United Airlines grounded 24 Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000 series engines after the Denver incident. United decided to ground the 777s after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency order saying it would be stepping up inspections of Boeing 777 jets powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. In a statement…
Twenty-six Thai Airways employees are accused of faking their own deaths to claim funeral payouts from the airline. These employees reportedly are still going to work and continuing to collect a paycheck. Twenty members of the Savings Cooperative for Employees of Thai Airways and their lawyers filed a complaint on Tuesday, 16th February, with the…
Boeing recommends suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines. Boeing statement “Boeing is actively monitoring recent events related to United Airlines Flight 328. While the NTSB investigation is ongoing, we recommended suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777s powered by Pratt &…
Travellers arriving in Jordan are no longer subject to mandatory quarantine but require two PCR tests to gain unrestricted access to the country. Jordon closed its borders and international airports in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic outbroke. Jordan implemented one of the strictest lockdowns in the Middle East. The country reopened its border to…
The Clark County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted on Tuesday, 16th February, in favour of renaming Las Vegas McCarran International Airport to Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport. Harry Reid was the sixth-longest-serving leader in the Senate of either party, with a total of 12 years. He was a powerful Democrat who served Nevada. The…
British Airways’ last Airbus A318 “baby bus” made its last flight from Madrid to Enschede on Wednesday, 17th February. The Airbus A318 with registration G-EUNA departed Madrid as flight BA9279 at 13:17 CET and landed at Twente Airport at 16:24 CET. The aircraft will be dismantled and recycled at AELS. The aircraft was retired last…
Issues with water pressure at Memphis Light Gas and Water have caused the passenger terminal to shut down at the Memphis International Airport. According to a news release, the airport has experienced low pressure periodically this week, however, levels dropped Thursday night to the point that passenger operations were no longer feasible. As a result,…
Anastasia and Denis have been together for three years. She is a senior flight attendant, he is a pilot. Here is the love story: ‘On September 16, 2017, at 4 am, I entered the elevator of my house. There was a funny guy in the form of a pilot: “Where are you going? To Gelendzhik?…
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair loses its attempt in an EU court to block massive public bailouts of rival companies such as Air France and SAS. Ryanair lost the first round of its campaign to topple Covid-19 bailouts for rival airlines when a European Union court ruled that French and Swedish subsidies didn’t break state-aid rules.…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction after police stopped a plane flying to Romania. Nottinghamshire Police said they tracked down a man to Heathrow Airport after receiving a report that a four-year-old girl had been taken. They received a call at 16:57 GMT on Thursday, and the flight to Bucharest was…
Air France retired its first Boeing 777-200ER on Thursday, 11th February. The airline has decided to retire additional three 777-200ERs by May. The aircraft with registration F-GSPV departed Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on Thursday morning at 09:07 local time and arrived at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees Airport at 09:59. The first Boeing 777-200ER was delivered to Air…
A man in his 20’s has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of carrying out terror offences, including activity in Syria A young man has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of carrying out terror offences. Counter-terror detectives from the Metropolitan Police detained the man, a British national aged in his 20s, in…
