Etihad Airways’ flagship Airbus A380 will touch down in Melbourne in June 2016. The Victorian capital will be the airline’s second Australian port and fourth destination overall to receive A380 services, after the double decker superjumbo debuted on the Abu Dhabi-Sydney route in June 2015. The move represented a 26 per cent increase in capacity between Melbourne and Abu Dhab...
An Air Canada Boeing 787-800, registration C-GHPV performing flight AC-84 from Toronto, ON (Canada) to Tel Aviv (Israel) with 299 people on board, was on approach to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport in bad weather when the aircraft received a lightning strike prompting the crew to abort the approach at about 3500 feet and divert to Paphos (Cyprus). The aircraft climbed to FL260 enroute to Cy...
Passengers of a Saudia flight en route to Jordan were evacuated just before take-off after a cabin crew member opened the evacuation slide by accident. Flight 637 from the Saudi capital Riyadh to Amman was about to take off when a steward opened a door by accident, causing the evacuation slide to open. "The passengers were told to leave the aircraft and return to the airport termin...
A plane belonging to Russia's Yakutia Airlines has been seized at the Ben Gurion international airport in Israel's Tel Aviv over unpaid debts, the company's director general has told TASS. "The Boeing-737 is under arrest at the airport of Israel over debts," Olga Fedorova said. The flight from Tel Aviv to southern Russia's Krasnodar was detained for 28 hou...
Garuda Indonesia booked a net income of US$51.4 million through the third quarter 2015, an increase of 123.4% compared to the same period last year when it incurred a loss of US$220.1 million. Garuda Indonesia President and CEO M. Arif Wibowo said in Jakarta on Friday that the Company also increased total revenue from US$2.83 billion through the third quarter 2014 to US$2.84 billion during the...
Edinburgh Airport has warned of "delays to all flights this morning" as a technical issue affects Scottish air traffic control. Journeys from two other airports -- in Glasgow and Aberdeen -- are also being disrupted by the fault, which emerged overnight at a major control centre in Prestwick. In a statement, National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said: "Some impact is...
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced a new strategic partnership with global technology leader, Adobe. The partnership will see the roll-out of a range of world-class cloud solutions across Etihad Airways businesses and Etihad Airways Partners. The partnership is a key enabler of the aviation group's strategic vision to offer a superior digital ser...
Increasing demand for no-frills air services in Taiwan, among other Northeast Asian countries, could become a major driver of growth in the region's aviation market, a Boeing executive said Friday. Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said market performance of the company's single-aisle aircraft — the majority of its airplane deliveries over...
A single-engine plane taking off from a regional airport went off a runway on Saturday morning and then crashed into nearby woods, killing the pilot, authorities said. Pilot Gary Weller, of Putnam, Connecticut, was the only person aboard the 1996 Mooney M20M, Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said. The aircraft veered to the right after takeoff from Worcester Regional Airport ...
Ultra-long, non-stop flights are set to rule the skies again. Over the past few weeks, major airlines have announced dizzyingly long flights that will go halfway round the earth without kissing it midway. Air India will fly the over 17-hour Delhi-San Francisco route from December 2. The Maharaja was planning a non-stop on the Bengaluru-SFO route, which at 18 hours would have been the world...
The National Disaster Management Body (BNPB) has explained that the haze disaster that has seriously affected many parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan, disrupting transportation and causing health problems, has started to spread to Java. "Based on the results of monitoring by Himawari Satellite, the thin haze has started to cover the air above the Java Sea and is heading to Jakarta," said...
A Lufthansa Boeing 747-800, registration D-ABYN performing flight LH-754 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Bangalore (India), was climbing out of Frankfurt when the crew stopped the climb at FL230, descended the aircraft to FL200, dumped fuel and returned to Frankfurt for a safe landing on runway 25C about 90 minutes after departure. The aircraft taxied to the apron with emergency services in trail...
A Peruvian Airlines Boeing 737-300, registration OB-2040-P performing flight P9-216 from Lima to Cuzco (Peru) with 120 people on board, landed on Cuzco's runway 28 at about 11:30L (15:30Z), however, the right main gear collapsed at low speed near the end of the runway leaving the aircraft disabled on the runway. The passengers were evacuated via slides. No injuries are being reported. The a...
World War I pilot Fédèle Azari spent the decade after the war making airplane-related art as part of the Italian Futurist movement. These photos, part of a group of Azari's images that have been digitized and made available through the J. Paul Getty Museum's Open Content Program, reflect Azari's vision of aviation as a gorgeous, transcendent art form.&...
The initial public offer (IPO) by InterGlobe Aviation could have been an open-and-shut buying opportunity for investors. The company operates IndiGo Airlines — the country’s largest and most profitable air carrier. The airline seems set to continue its strong growth in the high-potential Indian skies. Also, the asking price for the issue, while not cheap, seems justified. But these pos...
Around $15 billion has been invested in developing the aviation sphere in Azerbaijan over the last 10 years, Abid Sharifov, the country’s deputy prime minister said Oct.23. He made the remarks during the 35th session of the Interstate Council on Aviation and Airspace in Baku. “Four new airports were constructed and two more were modernized, helicopter and aircraft fleets were ful...
They might be called crisis managers, but as much as anything, the job of the people clustered in the windowless room filled with big-screen TVs and computers is to see if the dots connect. A man carrying a gun gets caught trying to board a plane in Houston. A woman with a gun is stopped in the Atlanta airport. Both had tickets to fly into Washington’s Reagan National Airport at about the...
Germany gave Etihad Airways a final deadline to end codesharing on 31 routes with Air Berlin, saying that the UAE carrier must find an alternative solution for the connections by January 15 next year. The decision comes after a court in Braunschweig gave Etihad up until November 8 to end the codeshare agreement. Germany’s transport ministry said Friday it extended the decision f...
Emirates turns 30 on Sunday, and while it has risen to become the world’s largest international airline in that time, its next phase of growth will be more challenging amid increased costs, competition and protectionism in foreign markets, analysts say. It was a relatively modest beginning – a US$10 million budget, a deadline to start operations within five...
Stories are an important part of childhood. Not only do children learn language or lessons about how the world works, but storytelling also forms a strong bond between parents and their kids. Reading rituals are important, but working parents who travel a lot have to miss out sometimes. What if they could tell bedtime stories even though they have to catch a plane? That’s the premise behi...
Aeroflot will receive 56 international routes of Transaero as compensation of expenses for carrying Transaero passengers Aeroflot can close the gap in international flights after Transaero goes away, Russia’s Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov said on Friday. "The most important now, when the license is canceled and the company [Transaero] will not make its flights, all our aviat...
