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…
Air Canada flight AC1159 from Toronto to Calgary was forced to make an emergency landing in Lethbridge Saturday after the aircraft’s windshield was cracked by hail. The A320 airbus with 144 passengers on board diverted to the closest airport, landing at Lethbridge about 210 kilometres south of Calgary.
Allow additional time if you travel to Schiphol airport. The authorities received a ‘signal’ of a terrorist threat. Police checks the traffic to the airport, this led to long queues and delays.
JetBlue’s first regularly scheduled flights to Cuba will begin next month, with fares beginning at $99 one-way. JetBlue’s first non-charter Cuba route will launch Aug. 31, when it begins nonstop service between Fort Lauderdale and the central Cuban city of Santa Clara. JetBlue initially will operate three flights a week before going to daily service on…
Boeing Co. said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it may stop production of the 747, ending nearly a half-century of producing the plane that became the aircraft of choice for the U.S. president and other heads of state. The prospect of ending 747 production after years of weak sales would close a chapter of…
Flight MH370 vanished during a flight ti Beijing from Kuala Lumpur over two years ago The pilot Zaharie Shah had practised crashing the plane into the Indian Ocean on a simulator. The simulated route was similar to the one that the plane had taken before vanishing. Officials are admitting today that the likelihood of recovering…
When a flight out of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport was delayed for six terrible hours, passengers luckily had the Haitian band Lakou Mizik on board to entertain them with some uplifting songs. Lakou Mizik is a multigenerational Haitian collective of musicians that formed after the tragic 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
