A passenger with no flying experience successfully landed a small plane in Florida Tuesday afternoon after his pilot suffered a medical emergency. The incredible aviation accomplishment happened at Palm Beach International Airport with the help of air traffic controllers, according to WPBF-TV. “I’ve got a serious situation here,” the Cessna Caravan passenger was reportedly heard…
Vueling, an airline owned by IAG, will open a new sales channel in the metaverse. The new channel will be up and running before the end of the year, and everything purchased in the metaverse will be usable in the real world and will be the same as a physical airline ticket. This is an…
Taking elegance to new heights. Every day, Air France celebrates the French art of living, making each trip an experience in itself. A know-how that takes elegance and refinement to new heights… the little touches and that “je ne sais quoi” so characteristic of France.
A Spirit Airlines aircraft suffered an incident on takeoff. As a Spirit Airlines flight took off from Barranquilla, the plane had hit a bird. The crew decided to make an emergency stop. As it was a bit scary and rough for passengers, a lady in first row was really afraid of the situation when the plane…
EasyJet plans to remove seats on some of its A319s this summer, so that it can operate flights with fewer cabin crew. By removing seats on the back row of their A319 planes, the company will be able to fly with a smaller amount of crew – going down from four staff to three. As…
Today’s air parade was suddenly cancelled altogether in the five biggest Russian cities. In Moscow, the air part of the parade was canceled due to “bad weather”. RIA Novosti was informed by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. The air parade did not take place in Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, St Petersburg…
British YouTube travel blogger Benjamin Rich, who specializes in remote and sometimes dangerous parts of the world, has been arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday. Dmitry Rogozin said in an online post that Rich – whose Bald and Bankrupt channel has 3.53 million…
A dad was the captain of his daughter’s first flight as Southwest pilot. Mackenzie was a kid the first time she rode on a Southwest plane flown by her dad, Captain Kyle. Last month, they had another special “first” together: sharing the flight deck for Mackenzie’s first flight as a Southwest pilot! Now that’s some…
A Ukrainian businessman is turning scraps of wreckage from a downed Russian fighter plane into souvenir key. A Ukrainian makes keychains from Russian fighter plane wreckage to fund war effort. “Many of my friends tell me: ‘US$1,000 – nobody will give you this for this piece of metal, it’s crazy,’” said Iurii Vysoven, founder of…
The Qantas Group has today announced several major fleet decisions that will reshape its international and domestic networks over the next decade and beyond. These decisions will also improve journeys for millions of people every year, and create over 1,000 jobs as well as many career progression opportunities at the national carrier. Domestically, Qantas will…
About 5 million honeybees bound for Alaska last weekend got waylaid when Delta Air Lines routed them through Atlanta Most of the bees died after being left for hours in crates on the ground during hot weather. The bees were the first of two shipments ordered by Alaska beekeeper Sarah McElrea from a distributor in…
Hazel McCallion, one of the longest serving mayors in Canadian history, has accepted a three-year contract extension as a Greater Toronto Airport Authority board member. Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said in a news release this week the 101-year-old was reappointed to the GTAA board as a director. She was first appointed to the GTAA…