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Fire Foam Sprayed on Wrong Aircraft at Chinese Airport Caused 120 Million Yuan in Damage to Engines

Fuzhou Airlines confirmed on Saturday that foam mistakenly sprayed on one of its Boeing 737-800 passenger liners on Thursday damaged both its engines and would cost about 120 million yuan (HK$144 million) to replace them, The Paper.cn, a news portal based in Shanghai, reported. The airlines...

Air France to restore two long-range routes next summer

Air France (Paris) will be enhancing its flight schedule for summer 2016 with two additional routes. Starting in June 2016, Air France will begin service from New York (JFK) to Paris-Orly, in addition to the four daily frequencies to Paris Charles de Gaulle. Beginning in April 2016, Air Fran...


Aurigny to launch a new service to Leeds Bradford Airport

Aurigny is to begin a new, direct, year round service to Leeds Bradford airport beginning on Friday 27th May 2016. Throughout the summer, it will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, leaving Guernsey at midday and arriving in Leeds Bradford at 13.40. The return flight will depart Leeds Bradford at 14.10, arriving in Guernsey just before 1600. From October to May, it will run on M...

Jinan Airport Handles 9 Million Passengers in 2015

Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport (TNA) reported to have handled 9,004,800 passengers from January to Dec. 10 this year, up 9 percent from the same period of 2014. From the start of the new winter/spring flight season, Jinan airport has launched twelve new services including Fuzhou-Jinan-Dalian, Harbin-Jinan-Hong Kong, Jinan-Changsha-Phuket, further meeting passengers' travel demand...

Parking Scheme to Stop "Holiday Dumpers" Around Manchester Airport "Delayed to the New Year"

A scheme to stop holidaymakers parking on residential roads around the airport has been delayed to 2016. Several roads in Wythenshawe are earmarked to become residents-only parking stopping sunseekers leaving their cars for up to three weeks at a time - and taxi drivers hanging around waiting for airport fares. Residents have been battling for a parking scheme for five years. Around 300...

Malaysia Airports Says Yet to Verify Who Owns Abandoned Planes

Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad said on Saturday it is still trying to verify who owns three Boeing jets abandoned at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for which it issued a rare lost-and-found newspaper notice last week. A cargo company has claimed the aircraft but Zainol Mohd Isa, general manager of the airports operator, said it needed more information to clearly establish ownership....

Kids Stranded at Airport After Last-Minute Jetstar Cancellation

A group of 50 schoolchildren are stranded in Wellington Airport after their flight to Auckland was cancelled at the last minute. A parent of one of the children, who had been in Wellington for an orchestra trip, had been told by Jetstar they would not be able to fly the group home until Tuesday because of an engineering problem. But Jetstar said it hoped to be able to fly the students b...

Russia’s Kaluga airport to handle flights from Germany

Russia’s Kaluga International Airport will now be able to handle scheduled flights from Germany after authorities agreed to replace Perm with Kaluga as a Russian destination. In addition, the Russian Federation has designated Memmingen Airport as a German destination. The new Kaluga airport, located 160 km from Moscow,opened May 27, 2015. It was granted international sta...

Brawling Irish UFC Fans Force JetBlue Flight to Return to JFK

Fans flying to a UFC featherweight showdown in Las Vegas were treated to some in-flight fisticuffs when two brawling passengers forced their plane to return to New York. JetBlue Flight 611 was just 25 minutes into its flight Thursday night when the flying fracas erupted, the MailOnline reported. Passenger Damien Coyne told the site he was "embarrassed and angry" about the inci...

Girl Band Arrested at Airport After Being Mistaken for Sex Workers When Authorities Searched Luggage

A girl band was arrested at an airport after they were mistaken for being sex workers. K-Pop group Oh My Girl were travelling to the U.S. for an album cover shoot when they were stopped at Los Angeles International Airport by authorities. The eight-piece, aged between 16 and 21, were detained in customs for 15 hours on Thursday after officers searched through their costumes and props, t...

Heathrow Indecision Highlights Europe's Airport Crunch

Moves by Britain to delay, once again, a decision on where to build a new airport runway to serve the London area highlights Europe's difficulties in keeping up with emerging countries when it comes to creating vital airport capacity. By 2035, airports across Europe will be unable to accommodate some 2 million flights due to capacity shortages according to Eurocontrol, the European Org...

Burundi Airport Open But Some Airlines Scrap Flights: Presidency

Bujumbura airport is still open but some airlines have canceled flights, an adviser to Burundi's president said on Friday, after gunmen attacked military bases in the capital in the early hours of the morning. "Bujumbura airport is not closed but some airlines have canceled their flights to Bujumbura," presidential media adviser Willy Nyamitwe told Reuters in a brief mes...

Air China touches down in Auckland

Air China has touched down in New Zealand for the first time with the arrival of flight CA783 in Auckland on Thursday evening. The Airbus A330-200, B-5932, landed a little after 1830 local time on Thursday following its 12 and a half hour journey from Beijing. The reciprocal, CA784, took off at about 2020 bound for the Chinese capital. Air China is operating a daily Beijing-Auckland service...

Emirates Offers Special Deals for World's Longest Flight

Emirates is offering special pre-launch fares for its Dubai to Panama route, which will start from February 1. The route, operated by a Boeing 777-200 LR, will take a whopping 17 hours and 35 minutes, making it the longest in the world. Emirates said that fares would start from Dh7,205 in economy class and Dh20,250 in business class when booked for travel between February 1 and March 23....

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