Qatar Airways is offering non-stop flights to Nagpur from Doha, taking the airline’s total weekly passenger flights from 95 to 102 across 13 key cities in India. Qatar Airways will operate an A320 daily between Doha and Nagpur with an average flight time of just over four hours. The aircraft will feature 144 seats in a two-class configuration of 12 seats in Business Class and 132 seats in...
Etihad Airways is not interested in a stretched upgrade to the A380, which Dubai-based Emirates airline has asked Airbus to build, according to chief executive James Hogan. The Abu Dhabi-based airline has 10 A380s together in its fleet and on order. “We think the new technology (with) two engines is operationally and economically more advantageous to us in the long term,” Mr Hoga...
China's first manned electric aircraft is ready for production The RX1E aircraft is powered by rechargeable lithium batteries The plane can fly for 45-60 minutes on one 90 minute charge It will be used to train pilots and conduct sightseeing flights The model was given approval for production on Thursday China's first manned electric aircraft has been given a...
Frontier Airlines Inc., a no-frills carrier, has held early stage talks with investment banks about an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. airline is considering starting a formal IPO process as early as next year, the people said, asking not to be identified as the plans are private. There are a number of factors that could influence the decision, and F...
An aviation company manager awaiting a licence to begin operating has had his one-year jail term for offering a bribe to expedite his paperwork reduced. Dubai Criminal Court convicted the 57-year-old man, who denied the charges, and ordered his deportation after the jail term, but he appealed the court’s verdict. Uzbek A Y offered US$50,000 (Dh183,658) to Emirati aviation operat...
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said it will be extending the suspension of its daily flights to Chennai for two more days, until December 9 after torrential rains forced closure of the city’s airport last week. The airline operates three flights daily to the southern Indian city. Etihad initially suspended flights from Wednesday, December 2 through to Monday, December 7. Details of the...
The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) received 480 complaints against low-cost carriers (LCCs) from January to October this year, more than double the number during the same period last year, according to a recent United Evening News report. The budget airline industry has been booming in recent years in Taiwan, with 19 low-cost carriers now serving Taiwan and expanding their routes t...
President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday promulgated the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Corporation Conversion Ordinance, paving way for the privatisation of the national flag carrier under a condition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme. The government chose to issue the ordinance on a day when all eyes were on the final phase of local government elections in Punja...
An Alaska Airlines plane arriving from Seattle struck and killed a deer on a runway at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport near Santa Rosa Wednesday evening, airport Manager Jon Stout said Friday. The plane had not yet touched ground and was only a few hundred feet along the 6,000-foot runway when it clipped the deer just before 6:00 p.m., Stout said. The impact from the deer's...
An Air Arabia Maroc Airbus A320-200, registration CN-NMI performing flight 3O-128 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Tangier (Maroc), was climbing out of Amsterdam's runway 24 on a southerly heading, when a KLM crew reported they had just seen an aircraft with quite an oil trace behind them, a few minutes later ATC queried what colour that aircraft had. The KLM crew reported the aircraft in...
Ultra-light, fast and cheap: more than a century after the Wright brothers flew the world's first powered aircraft, a small Slovenian company now hopes to revolutionise the aviation industry with its award-winning electric planes. Pipistrel's pioneering Taurus Electro is seen as a breath of fresh air in a sector responsible for 13 percent of CO2 emissions from all transport sources....
A plane that Morgan Freeman was on crash landed in Tunica, Mississippi on Saturday. The 78-year-old actor has not suffered any injuries. Freeman told TheWrap in a statement: "I was on my plane on the way to Texas to shoot a segment for The Story of God." "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tire blew on take-off which caused other problems. But thanks to my excel...
