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NEWS Qatar Airways adds frequency to Singapore
Qatar Airways launching an additional daily flight to Singapore from June 1, 2015. The airline will be operating the new additional flight and the existing two daily flights to Singapore with its third, fourth and fifth A350 XWB aircraft, commencing service in June, July and August 2015.
NEWS Etihad Airways steps up loyalty programme
Etihad Airways’ loyalty program, Etihad Guest is making travel more convenient by introducing a new payment feature onto its membership card. walletplus, powered by Visa, allows members to load travel money onto their Etihad Guest card and convert it to 11 different foreign currencies to spend whenever they are travelling abroad.
NEWS Pilot Uses iPad to Find Airport After Electrical Failure, Makes Belly Landing in South Dakota
After suffering a complete electrical failure The pilot of the single engine Piper PA-24 Comanche diverted to Rapid City, SD. Due to the loss of all electrics, he lost the use of his aircraft’s GPS, radio, and landing gear control. The pilot used his Ipad to direct him, in the night, the 80 miles to…
NEWS Giants will fly with private carrier with first-class seats
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants want to travel in more comfort as they chase another championship. Link
NEWS Biman Boeing 777 at Chittagong on Feb 6th 2015, engine shut down in flight
A Biman Bangladesh Boeing 777-200, registration S2-AHL performing flight BG-47 (sched. dep. Feb 5th, act. dep. Feb 6th) from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) with 241 passengers, was climbing out of Chittagong’s runway 05 when the left hand engine (PW4090) surged prompting the crew to level off at about FL120, shut the engine…
NEWS Icelandair inaugural Reykjavik flight arrives at Birmingham Airport – @BQLive
Thordur Aegir Oskarsson (Ambassador for Iceland), Paul Kehoe (CEO Birmingham Airport), the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Birkir Hólm Guðnason (CEO of Icelandair) and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham Icelandair has begun its scheduled service from Birmingham airport to Reykjavik and passengers were treated to an experience on board the new “Aurora plane”. The “Aurora plane” is…
COFFEE NEWS Delta to serve Starbucks coffee worldwide
Atlanta based Delta Air Lines and Seattle based coffee company Starbucks, have announced that Delta will extend its existing service of Starbucks coffee onboard every Delta and Delta connection flight around the globe. Delta began service Starbucks Pike Place Roast and Starbucks VIA Ready Bew Italian Roast decaf on its fleet of 1,270 aircraft beginning…
