A Delta flight bound for Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Oklahoma City Thursday night after a male passenger assaulted a flight attendant and an air marshal, authorities said. The passenger, identified as 35-year-old Ariel Pennington of Washington, D.C., was booked into the Oklahoma City Jail on complaints of disorderly conduct…
Winds were far stronger than forecast at Manchester Airport with gusts up to 40 kt during Storm Arwen.
Kat Kamalani is a former flight attendant who has spilled the beans about many industry secrets. In a recent TikTok post, she claims cabin crew are not paid until the plane door is shut. A former flight attendant has surprised travel fans by revealing she never got paid while greeting and saying goodbye to passengers.…
Investment firm has ordered a total of 68 737 MAXs in 2021, including 737-8 and 737-8-200 models. Boeing and 777 Partners today announced the Miami-based investment firm will nearly double its 737 MAX order book with the purchase of 30 additional jets. The new order expands 777 Partners’ commercial aircraft portfolio to a total of…
A suspected member of the team that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, Khalid Alotaibi, was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris on Tuesday, judicial and airport sources said. UPDATE France released Saudi man held over links to killing of Jamal Khashoggi, it was a case of mistaken identity. Police sources told…
Thirty endangered white rhinos arrived in Rwanda on Monday after a long journey from South Africa in a Boeing 747, conservationists said, hailing it as the largest single transfer of the species ever undertaken. The group that consists of 19 females and 11 males aged between four years and 27 years was secured from &Beyond…
United States president, Joe Biden, has announced the country will tighten entry requirements in response to growing concerns over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. From Monday, passengers flying to the US will need to show a negative Covid-19 test performed within one day of departure. The country earlier recorded its first official Omicron case,…
A woman attacked two flight attendants on a Spirit Airlines flight to Nashville on Saturday night, was restrained by a fellow passenger. Airport police arrested a 42-year old female for public intoxication after the flight crew contacted officers on the ground at Nashville International Airport around 7 p.m., an arrest affidavit said. The flight took…
London’s Heathrow airport has reopened its Terminal 4 as a separate arrivals facility for countries on the government’s Covid “red list” as of Wednesday. Travelers arriving from red-list countries will be kept away from passengers in all other operational terminals, it said in a press release.In additional response to the risk posed by the Omicron…
Japan said Wednesday that it has asked airlines to suspend new bookings for flights entering the country through the end of the year, effectively sealing its borders for everyone, including Japanese citizens, unless they have a pre-existing reservation. The move, a response to the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, marks the first time during…
President Joe Biden urged Americans not to panic Monday as scientists and public health officials assess the threat of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, asking Americans to redouble their commitment to measures that could halt the spread of virus Biden’s Monday afternoon update on Omnicron represented the administration’s latest attempt to assure Americans that they…
