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.”…
Canadian leisure carrier Air Transat is to take 10 Airbus A321neo LRs on 12-year lease from Dublin-based lessor AerCap, making it the North American launch operator for the LR variant. The aircraft will be delivered between spring 2019 and fall 2020, replacing Air Transat’s Airbus A310s, which will be gradually retired from the fleet. “The…
Seven hundred workers, including baggage handlers, cleaners and customer service agents at three New York-area airports are going on strike. The airport workers at Newark Liberty International Airport walked off the job at 9 p.m. Tuesday in a labor dispute with their employer, PrimeFlight, a subcontractor for several airlines. The workers are alleging unfair labor…
One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists have said. Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has…
easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has today announced that it will start flying from Southampton Airport for the first time with the launch of a new winter only service to Geneva and will launch eight other new routes from across the UK later this year. The new routes are: Bristol to Stockholm – commences 31 October,…
An evacuation at a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control center in Leesburg, Va. delayed hundreds of flights around the region Monday night, authorities said. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said there were ground stops at all three major airports in the region, meaning inbound flights didn’t take off from their origins for hours. Loudoun…
The vintage fighter plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in a field near Duxford Imperial War Museum was an American Mustang owned by the museum. Officials at the museum have confirmed that one of the planes was forced to make an emergency landing. One witness reported that the plane, the P51d Mustang…
A couple have been caught on camera leaving a toilet on a Virgin Atlantic plane after appearing to have sneaked off for a mid-air romp. This video has been shared on Friday by Virgin Atlantic on its Facebook page. The footage was filmed on July 4 by another passenger on a flight from London Heathrow to Miami.…
At least 40 turtles wandered out of Jamaica Bay and onto the tarmac around 4:45 p.m., briefly delaying flights. It turns out this is a common problem at JFK. During mating seasons, these turtles like to lay their eggs in the sand near the airport runway. The airport has specialists on staff who help to…
Delta Airlines flight #DL129 from Seattle to Beijing was allegedly forced to return to the US after the 23-year-old man also assaulted a flight attendant on the plane. When the cabin crew member tried to stop him after he attempted to open the exit 45 minutes in to the flight, he is said to have…
United Airlines has apologized after reselling a toddler’s seat to a standby passenger on a flight from Houston to Boston late last week. As a result of the incident, Shirley Yamauchi, the child’s mother, was forced to hold the toddler in her lap for the duration of the nearly four-hour-long flight. Forcing the 27-month-old toddler to sit…
