Striking British Airways cabin crew have announced a further two weeks of action for the first half of August in their battle over pay and sanctions at the airline. Crew in the lower-paid mixed fleet working out of Heathrow started the latest 14-day walkout on 19 July, their 46th day on strike since January, meaning…
An Air India Express flight from Mangalore was diverted to Mumbai on Tuesday evening after a 22-year-old male complained of a stomach ache. Flight AI 885 departed Mangalore at 6.16pm with a total of 72 passengers onboard. Within an hour of the flight the passenger started complaining of stomach pain, suspected to be due to…
British Airways has finally released a new onboard safety video. The video, which will start appearing on British Airways flights from September 2017 is a world apart from the current animated production. Featuring Bafta and Emmy winning actor, Asim Chaudhry, as a loveable but slightly incompetent director, the video plays out through a series of…
A lengthy dispute between Air France management and pilots ended Monday after the pilots backed the establishment of a lower-cost subsidiary to try to compete with budget airlines and Gulf carriers. Air France-KLM CEO Jean-Marc Janaillac praised the pilots’ “spirit of responsibility” after they agreed to the creation of a cheaper medium- and long-haul service…
A lot of flights were holding at London Gatwick due to Air Canada Rouge Boeing 767 flight #RV1925 to Toronto burst a tyre on takeoff. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 16:16 UTC Runway 08R is now open! UPDATE 16:14 UTC Thomas Cook #MT561 to London Gatwick is now declaring an emergency due to fuel outage…
A disgusted easyJet passenger has complained after having to sit next to a man and woman while they had sex. Gary Power posted his gripe to the airline’s Facebook page after boarding his flight to Alicante from Manchester Airport. The tourist said he boarded #U21917 at 7.10am on Monday and was revolted when the man…
A video showing an Emirates flight attendant of flight from Dubai to Barcelona pouring a glass of champagne back into the bottle has caused a stir after it was posted online. The footage was recorded by Russian passenger Yevgeny Kaymov who unknowingly filmed the incident on a business class flight to Dubai. He posted the video to…
A New Zealand tourist died on Wednesday afternoon after hitting her head on a concrete block behind the Princess Juliana International Airport SXM fence on the Maho Beach side. Tourists gather on a daily basis to experience jet blasts from aircrafts taking off from the runway. Reports suggest that the woman was holding onto the…
Heathrow reinforced its bid for expansion as new figures showed that the hub handled a record 77 million passengers in the year to June. Heathrow welcomed a record 6.76 million passengers in June, up 2.3 per cent from June 2016, and boosting the number of passengers travelling through the UK’s hub in the past 12…
A passenger claims American Airline staff saw a man masturbating beside her when she slept and failed to wake her up and moved her to safety. Chloe King was on a flight to Paris when the man in the seat next to her started touching himself inappropriately as she slept. Another woman in the row…
A flight from Austin to Chicago ended abruptly Tuesday and returned to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport after two people reportedly got into a fight in mid-air. Southwest Airlines turned the flight around and landed safely at ABIA shortly before 5 p.m. Passenger Lisa Berkman, aboard Southwest Flight #WN3590, said the pilot told them one passenger reached…
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has canceled flights to Ukraine it had planned to start in October. According to a Ryanair statement July 10, the decision was made “following Kiev airport’s failure to honor a growth agreement reached at the Ministry of Infrastructure with airport officials and the current airport director general, Pavlo Riabikin, in March of this year.”…
