The Guardian Australia is reporting that a Sydney airport worker may loose the sight in one eye after he was gouged by a Peregrine Falcon living in a Qantas hangar. Peregrine Falcons have been living in the hangar for more than 20 years and are a protected species. The falcons are also the world’s fastest…
United Airlines teamed up with Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker to offer customers exciting opportunities to experience the saga first-hand on the ground and in the air. United will unveil an all-new Star Wars-themed paint design on one of its Boeing 737-800 in November. There will also be a re-designed onboard experience to celebrate…
A Ukranian passenger who was travelling via a Qatar Airways flight reportedly passed away after a heart stroke. The Doha-Bangkok flight was then diverted to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad, where doctors examined the passenger and declared her brought dead. According to media reports, the passenger, identified as Galyna Konkina, was found…
Some 47 holidaymakers were ordered to leave a TUI plane hit by a stomach bug. Passengers were preparing to make their way home from Boa Vista, Cape Verde to Manchester Airport when flight crew intervened. Many of the passengers on the flight on Sunday, October 6 had been affected during a gastric illness during their…
Qantas has announced it will inspect 33 of it’s 737NG aircraft by the end of the week after a structural crack was found in a 737NG during a scheduled inspection. The inspection came after the FAA ordered inspections for pickle fork cracks on 737NGs within 7 days for those aircraft that have operated more than…
About third of Norwegian Air Dreamliner feet is currently out of service. Six of Norwegian Dreamliners are currently parked at Prestwick Airport due to Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine issues: LN-LNA (B788) LN-LNB (B788) LN-LND (B788) LN-LNG (B788) LN-LNH (B788) SE-RXY (B789) Rolls-Royce will take longer than expected to fix problems with its Trent 1000 engine,…
Indian budget airline IndiGo is close to placing a near-record order for over 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth at least $33 billion at notional catalogue prices to cement its position as India’s largest carrier by market share. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that IndiGo, part of InterGlobe Aviation, was putting the finishing touches…
A U.S.-led investigation into a series of engine failures on Airbus’s smallest jet, the A220, is studying whether a software change allowed unexpected vibrations that tore parts and forced three emergency landings. The airline Swiss halted its fleet of A220 jets for more than a day on Oct. 15 after a third flight in…
Boeing is cutting the production of 787 aircraft to 12 per month, down from 14, as the company experiences weaker demand as a result of the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Wednesday on the company’s third-quarter earnings call. This lower production level will begin in 2020 and…
Flights to nine destinations in Cuba, not including Havana, will be suspended by the Department of Transportation. The department issued a notice on Friday suspending US commercial flights from flying to the Cuban destinations. The notice will take effect on December 10. The announcement is another step in the Trump administration’s attempt to tighten the…
A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines is alleging in a lawsuit that two pilots streamed live video from inside an airplane bathroom to an iPad in the cockpit. Renee Steinaker, of Maricopa County, Arizona, claims in her lawsuit against Southwest and the two pilots that she discovered a livestream from a plane’s restroom in February…
British Airways has made its first flight into the new state-of-the-art Beijing Daxing International Airport. The flag-carrier thus becomes the first international airline to do so since the airport was officially opened last month. The maiden flight, on a Boeing 777-300, arrived on Sunday morning at 09:15 local time. British Airways will run a daily…
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