Qatar Airways have announced that it will up gauge their Doha-Guangzhou service with the introduction of an Airbus A380 on the route. This will make the Chinese airport the 4th A380 destination in Qatar’s network. The airline currently operate their A380 aircraft on routes to London Heathrow, Bangkok and Paris. The A380 flights are to…
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is delighted to announce the return of another holiday operator to the Airport with the news that Bulgarian specialist operator Balkan Holidays is to operate to the Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria with a weekly departure to Bourgas for Summer 2017. Balkan Holidays last operated from Liverpool ten years ago and…
United Airlines continues to expand the number of cities it serves in interior China with the launch of new nonstop flights to Xi’an on Sunday, May 8. The flights from United’s Asia-Pacific gateway in San Francisco will be the first trans-Pacific service to Xi’an operated by any airline, and United will be the first U.S.…
EVA Air will launch nonstop flights from Chicago to Taipei on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. To start, the airline will operate four flights a week, using one of its latest-model, Wi-Fi equipped Boeing 777-300ERs comfortably configured for 333 passengers in Royal Laurel business, Elite premium economy and Economy Classes. EVA is also giving passengers more…
Lufthansa have announced that their special Fanhansa jet, one of their Boeing B747-8 aircraft, will continue to have it’s livery on the jet until the 2018 World Cup to take the German national football team to each destination. It also be transporting the team to France for the Euro 2016 tournament. However, the Fanhansa livery…
Irish carrier CityJet have just released a picture of their first brand new Sukhoi SuperJet. They said via their social media that the aircraft was “nearly ready”. The aircraft is currently sat in Venice. This will now count the start of the airline’s fleet modernisation after they ordered 15 of the SuperJets. CityJet have not…
An Ivy League economist was pulled off an American Airlines regional jet from Philadelphia to Syracuse after a fellow passenger incorrectly identified the mathematical equations he was scrawling for foreign script, and suspected him of terrorism. An unidentified woman sitting next to him tried to strike up a conversation with Guido Menzio as they waited…
Lots of flights during May could be hit by strikes by cabin crew working for Thomas Cook. More than 1,000 crew began voting yesterday on industrial action over what they say are ‘dangerous’ cuts to break periods. Under the new rules by Thomas Cook, the cabin crews rest times have been halved to 20 minutes during an 11 hour…
Star Alliance partners Air Canada and Avianca Brasil announced today they have implemented the first stage of a codeshare agreement. Initially, Air Canada will sell, in all its channels, tickets for flights operated by its partner Avianca Brasil under the AC code, significantly expanding its distribution in the local Brazilian market. The agreement includes flights…
It is something every traveller is familiar with – turning off your phone when a plane is taking off or landing, or at least switching it to flight mode. But one British passenger found out the costly way of ignoring the crew’s request. Aaron McWilliam was flying from Amsterdam to Exeter last December on a Flybe jet when he refused…
A Qantas flight bound for Perth was delayed at Melbourne Airport on the weekend after a suspicious network was found. Security concerns were raised on Saturday at Melbourne Intl Airport after a Wi-Fi network called ‘Wi-Fi hot spot called ‘Mobile Detonation Device’ delays flight’ was found by a passenger. The Qantas flight from Melbourne…
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the Airbus A350-900 for ETOPS (Extended-range Twin engine aircraft Operations) ‘beyond 180 minutes’ diversion time. This approval means that when the first FAA-affiliated operators start to take delivery of their A350s in 2017 they will be able to serve new direct non-limiting routings, compared with a standard…
