Qantas is expected to begin selling its highly anticipated direct flights from Perth to London this week. The Australian carrier confirmed last December that it would offer the flights on its new 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft from March 2018, but details on the service, which will give Kiwis another stopover option, remain sketchy. That the Dreamliner will leave Perth…
Toulouse – Asiana Airlines of South Korea has taken delivery of its first A350-900, becoming the 12th airline to operate the world’s newest and most efficient Airbus twin engine widebody airliner. Asiana’s A350-900 is configured with a three class layout with a total of 311 seats, comprising 28 in Business Smartium, convertible to fully flat beds,…
Investigators searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 are confident that they have found the plane’s “most likely” final resting place. The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – the country’s national science agency – believes the wreckage is in an area 25,000 sq km north of the original 120,000 sq km…
An American Airlines staff member has been “removed from duty” after video emerged showing him in a heated confrontation with a passenger. In a video posted to Facebook a woman aboard the flight can be seen crying with a child in her arms after allegedly being hit with a stroller on flight AA591 from San…
Airbus has delivered the first-ever A321neo. The latest generation aircraft powered by CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines was handed over to U.S. airline Virgin America, an all-Airbus operator, at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany. The A320neo significantly reduces noise levels, generating only half the noise footprint compared to previous generation aircraft. Equipped with fuel-saving Sharklet wingtip…
Amidst the Syrian Civil War, Syrian Arab Airlines began Airbus A340-300 operations on April 12th, with a flight to Dubai as RB515. According to Flightglobal, the aircraft was welcomed in Damascus with a ceremony including the Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammoud. YK-AZA is a 16 year old Airbus A340-313X that was originally delivered to Cathay Pacific…
Air France takes delivery of its second Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft (registration F-HRBB) leaves Charleston, South Carolina on Tuesday April, 19 to Paris CDG. The Air France-KLM Group has ordered a total of 18 787-9s and seven 787-10s, with an additional 12 787-9s leased through AerCap. Air France’s Dreamliners accommodate up to 276 passengers, arranged…
All 12 people on board a police helicopter that crashed in Turkey have died. It disappeared ten minutes after taking off from a town in the east of the country. Seven police officers, a judge, a soldier and three crew members were on board. The interior minister says the accident was caused by bad weather…
After spending two weeks on vacation in Mexico, Richard and Linda Bell were on a United Airlines flight home from Houston to Calgary on Sunday. A scorpion fell from the overhead compartment and on to Richard. They didn’t immediately recognize the animal until a passenger sitting next to them pointed out that it was probably…
A mother and father forgot their 10-year-old daughter after leaving a plane in China without her on April 10. A flight attendant was forced to call the couple to remind them that they were missing their daughter. China Southern Airlines flight CZ3484 landed at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport after travelling from Chengdu. After all of…
