Pilots landing at certain South African airports may be forced to do so without an essential ground-based system used to guide planes safely towards the ground in low visibility. This is according to various notices to airmen (NOTAMs), including one issued on Monday 10 August. According to the notice, the Instrument Landing Systems (ILSs) used…
Heathrow’s passenger numbers were down 89% year-on-year in July, figures published by the airport show. Just 867,000 people travelling through the west London airport last month, compared with 7.754 million in July 2019. The latest monthly data reflects a slight uplift in passenger traffic since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Demand was down 95%…
In Chinitna bay, a curious juvenile bear liked the plane. The pilots said she was always curious about airplanes and it was probably the third or fourth encounter with her. The first few times she would just push the tail down, but pilots were able to chase her off. Occurred on August 17, 2017 /…
Maurice Ferrier will never forget the day of his 95th birthday. This former butcher, who had never boarded a plane, dreamed of going “to see what’s going on up there”. “If I’m fine at 95, I absolutely want to do it”. And he did. Maurice Ferrier wanted to celebrate his birthday in a way that…
Rolls-Royce will carry out extra inspections on some of its Trent XWB engines which power the Airbus A350 airliner. Rolls-Royce said on Tuesday that the issue would not cause significant customer disruption or material cost, as it affected a small number of XWBs of a certain age. The Trent XWB-84 engine is set to be…
More than 6,000 of the 27,000 staff from the Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group have taken no-pay leave of varying lengths to help the company cope with the collapse in air travel due to Covid-19. In addition, more than 1,700 employees, including ground staff, pilots and cabin crew, have signed up for volunteer positions and jobs…
A Hi Fly A380 flew over the beaches of the Algarve in Portugal, frightening tourists who were on the beach. In the footage took by a tourist at the Falésia beach and Albufeira beach, people are seen running in fear of the presence of the large plane, which flies at low altitude. The route of…
A plane travelling from Nice in France to Oslo in Norway landed just minutes after the mandatory quarantine was imposed, meaning all 158 passengers needed to self-isolate for 10 days. The Scandinavian company SAS plane landed minutes after France officially became part of Norway’s “red list”, a Norwegian minister confirmed. Flight #SK4700 landed few minutes…
The remuneration of Air France pilots is partly linked to the hours flown. Hence the decline observed since April. The pilots of Air France and its low-cost subsidiary Transavia have seen their salaries decrease significantly since April, “efforts made necessary” by the Covid-19 crisis, the SNPL union estimated on Monday. “The airline pilots of Air…
The airline plans to fly to London Heathrow from September. Budget carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday said it has secured slots at the London Heathrow Airport, which will allow the airline to commence flights to the UK from next month. Sources at SpiceJet said it has got one daily slot and the airline plans to operate…
German airline Lufthansa has become the latest to recommence services from Birmingham Airport. The company has resumed daily flights this week between the city and Munich after they were paused because of the coronavirus crisis. This latest move follows last month’s announcement by Jet2 that its summer programme of flights and holidays had returned to…
A passenger looked on in shock as a stubborn pigeon refused to give up its perch on a plane engine during takeoff. The unusual incident took place during a flight from London, with the pigeon refusing to budge even as the plane began to accelerate rapidly along the runway. In the footage, the pigeon attempted…
