Today is the last Day of Air Berlin. Last flights to land will be (local time): #AB6048 MUC-DUS STA 20:40 #AB8719 FCO-DUS STA 22:45 #AB8749 LIN-DUS STA 22:45 #AB6210 MUC-TXL STA 22:45 Dusseldorf Airport will send out the Fire Department to welcome the the last flight from Rome with a water salute. Visitors Terrace will…
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) has issued a travel advisory for African-Americans travelling on American Airlines, stopping short of calling for a boycott. They advise that African-Americans “… exercise caution, in that booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions. This travel advisory…
A drunk British woman who was restrained as her violent outburst on a flight to Mexico forced the plane to divert to Canada has been jailed for 20 days. The passenger faced charges of ‘disturbing the peace, mischief, and jeopardising the safety of an aircraft’, following the incident on Sunday. The plane made an emergency…
A man was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Miami International Airport, airport officials announced on Twitter. A spokesman said the man was making threatening remarks about the airport at the Concourse D check-in area. Local news reporter was inside Concourse D at about 12:30 p.m., when he said at least six Miami-Dade police officers held the suspect down as…
Karon Grieve was hoping Jet2 flight to Crete to be fairly quiet this last Sunday as it’s the tail-end of the season and she imagined that not many people were headed to the Greek island… and she was right! “I asked the girl at check-in how many were going to be flying and she said I should…
New security measures including stricter passenger screening take effect on Thursday on all U.S.-bound flights. The new measures, which could include short security interviews with passengers at check-in or at the gate, would be in place by Thursday. . They will affect 325,000 airline passengers on about 2,000 commercial flights arriving daily in the United…
Lufthansa plans to dissolve the brand name of Austrian based Niki The German flag-carrier wants to fully integrate Air Berlin’s subsidiary Niki into its low-cost airline Eurowings. On September 26th, Lufthansa’s Supervisory Board approved a one billion Euro investment for the acquisition of up to 61 aircraft for Eurowings. Niki operates short and medium haul flights from…
Boeing began production on Monday of it’s first 777X wide-body plane at it’s factory in Everett. Wings for the new plane will be produced at the Composite Wing Center at the Boeing Everett factory. A traditional airplane wing is aluminum. The new 777X wing is much larger and lighter and it made of a carbon fiber composite. The…
The FAA conducted 10 tests of laptops inside of suitcases. A heater was set against the lithium ion cell to force the battery to overheat. In one of the tests, a can of aerosol dry shampoo was in the suitcase. The currently permitted shampoo ignited from the overheating battery and caused a fire that could…
Super Typhoon Lan is threatening Japan with winds of up to 155mph (250km/h) on Sunday and Monday. Please reload the page for updates… UPDATE 16:22 UTC Tokyo Haneda Airport is reporting winds of 46kts+, flights to HND are diverting/returning. UPDATE 15:55 UTC Tokyo Haneda Airport is reporting winds of 31kts+, flights to HND are diverting/returning.…
Air Berlin to fire around 4000 employees in the coming weeks, if no additional buyers can be found. In an interview with Rheinische Post, Air Berlin liquidator Frank Kebekus said the airline may will have to fire around 4000 employees in late October/early November. “I expect that in the end of October/beginning of November, we will…
Gusts of over 70mph were recorded on Saturday morning, with forecasters warning of the potential for flooding, power cuts and transport disruption. Please reaload the page for updates… UPDATE 14:50 UTC Flights to Shannon and Cork are holding and diverting UPDATE 14:02 UTC Several flights to Bristol Airport are performing go-arounds due to high winds…
