A Cessna 560 Citation Ultra, registration VH-PSU, carrying senior Queensland emergency services personnel was forced to turn back approximately half an hour into a flight between the Queensland state capital of Brisbane and the city of Townsville. On board the police jet were the Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart, Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan MP,…
The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading Widebody family, has embarked on a three-week Demonstration Tour to the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific region. During the tour, the A350-1000 flight test aircraft reg.F-WLXV (MSN065) will visit 12 destinations to demonstrate the aircraft’s exclusive features to airlines. The itinerary will see it travel over 30,000 nautical miles…
An AirAsia employee on duty travel died during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Bandung on Wednesday. In a statement on Wednesday night, AirAsia Malaysia said that Flight AK416 was diverted to Senai International Airport, Johor Bahru due to a medical emergency. “The passenger, an AirAsia employee on duty travel, received immediate medical attention upon…
Racing star Niki Lauda wins bid for Niki assets against British Airways holding IAG. The previously agreed sale of Niki to IAG fell through after German courts ruled that Austria is responsible for the insolvency proceedings. Niki’s creditors met on Monday to pick the best bid. “Laudamotion GmbH emerged from a transparent bidding process as…
Airbus is in talks to sell new A380 superjumbo planes to British Airways this year. The U.K. carrier, which currently has 12 A380s in its fleet, had said in the past that it was looking for six to seven second-hand A380s. Now it’s considering taking a larger number of new ones, said the people, who…
Pope Francis has married a couple of LATAM flight attendants on board a flight from Santiago, Chile, to the northern city of Iquique. Two LATAM Airlines flight attendants were on the trip from Santiago to Iquique and, as all crew members are given the opportunity to do, went up to the front of the aircraft…
Low-cost airline Norwegian has set a new record time for the fastest ever transatlantic flight by a subsonic passenger aircraft this week using the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (reg. G-CKHL). Norwegian flight #DY7014 from New York JFK to London Gatwick LGW completed the full duration of the flight in 5 hours and 13 minutes on Monday…
An airline passenger has expressed her disgust after claiming she could see the breasts and underwear of a flight attendant. Dr June Robertson, from New Zeland, frequently flies to Malaysia. But she was so shocked by the revealing uniforms worn by stewards of AirAsia that she wrote a furious letter of complaint to a…
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner got the federal approval it needs to fly commercially. The certification concludes a flight-test program that began last March for the first of the 787-10 carbon-fiber jets to be assembled solely at Boeing’s South Carolina factory, the Chicago-based planemaker said Monday. That clears one of two new Boeing airplanes that were on…
The delivery of Qatar Airways’ first Airbus A350-1000 has been delayed until February due to the “complex seat configuration” of the airline’s business class, its chief executive said on Monday. The major Middle East carrier is the launch customer of Europe’s largest twin-engined passenger jet and was scheduled to receive its first of 37 on…
Boeing designed the compact bathrooms that way to squeeze in about a dozen more seats in the cabin than in older versions of the 737 jets. But in a private meeting a week ago with American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker, a group of flight attendants complained about the design of the lavatories on the…
A homeless woman sneaked on to a British Airways jet and flew from America to London without a ticket or passport, police said last night. Marilyn Hartman – described as a “serial stowaway” – got through security at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and boarded a flight to London Heathrow. Staff realised she had no ticket…