Shipment of lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft will be banned until at least 2018, the aviation arm of the United Nations reportedly said Monday. The prohibition comes amid fears of fires that could prove difficult for aircraft fire protection systems to contain. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said that the ban will…
easyJet has added 12 weekly summer flights from London Luton Airport to Amsterdam and Barcelona and an extra daily flight to Zurich next winter. An extra 85,000 seats between Luton and the Dutch and the Catalan Capitals are now available, taking easyJet’s year round frequency to Barcelona to three flights a day, with up to…
Airbus has filed a patent for a “reconfigurable passenger bench seat,” which could accommodate not only larger passengers, but small children as well. Adjustable, detachable seat belts would ensure that all passengers are locked in, regardless of size. The patent, which was published last month, comes out at a time when the debate about how to…
A 53-year-old Nashville man has been charged with indecent exposure after walking into Nashville International Airport naked. According to witnesses and police, Eric Brian Cherry was found in the airport standing fully naked in the terminal in front of the American Airlines counter. Cherry tried to walk up to the counter in front of several…
Gardaí (Irish Police) are investigating an incident in which a TNT cargo flight from Amsterdam to Shannon was targeted by someone using a laser. The crew on board the TAY 1461 reported to air traffic control that a green laser had been directed at their jet just after 10:15 pm while they were on approach to Shannon last Thursday…
Virgin Galactic owned by Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, unveiled its newly completed SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, during a ceremony attended by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic’s Future Astronauts, and partners on Friday. Based on the smaller 2004 X-PRIZE winning SpaceShipOne designed by Burt Rutan, SpaceShipTwo is designed to take a crew of two…
Heathrow Airport has a secret huge, ghost railway station built to serve Terminal 5. The empty station, completed in 2008, already has platforms but the track and signals would need to be installed for it to be operational. Speaking to BBC News, an exclusive tour, Heathrow’s Chris Joyce said: “The scale is absolutely immense and that for…
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air plans to locate its 22nd base in Kutaisi, Georgia, opening with a single Airbus A320 and seven new routes from September. New twice-weekly services from Kutaisi will include Berlin Schönefeld, Memmingen, Milan Bergamo, Dortmund, Larnaca and Sofia, while flights between Kutaisi and Thessaloniki will be flown 3X-weekly. The new…
European airline Air France-KLM has posted its first annual net profit since 2008. The carrier reported a net profit of €118 million for 2015, compared with a €225 million net loss the year before. The company’s overall sales rose 2.8 per cent to €89.82 billion last year. More
Airbus has added three new A350 stations at its Toulouse facility as the manufacturer begins final assembly of the first of three A350-1000 flight test aircraft while it increases production of the A350-900. The first A350-1000 has entered the final assembly line and is expected to begin test flights before the end of 2016, Airbus…
UA82 from Newark to New Delhi turned around near Moscow and diverted to London Heathrow with a technical fault The flight has since landed, and as a result another 777 (N78001, originally at Brussels, flight UA998 BRU-JFK cancelled, flew BRU to LHR) will fly the passengers from Heathrow to New Delhi.
