According to RT, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) has given the go-ahead for victims of the MH17 crash to file lawsuits against the Ukrainian Government after an internal investigation finds that MH17 was shot down intentionally. There have already been applicants to such lawsuits against the country. Four applicants named Tim Lauschet, Elena…
Delta Air Lines has grounded flights departing from airports around the world following a “computer outage”. Flights already in the air are operating normally, the carrier added. “Customers should check the status of their flight before heading to the airport while the issue is being addressed,” Delta tweeted. UPDATE Delta says “large-scale cancellations are expected…
This news article contains graphic information: Gatwick Express passenger on a train to Gatwick airport was ‘decapitated’ after his ‘head flew off’ when he stuck his head out of carriage window. The man was on board from the airport to London Victoria station and suffered a head injury when he was struck by an oncoming train. Police…
Airbus Group (EADSF.PK, EADSY.PK) announced the company has been informed by the SFO that it has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption in the civil aviation business of Airbus Group relating to irregularities concerning third party consultants. Airbus Group stated that it continues to cooperate with the SFO on the investigation.…
Virgin Galactic is one step closer to making us all space tourists: it just received its operator license from the US Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST). To get the paperwork, which allows Virgin Galactic to use its ship for commercial operations. The FAA looked into the vehicle’s system design, safety features…
Qantas Airways have said that they do not want the remaining 8 Airbus A380s it still has on order because of sufficient demand being met on the current network that they already have. “Our intention is that we’re not taking those aircraft,” Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said Friday at an airline conference in Brisbane,…
Emergency services have been called after a nose wheel-collapse at Baltimore Airport. The Southwest Airlines flight was departing the gate when the front wheel collapsed. Emergency crew were then called to help passengers off the disabled aircraft. The Boeing 737 was operating WN149 from Baltimore to Atlanta but has since been delayed by 4 hours.…
A Virgin America passenger has been criminally charged with sexually touching a sleeping female passenger on an overnight flight to Newark from Los Angeles last week, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. The passenger, aged 58 from India, was charged with one count of abusive sexual conduct aboard Flight 170 which departed on July 29, U.S. Attorney…
This week marked the official start of LATAM Airlines Brazil’s special operation for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games throughout Brazil’s main airports. A total of more than 100 special operational initiatives were developed to efficiently serve the fans and delegations, and maintain service quality for all passengers travelling with the airline in the…
Two passengers were ordered off a flight to Ibiza by police after they started fighting before the plane took of this morning. Officers were called and stormed onto the RyanAir plane after the two men were seen ‘squaring up to each other’. The plane, which was due to leave Manchester Airport at 6.50am today, was delayed…
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, today (2ndAugust 2016) announces the signing of a significant codeshare relationship with airberlin. Under the agreement, airberlin will place its marketing code on Flybe routes from Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster, Manchester and Southampton to Germany, as well as to Flybe’s new intra-European routes from Hannover to Lyon and Milan that commenced…
