A sea of baggage has accumulated at Heathrow’s Terminal 2 after a technical malfunction left thousands of travellers separated from their bags. Some outbound travellers were forced to take off without their suitcases while others have suffered significant delays at check-in, the airport said in a statement. Those arriving at T2 faced a two-hour wait…
A first Qantas A380 has started to be dismantled. The A380 (reg. VH-OQF) is currently being dismantled in the Mojave Desert, California. The parts recovered from the A380 will be used as spare parts, and kept in Australia as at Los Angeles airport. The aircraft was delivered in January 2010 and stored in California since…
A plane triggered the air defences of six NATO members before landing on Thursday (9 June) in a small airfield in Bulgaria, whereby the pilot and passengers promptly disappeared. Fighter jets of several countries were scrambled to intercept the mysterious plane, trying to initiate contact with the pilot, without success. The plane was reportedly spotted…
London Heathrow Airport has reopened Terminal 4 two years after it was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It has been shut to passengers since May 2020 as international travel restrictions cut the amount of airport traffic. The move led to airlines such as Air France, Etihad and KLM moving to Terminal 2. Piccadilly and…
A Venezuelan-registered Boeing 747 red-flagged by the United States has been seized at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza airport. According to reports, twelve of the cargo aircraft occupants were of Venezuelan nationality while five others held Iranian passports. The Venezuelan-registered Boeing 747-300 of the Emtrasur company, red-flagged by the United States, has been seized at Buenos Aires’…
Airbus is preparing the first flight of its Airbus A321XLR aircraft. The aircraft, with serial number MSN1100, is expected to perform its first test flight from Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport this week. The first prototype performed its Rejected Take-off Test ahead of its first flight which is scheduled for Wednesday. The Airbus A321XLR will have a range…
London’s Heathrow Airport said on Monday that May was its busiest month since March 2020 as it dealt with 5.3 million passengers, 79% of 2019 levels. Cancelled flights, long queues and staff shortages at UK airports disrupted the travel plans of British holidaymakers during the Jubilee half-term break. However, Heathrow said its check-in generally worked…
Comair’s business rescue practitioners have lodged a court application on Thursday to convert the business rescue proceedings into liquidation proceedings. This is because the company could not raise the necessary funding to continue with operations. In a notice, published on Thursday, the BRPs advised creditors that they no longer believe there is a reasonable prospect…
Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport has cancelled a quarter of Thursday morning flights after staff announced a strike. Unionised employees will walk off the job between 7am and 2pm on Thursday morning as part of a protest against low wages. “We demand a 300 euro raise for all,” the CGT union said in a statement, pointing…
U.S. authorities moved Monday to seize a $350 million Boeing jet believed to be one of the world’s most expensive private airplanes from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. A federal magistrate judge signed a warrant authorizing the seizure of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that authorities said was worth less than $100 million before a lavish customization.…
Gatwick airport has apologised to a disabled woman who was left stranded on a plane for more than an hour and a half after staff did not come to help her. Victoria Brignell, from west London, who is paralysed from the neck down, was returning home on Saturday after a holiday in Malta. She was…
Heathrow Airport has ordered airlines to artificially cap the number of passengers onboard flights over the next two months to prevent potentially dangerous overcrowding in its terminals. The West London airport reportedly wants to slash the number of passengers passing through Terminal 5, the largest of only four terminals at Heathrow, by as many as…
