Over 400 passengers on a Dubai bound flight were diverted to Sydney overnight due to engine issues. Qantas flight QF9 was 3 hours into it’s joarney from Melbourne to Dubai, when the pilots noticed an abnormal engine vibration. The captain of the flight made a call to divert to Sydney as a safety precaution. …
Straightline Aviation, based in Wolverhampton Business Airport has signed a £330m deal with Lockheed Martin for 12 airships and is currently working with Hybrid Enterprises, Lockheed Martin’s seller of the airship to finalise the agreement. Straightline Aviation hopes to receive their fleet by 2018. Mike Kendrick, the co-founder and CEO of Straightline Aviation said: “We are…
The third largest international cargo airline, Qatar Airways Cargo have announced the launch of their first mobile app, named QR Cargo, which is available for both Android & iOS devices via the Google Play Store & the Apple App Store. This application aims to give customers information about where their deliveries are with up-to-date status…
Boeing & Ryanair marked a milestone on April 4th 2016 with the delivery of Ryanair’s 400th Boeing B737-800 Next Generation Aircraft on April 2nd, registered as EI-FRC. The Irish LCC operates the largest fleet of B737-800NG’s in the world. “The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with its industry leading technical reliability and seating capacity, has been the…
A pilot has been suspended after posting online videos of himself in the cockpit of jets. The Air China employee attracted almost 72,000 fans on his Weibo account, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, with his clips. But the pilot, believed to be called ‘Andy’, has now been suspended by the company, which said his actions…
Following the expansion of their Istanbul services, Etihad has gone one-up again and have announced extra daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Johannesburg, South Africa. There will be 3 additional flights per week between the two destinations running between July & September with their Boeing B787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The increased services are to cater for…
Alaska Air Group, parent company of Alaska Airlines, agreed to purchase carrier Virgin America for approximately $2.6 billion. This will make Alaska Airlines a much bigger airline, adding Virgin America’s 60 Airbus A320 jets to Alaska’s mainline fleet of 147 Boeing 737s. Alaska would overtake JetBlue, which it beat in the bidding for Virgin America, to…
American Airlines have announced that they are restarting certain routes out of Dublin & Shannon to expand their operations in Ireland much further. American have announced that the Dublin-Charlotte & Chicago routes will be operated by their Airbus A330 aircraft and their Shannon-Philadelphia Route will be operated by a Boeing B757. All of the three…
Etihad Airways have announced an expansion of routes out of Istanbul Airport. They will expand services to Istanbul with a 4x per week service to Sabiha Gokcen Airport starting on July 1st of this year. The service will be operated by the airline’s Airbus A320-200 and will have 16 seats in Business with 120 in…
One of Europe’s biggest airlines, easyJet launched a route between Malta and Geneva on March 29th. The new service which is expected to carry over 6,000 passengers in the first summer of it’s operations commenced on March 29th and will operate 2x per week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. easyJet launched services to Malta in 2008…
After launching their first passenger service in Orlando, National Airlines are to expand their connections by adding flights from New York, Islip & Puerto Rico. They were to initially launch these routes on July 1st but due to an increase in demand & growth, the airline have brought it forward by a month, to June…
Flybe have announced the expansion of their presence in Doncaster with 2 brand new routes! They have announced that as part of their 2016/17 winter programme, they will be launching flights to Düsseldorf and Chambery. The Düsseldorf flights are due to start on the 30th October 2016 with the Chambery Flights to be launched on…
