Emirates will be the first airline to receive Boeing’s all-new 777X aircraft, when it gets rolled out in 2020, a senior Boeing executive confirmed, putting an end to the debate on which of its seven customers were going to launch the US planemaker’s flagship aircraft. Emirates will receive its first 777X aircraft in mid-2020, racing…
A Maldivian seaplane crash landed, this Thursday. Associate General Manager of Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL), Hassan Areef reported to “Sun” that the seaplane fell into the Hulhule’ lagoon. He said all passengers onboard were unharmed, and that the MACL will be releasing additional information after investigation. The pilot and 14 tourists that were…
An Oman Air international flight #WY811 from Muscat to Bangkok was diverted to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad (India), due to a medical emergency. The health of a 63-year-old passenger travelling on the Oman Air flight #WY811 suddenly deteriorated during the journey. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (reg. A4O-SA) was diverted to Hyderabad airport and was rushed to…
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was “initially similar” to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday. The details were contained in a 440-page final report…
Klm along with Air France will not return to St. Maarten until the end of October 2017 following the devastation caused to Princess Juliana Airport by Hurricane Irma. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is adjusting its flight schedules to the Caribbean region from the start of the winter schedule 2017. Due to the current situation,…
United said Thursday that it has plans for Houston-Sydney service, an 8,596-mile flight that means the carrier will operate the three longest flights offered by a U.S. airline, as well as the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-longest flights in the world. The service, aboard a Boeing 787-9 seating 252 passengers, will begin Jan. 18.
The joint administrators of Monarch Airlines and Monarch Travel Group have this afternoon confirmed that some 1,858 employees have been made redundant. Of these, 1,760 were employees of Monarch Airlines, while 98 were employed by Monarch Travel Group. Mr Swaffield said the decision not to continue trading was made on Saturday night after estimating that…
A third Heathrow runway is set to be given the go-ahead within nine months, Chris Grayling says. The Transport Secretary is preparing to press ahead with the expansion of the airport, which is expected to be backed by MPs next year. He told the Standard: “Subject to the necessary consultation work and securing the backing of Parliament, we are…
EasyJet has reached out to Monarch employees, encouraging them to apply for jobs at the rival airline following the collapse of Monarch Airlines. As part of the airline’s latest and largest ever recruitment, there are still opportunities for 100 cabin crew in Luton, 400 in Gatwick as well as a number of direct entry Captains.…
The Civil Aviation Authority’s flying programme completed 61 flights in its first day of operation, returning passengers stranded by the collapse of Monarch Airlines to the UK. In total some 11,843 passengers were flown back to the UK, from 24 destinations.
Thousands of people have watched as a Qatar Airways aircraft flew in formation over Doha with the world-famous Red Arrows aerobatic display team, an event taking place as the airline celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The event, hosted by the British ambassador to the State of Qatar, Ajay Sharma, and Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar…
The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation is under way after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, with 110,000 customers to be brought back home on specially chartered planes. The accountants KPMG announced in the early hours of Monday that Monarch, Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand, had been placed into administration and that all further flights from the UK had…
