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Flight EK19 declares midair emergency heading to UK from the Emirates

The Emirates flight left Dubai this afternoon and made it as far as Turkey before diverting to Cyprus. Pilots were forced to divert a plane travelling to the UK after declaring a mid air emergency. The Emirates flight EK19 left Dubai at 2.45pm and made it as far as Turkey before divertin...

FedEx Employee Falls Asleep While Loading Packages on Plane

A FedEx employee who works at the company’s Memphis hub ended up in Lubbock, Texas, last Friday after he fell asleep on the job. According to KJTV-TV, the unidentified worker was loading packages on the plane when he became extremely exhausted and fell asleep. Without noticing him in the ba...

Hong Kong down in Q1 despite mild growth in March

Hong Kong International Airport saw ‘mild’ growth of 1.1 per cent in March helped by trade with India and Australasia, but the first quarter was still down 3.5 per cent on 2015. In March volumes were up by 1.1 per cent to 368,000 tonnes, with exports growing by five per cent and transhipments were up three per cent. Despite the growth in March, volumes for the first quarter are down...

Saudia unveils plan for low-cost carrier

Saudi Arabian flag-carrier Saudia is to establish a new airline division for low-cost air transport in the kingdom. The plan has been disclosed by the airline’s director general, Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, during a ceremony in Jeddah which featured an Airbus A320neo test aircraft as a backdrop. Al-Jasser says the airline, branded Flyadeal, will begin operating in mid-2017....

EasyJet announces 'shock' bid to snap up budget airline rival Monarch

EasyJet is reportedly making a surprise takeover bid for rival British budget airline Monarch, it was reported on Sunday, 17 April. A takeover would signal a further upturn in the ailing British aviation company's fortunes after it came close to collapse in 2014, due in part to an "outdated business model" and stiff competition from rival budget airlines. Monarch –...

Qantas puts brakes on domestic growth in response to market conditions

Qantas’s shares have tumbled sharply after the airline group announced putting a brake on domestic growth in response to weaker-than-expected demand. On the domestic front, Qantas said it would cut capacity in the three months to June 30 2016, compared with the prior corresponding period, in response to the airline posting negative revenue per available seat kilometre (RASK – an ind...

You can fly ’em, but you can’t shoot ’em

The FAA wants people to stop shooting drones. At least 12 drones have been shot out of the sky in five U.S. states and the Federal Aviation Authority says it’s a federal crime, according to a report in Forbes. Even if they’re over your house. Even if they’re carrying running chainsaws. The FAA says you can’t shoot them down and you can’t disturb or interfere with s...

Air France resumes flights to Iran after 8 years

An Air France passenger plane landed in Tehran international airport Sunday, marking the resumption of Paris-Tehran flights. The Sunday flight is the first Air France jet to land in Iran in eight years, following a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers that went into effect in January. The resumption of international flights to Tehran's Imam Khomenei International Airport i...

Ryanair Eastern Europe Expansion Poses Wizz Air Challenge

Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest discount airline, is pushing further into Eastern Europe than it previously planned, heightening competition with Wizz Air Holdings Plc, the area’s leading low-cost operator. Since January, Ryanair has announced new bases in Sofia in Bulgaria, Vilnius in Lithuania, Bucharest and Timisoara in Romania and — last week — the Czech...

Asiana To Pay San Francisco $3.45 Million For Their 2013 Crash

Most of you probably remember the Asiana Airlines flight between Seoul Incheon and San Francisco which crashed back in mid-2013. The plane stalled on final approach, and ended up crash landing on the runway. Three people died, including one person who actually survived the crash but was hit by a rescue truck. The cause of the crash was ultimately determined to be pilot error. While the crash ha...

Plenty of Passengers, but Where Are the Pilots?

DELAYS or cancellations because of bad weather or mechanical problems are exasperating but common occurrences in air travel, but increasingly, passengers aren’t making it to their destinations for yet another reason: not enough pilots. The gate agent may not tell you that’s why you’re grounded, but a dearth of qualified pilots is disrupting, reducing and even eliminating flights....

Airbus said poised to win Delta deal for at least 30 A321 jets

Airbus Group SE is poised to win an order for at least 30 A321 single-aisle jetliners from Delta Air Lines Inc valued at $3.5 billion or more at list prices as part of a wider fleet overhaul at the US carrier, according to people familiar with the plan. Details of the transaction are still being worked out and Atlanta-based Delta needs board approval for the purchase, according to the people, w...

So THAT’S Why Airplane Engines Are So Big Now

At first glance, a commercial jet engine may look like an engineering outlier. Nearly everything else we see on planes has gotten smaller and more streamlined over the years. So why have engines continued to grow? Turns out it’s because they wouldn’t be as efficient any other way, according to the Minute Physics video above. The core of a modern jet engine is actually pretty smal...

Italian authorities probe crash of Hero UAV

Italy’s ANSV air accident investigation board has opened an inquiry after an accident involving an SD-150 Hero unmanned air vehicle at Siena’s Ampugnano airport. Manufactured and operated by Sistemi Dinamici and bearing the registration I-UASC, the Hero was damaged in the 12 April incident while performing a test flight, says ANSV. However, it does not provide additional details...

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