Virgin Atlantic has completed a £1.2 billion recapitalisation. Having taken the final steps in the legal process, the airline is hoping to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis as a sustainably profitable carrier. However, the devastating impact of Covid-19 on global aviation continues unabated, and the airline said it must take further steps to ensure survival.…
Norwegian Air , which is attempting to secure a second round of financial restructuring, saw a 91% decline in August passenger volume from a year earlier. Norwegian flew 313,316 passengers in August compared to 3.5 million in August 2019. Only 62.1per cent of its seats were filled on average, down from 90per cent a year…
Saudi Arabia has announced on Wednesday that it will now allow flights from all countries to fly over its skies to reach the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to a statement by the General Authority for Civil Aviation, Riyadh approved a request of the United Arab Emirates to allow all flights from and to the…
Magician David Blaine took to the sky in his latest death-defying feat Ascension. Blaine is wearing a harness and is holding 52 helium-filled balloons. He is hoping to reach an altitude of 18,000. He didn’t even put his parachute on until he was approximately halfway up! The event is streaming exclusively on YouTube, which funded…
The mum-of-two from Ukraine was returning from a holiday in Turkey when she used the emergency doors to step out of the plane after it landed at Boryspil Airport in Kyiv. A woman shocked her fellow passengers when she walked out of a plane and onto the wing of the jet to cool down. Footage…
A wild brawl between a pair of women unfolded on the jet bridge to a Delta flight at La Guardia Airport Sunday — as they let loose with nails and fists before stunned fellow passengers, including one who captured it on video. The two women were about to board a flight to Atlanta when they…
Virgin Atlantic has added five additional services as the carrier rebuilds its route network. As countries around the world start to relax travel restrictions, Virgin Atlantic will resume flying from London Heathrow to Delhi, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, Mumbai and Lagos throughout September. The recovery will continue through 2021, in line with customer demand. Juha Jarvinen,…
All passengers on board TUI flight from Zante to Cardiff have been instructed to self-isolate after multiple passengers tested positive for coronavirus. Initially, seven people from three different parties were confirmed to have contracted Covid-19. However, the number has now increased to 16 passengers. The TUI flight TOM6215 from the island of Zante, Greece to…
A child was swung into the air during a kite festival in Taiwan before falling to the ground amid a crowd of surprised onlookers. Local media reports said the three-year-old girl suffered minor cuts. The incident happened at a kite festival in Hsinchu, about 80km west of the capital Taipei. A Hsinchu city government official…
Boeing grounded eight of its 787 Dreamliner jets for inspection and repair after finding two manufacturing flaws that together could compromise the structural integrity of the aircraft. The distinct issues involve the composite barrel sections at the rear of the wide-body plane, which are melded together at a Boeing plant in South Carolina. Together, the…
United Airlines said Thursday that it will furlough up to 2,850 pilots this fall unless the federal government provides more relief to help airlines cover their labor costs during a pandemic-fueled downturn in travel. United’s figure is higher than the 1,941 pilots that Delta plans to furlough and the 1,600 targeted for termination at American.…
Norwegian Air reported its results for the first half year of 2020. The airline has been strongly affected by COVID-19, posting a 71% passenger decline, 8,000 furloughed or laid off employees and 140 grounded aircraft. During the first half of 2020, 5.31 million customers travelled with the company; a decrease of 71 percent compared to…
