Boeing said during fabrication of the 787 horizontal stabilizer it learned some components were clamped with greater force than specified, which could result in improper gap verification and shimming. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Tuesday it “is investigating manufacturing flaws affecting certain Boeing 787 jetliners. The agency continues to engage with Boeing.” The horizontal…
Flight DL679 ATL-LAX yesterday on sept 5th 2020. The aircraft will still be used on the international LAX-SYD flight for the time being as well as cargo and charter flights. A pretty full flight with lots of AV geeks/ vloggers/ bloggers. The last scheduled domestic 777 flight for Delta.
Two airline passengers each face fines of $1,000 for refusing to wear face masks on board a flight, the first time Transport Canada has imposed a financial penalty for violating rules meant to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first incident occurred on a WestJet flight from Calgary to Waterloo, Ont., in June…
Emirates airline will restore its employees full salaries starting from October. This comes as the company continues to ease travel restrictions and resume flights to over 80 destinations that had been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since March the airline has made thousands of layoffs as it struggled to recover from the economic fallout…
The second-to-last Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 will be retired. G-VROS ‘Forever Young’ will depart at 12:00 tomorrow, today.
British leisure airline Jet2 has canceled all flights between the UK and Croatia along with Mainland Spain amid COVID uncertainty due to strict measures. This was announced after the introduction of restrictive measures for travelers coming from Croatia to the United Kingdom, which resulted in a significant drop in demand. In a statement released by…
Ruby Moores age 9 from Stoke-On-Trent is a thrill seeker for sure she is a BMX Racer and loves standing underneath large or fast jets as they are on final approach, the difference being with fighter jets is you never know when one is going to perform a missed approach so as you can tell…
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…
