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.
The clip shows the man kicking and punching two officers who are incapable of subduing him at a Lufthansa check-in desk. Other travelers in the background boo and heckle but fail to intervene. The confrontation ends when the man suddenly drops to the floor. It is unclear whether he was tasered or whether he was…
The Boeing Company held their “100 Year Founders Day Centennial Celebration” at the Museum Of Flight, located at Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, for three days in July. Boeing’s corporate birthplace was in Seattle, Washington in 1916. Boeing reserved all of the museum’s facilities and parking lots for this event. Boeing’s event contractor erected a temporary…
London City Airport has today received planning permission for expansion from the UK Government which will enable the airport to welcome 6.5 million passengers by 2025 and inject £1.5 billion each year into the economy. The City Airport Development Programme (CADP) is a £344 million privately funded investment which includes plans for 7 new aircraft stands,…
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Malaysia Airlines Berhad (Malaysia Airlines) announced today an order for 25 737 MAX 8 airplanes, valued at $2.75 billion dollars at current list prices. The order, previously attributed to an unidentified customer on the Boeing Orders & Deliveries website, also includes purchase rights for additional 737 MAX 8 and 737 MAX…
