The luxurious plane used to transport Mexico’s former president around the world flew away permanently, in one of the first moves by the new president to rid the country of what he has derided as a symbol of excess. “We are selling all the planes and helicopters that the corrupt politicians used,” President Andres Manuel…
A Brazilian pilot is making headlines in the Arab world after he reportedly took a brief break from guiding the plane to convert to Islam as he flew a passenger jet above Saudi Arabia. Captain Amalo, a Brazilian pilot for an unidentified airline, was filmed reciting the Shahada, an Islamic creed accepting the religion, in…
Passenger Latsamy McAdoo from Miami was travelling from Bangkok to Koh Samui when she found out that she had the entire plane to herself. She was visiting family in Thailand and expected the plane to be full as it usually is – but this time it was empty. In a video from January this year,…
Airbus A220 has obtained certification by the European safety regulator. Both the A220-100 and -300 have been approved for low-weather minima autoland operations down to Category IIIa and IIIb. Category Decision height Runway Visual Range I > 200ft (60m) > 550 m (1800 ft) or visibility > 800m (2600 ft) II 100-200ft (30-60m) ICAO: > 350m…
Malaysia has told Singapore it intends to take back control of airspace that the city-state has managed since 1974 amid a dispute over a flight path to a secondary airport in Singapore, Malaysia’s transport minister said on Tuesday. Singapore has put in place a new instrument landing system at its small Seletar airport to be…
Lufthansa is currently in talks with Boeing and Airbus about further widebody orders. During conference in Berlin, CEO Spohr told Airlineratings.com at an interview: The Boeing 787 would be an alternative to ordering more A350s, for which we still have options. We would not operate A350s and 787s side by side at the same hub, but…
On November 11st, an amateur radio operator switched to the radio frequency of the Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Airport also known as Aeroparque, and issued a takeoff permit for the Aerolíneas Argentinas flight AR-1694. The intruder instructed the captain to take off in the direction of Bariloche on runway 13. The vector data was apparently…
Boeing delivered its 2,000th airplane to a Chinese operator on Friday, a 737 MAX for Xiamen Airlines. The milestone and the pace at which it was reached reflect the accelerating growth in the world’s largest commercial aviation market. Boeing delivered its first 1,000 airplanes to Chinese airlines over four decades. The next 1,000 Boeing jets…
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has surprised passengers on a scheduled flight to Turkey by turning up as the plane’s co-pilot. The Dutch monarch was the co-pilot on duty on KLM flight #KL1613 from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to Ataturk Airport in Istanbul on Saturday. Only the KLM crew were notified in advance of the king’s…
A Japanese pilot found to be more than nine times over the legal alcohol limit before a scheduled flight from London Heathrow in October has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, police said Thursday. Katsutoshi Jitsukawa, 42, an employee of flag carrier Japan Airlines, was scheduled to fly from Heathrow to Tokyo on October…
Indigo Partners LLC and Wow air, the Icelandic airline based in Keflavik (Reykjavik), have agreed in principle for Indigo to invest in Wow. Following successful completion of due diligence, the parties would work to close as soon as practicable. Wow’s CEO and primary shareholder, Skuli Mogensen, would remain a principal investor in Wow upon completion of…
If you’re sick of your car, tired of catching the train and you don’t like hopping on and off commercial airliner flights, then perhaps it’s time you considered owning your own private aircraft. If you’ve got the money to pay for such a lavish form of transportation, why not? By investing in such a venture,…
