Emirates will take delivery of their last A380 in 2021, and then will reduce fleet to to around 90-100 A380 aircraft by the mid-2020s until they retire their last A380s somewhere around 2035. But two A380s have already been withdrawn from service at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport and will be used as a spares…
Live map Updates Charleston International Airport will cease operations at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Orlando International Airport will cease operations at 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3. All-female flight crew is set to conduct a recon mission to collect data on Hurricane Dorian as it approaches the Florida Coast, making history for…
A director for LOT Polish Airlines is out of a job after recently “fat shaming” the cabin crew staff of a British Airways flight on social media with a series of illicitly taken photos, reportedly mocking their uniforms as “too tight” and overall appearance as “messy.” Earlier this week, Katarzyna Richter, an operations director for…
It’s not unusual to see dogs and cats onboard planes as emotional support animals in the US. But on one flight, a passenger brought a miniature horse onboard. The service animal, called Flirty, was spotted onboard an American Airlines flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Omaha, Nebraska. The docile pony was captured on video by several…
A trainee pilot has successfully made an emergency landing after his instructor fell ill mid-flight. Max Sylvester was training in a Cessna aircraft in the skies of Perth on Saturday afternoon when his instructor fell unconscious. “I’m trying to keep him up but he keeps falling down,” Mr Sylvester told the controller. “Do you know…
Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday. They provided a report on August 8 to judges investigating the crash pending a possible trial for manslaughter and negligence, said a source…
A flight, from Malaga, landed at 11.40pm on Saturday. Essex Police arrested a woman, 49, on suspicion of assault. The woman, who had been swigging red wine from a Fanta bottle, flipped 45 minutes before the easyJet flight was due to arrive in the UK. Three stewardesses held her down as the plane landed 20…
A computer breakdown briefly disrupted all air traffic in France and caused a cascade of delayed flights in multiple countries Sunday, the last day of European summer holidays. Hundreds of flights were delayed at airports from Britain to Morocco and beyond. Hours after the problem with a French automatic flight plan system was fixed, schedules…
Al Haynes, the Captain of United 232, has died. United 232 was a Denver-Chicago flight on July 19 1989. The tail mounted number 2 engine suffered a catastrophic failure while flying over Iowa. The failure took out all of the DC-10’s hydraulic lines. The crew managed to control the aircraft using asymmetrical thrust. The crew…
AirAsia X, the long haul unit of the AirAsia Group, has finalised a firm order with Airbus for an additional 12 A330-900 and 30 A321XLR aircraft. The contract was signed by Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, Chairman, AirAsia X Berhad and Guillaume Faury, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus in Kuala Lumpur today, in the presence of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Chief Executive…
On Aug. 19, a Boeing 757-200 from Delta Air Lines made a rough landing at Ponta Delgada Airport in the Azores. The fuselage of the aircraft was wrinkled during the incident. In addition to the fuselage, the landing gear was also damaged. The airline rented an Antonov An-124 from the Russian freighter operator Volga-Dnepr to…
In June, Apple recalled the 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Display, sold between September 2015 and February 2017, because the battery “may pose a fire safety risk,” and the FAA soon reminded airlines not to carry those laptops with defective batteries on board. But some airlines are now banning Apple laptops whether they’ve got a…
