U.S. to void contracts for almost two dozen 737 Max aircraft and to demand at least US$185 million in damages, citing design flaws that led to two deadly crashes. Timaero Ireland Ltd., based in Dublin, sued Boeing on Tuesday in federal court…
Two brothers have been sentenced in the New South Wales Supreme Court today for attempting to smuggle a homemade bomb onto an Etihad flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi in 2017. Earlier this year two juries found Khaled Khayat, 51, and Mahmoud Khayat, 34, guilty of conspiring to plan a terrorist act after they placed…
Anyone traveling with Norwegian can now offset their personal CO2-footprint with a seamlessly integrated technology solution from climate tech company CHOOOSE. The solution is also the first-ever from an airline to be approved by the United Nations initiative ‘Climate Neutral Now’. CHOOOSE and Norwegian have introduced a new solution to address the pain points of traditional carbon offsetting programs.…
