Qantas Freight has begun flying the world’s first Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter conversion aircraft. Qantas will operate it under a partnership with Australia Post. The first A321 freighter was converted by Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) and supplied to Qantas through lessor Vallair. The demand for Airbus A321 freighter is becoming popular among freighter operators. In order to…
Female passengers on 10 planes flying out of Doha were forced to endure invasive physical examinations, Australia’s foreign minister said Wednesday, greatly expanding the number of women previously thought affected. It was revealed on Sunday that women were removed from a Sydney-bound Qatar Airways flight in Doha earlier this month and forced to undergo vaginal…
Today, Emirates is sending an Airbus A380 to be dismantled in Tarbes, France. The 12-year-old Airbus A380 is sent to Tarbes after being repainted in white few months ago. The A380 (reg. A6-EDB) was performing its last commercial flight on 23 February from Muscat to Dubai. Since that, it performed a test flight on May…
A brawl happened on Spirit Airlines flight NK2322 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to Puerto Rico police, around 7pm yesterday, at the Luis Munoz Marin airport in San Juan, passenger Nyasy Veronique Payne “provoked an incident by acting in what witnesses called an agressive, hostile, & defiant behavior.” She hit…
Six Boeings 747 of the German airline Lufthansa have been temporarily parked in Twente Airport in The Netherlands since the summer. The six Boeing 747s are at risk of not being able to leave the airport due to a change from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT). The first two Boeing 747s landed to…
Air Transat operated the longest Airbus A321 commercial flight from Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, Canada to Athens, Greece on Monday. The flight TS690 touched down in Athens at 7:45 am on Monday, having covered 7,652 km. This one-time transatlantic flight was operated by an Airbus A321LR. The scheduled flight time was nine hours and…
Eight airplanes owned by state-owned regional airline SA Express will be auctioned next month – but most probably will not fly again. SA Express was placed under provisional liquidation in April this year, after its business rescue process failed. A group called FlySax, which includes some of the airline’s former employees, was selected as the…
Heathrow Airport currently has a host of destinations not requiring self-isolation by passengers on their return to the UK. Heathrow has also launched a rapid £80 test and hopes this could eventually allow thousands more people to safely jet off on holiday. Full list of destinations that do not require isolation on return to the…
Denver International Airport has re-started nonstop flights to and from parts of Europe. On Sunday Denver International Airport welcomed its first arrival from Europe since March. The Lufthansa A350 that departed from Munich, Germany, landed on a snowy runway. Denver International Airport reminds passengers that international COVID-19 travel restrictions are still in place and that…
Liberal Minister of Health Patti Hajdu has been a major proponent for masks, but was pictured not wearing one. Liberal Minister of Health Patti Hajdu was pictured not wearing a mask in a mandated area of the Toronto Pearson Airport on Sunday. According to the rules of the Airport, “face masks are mandatory for customers…
IATA is right to claim that ‘Safely delivering COVID-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global air cargo industry’. And Finnair Cargo is perfectly placed to help transport millions of vaccine doses as soon as they’re available, helping to bring as swift an end as possible to the coronavirus crisis. “We…
Passengers were forcibly subjected to body examinations after the discovery of a premature baby abandoned in the toilets at the airport in the Qatari capital, Doha, according to press reports confirmed by AFP. Doha International Airport reported that “medical staff had expressed concerns to airport officials about the health and well-being of a mother who…
