Nordic Aviation, its partner Adria Airways and the biggest Estonian ski tour operators Germalo Reisid and Mainor Meelis will start organising regular charter flights to popular European ski resorts from the second half of February. This is the first contract in the area of charter flights for Nordic Aviation. On Saturday from 20 February to 26 March 2016, there will be return flights to Milan,...
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...
When the pilot of an Alitalia jetliner reported seeing a drone while approaching New York's Kennedy Airport in 2013, the likelihood of a collision between a drone and a commercial jet seemed pretty remote. But over the past two years, aviation experts and regulators in the US have become increasingly concerned about the growing number of drones flying near airports and the risks they could...
Just as the federal government is mulling over the privatisation of the national air carrier, the top court has restricted Shujaat Azeem from carrying out his duties as special assistant to the prime minister on aviation affairs. While hearing multiple petitions challenging his appointment, the three-judge apex court bench, headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, also summoned Captain (ret...
The key design elements of timepieces made for 1940s German Air Force pilots - legibility and a black dial face with white markings - have inspired countless watches since, but there's nothing to beat the real deal, writes Abid Rahman High fliegers Like most sane, sensible and non-weird people, I like to google myself. Often. And after some expert googling I was surprised to learn that...
More than 70 years after it led Allied aircraft during the D-Day invasion, the C-47 That's All Brother is being readied for its new home in Dallas. Before it can fly to Texas, the historic World War II airplane is being resurrected from a Wisconsin aircraft boneyard, where it was discovered last year by an aviation buff. "As soon as the news broke, there was a lot of interest from m...
The newly concluded Taiwan-Macau double taxation avoidance agreement on aviation businesses will boost the development of air transport between the two sides and increase bilateral business and people-to-people exchanges, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF). Taiwanese carriers Eva Air and TransAsia Airways, as well as Tigerair Taiwan -- a joint venture between Taiwan's China Airlines...
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...
The airline industry looks forward to improved performance in 2016 on the back of a projected higher global GDP growth and lower oil prices, although some markets may slow down because of huge depreciation of their currencies against the rising dollar. Recently, the International Air Transport Association, the global body of some 250 major airlines, announced its airline industry out...
Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways will consider expanding to other destinations like Melbourne and Perth in the future after launching its first flights between Tokyo and Sydney since the 1990s on Saturday, says Kenya Inada, ANA general manager Asia and Oceania. "We want to see very good success in the [daily Tokyo] Haneda-Sydney route first, then we will look at other options later...
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 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....
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...
A Jetstar Airbus A320-200, registration VH-VFV performing flight JQ-127 from Adelaide, SA (Australia) to Denpasar Bali (Indonesia), was enroute at FL340 about 540nm northnorthwest of Adelaide,SA over central Australia when the crew decided to turn back to Adelaide due to the failure of one of the hydraulic systems. The aircraft descended to FL250 for the flight back and landed safely back in Adela...
In a bizarre turn of events, a 46-year-old man became unconscious and collapsed in an Agartala-bound flight today, minutes after he boarded the plane and was declared brought dead by doctors at a hospital. A resident of Agartala, Hasan Ali had come here for availing medical treatment. This afternoon, he boarded an Agartala bound flight via Kolkata to go back to his native town after comple...
Peter Barnes made inappropriate decision to fly in 'excessively challenging weather' while under pressure to satisfy important client, jury decides. A pilot who was killed in a central London helicopter crash was under commercial pressure to satisfy an important client when he made the inappropriate and unsafe decision to fly in "excessively challenging weather conditions", a...
All the helicopters supplied to Bangladesh are equipped with modern navigation systems, which enable the aircraft to be operated at any time of the day and in any weather conditions, the company said. "The Russian Helicopters holding has delivered a batch of five Mi-171Sh combat-transport helicopters to the Bangladesh Defense Ministry. [The aut...
Aeroflot took delivery of its new B737-800 Next Generation aircraft made by Boeing. The plane is named in honour of Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet theater and movie director, artist, scenarist and professor. Aeroflot’s Boeing 737-800NG has two-class composition with 20 seats in business class and 138 seats in economy class. The Business class salo...
IX International Helicopter Industry Exhibition HeliRussia will be held from May 19th to 21st 2016 in Moscow. The exhibition is organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. For participants registered before December 20, 2015, a special offer is available – they'll get a 10% discount on exhibition spaces rental. HeliRussia 2016 gathers all leading a...
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...
Ever since Qantas rolled out the Virtual Reality (VR) red carpet to their premium passengers earlier this year by offering Samsung Gear VR headsets to travelers in select lounges and first class A380 cabins, speculation about the future of VR and Augmented Reality (AR) as a viable alternative to traditional IFE has run rampant. And while a handful of forward-thinking carriers like KLM and Lufthans...
