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Mario Balotelli and AC Milan stars fly high with Emirates A380 design

AC Milan’s footballers may be some way from the summit of the Italian league, Serie A, but that hasn’t stopped them from soaring away elsewhere. The club and its sponsor, Emirates, are celebrating their partnership with a new Airbus A380 livery - complete with a number of the players...

Emirates Presses Pause on Panama Hub Plan Until More Agreements in Place

Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, put its plan to establish a hub in Panama connecting cities across Latin America with Asia on hold because government accords permitting cooperation with a key local carrier took too long to put in place. Dubai-based Emirates has secured...

Lufthansa’s Low-Cost Carrier, Although Profitable, Still Struggles

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is pushing to keep its low-cost Eurowings unit profitable even after delays in ramping up long-haul services added costs to the German carrier’s effort to respond to the likes of Ryanair Holdings Plc. Lower fuel costs and planes filling up better than planned have helped offset the impacts from the delays and a drop in travel demand following terror attacks in Paris,...

Who has the longest flight of them all?

Map Happy features the best travel hacks, gear and tech to be the best traveler that you can be. If you have 17+ hours to spare and want to travel on the longest commercial flight, here's the ticket. Emirates currently holds the record for the world's current longest active commercial flight.Airways News reports that the first flight, which runs nonstop from Auckland, in New Zealand,...

Inside Ryanair's corporate jet: Caviar, champagne and lots of legroom

Ryanair launched its first customised jet this week, with 60 business class seats and fine dining catering facilities on offer to clients. Business looks brisk, too. Since its launch, the airline has been flooded with booking enquiries, according to its Head of Communications, Robin Kiely. "We were inundated with requests not just from corporate bookers and finance companies, but also h...

Qatar Airways in global expansion

Qatar Airways is expanding its its network to 14 new destinations. Spread across four continents, the new routes will further expand the reach of the airline’s network, and will include the world’s longest flight, between Doha and Auckland, New Zealand. Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker announced the new routes at ITB Berlin, where he remarked: “Qatar Ai...

Mumbai: Angry after Air India pilot reports late, fliers deboard aircraft

AI pilot boarded aircraft 4 hours after scheduled departure time of Mumbai-Bhubaneshwar flight, passengers return to the terminal building from the aircraft in protest The national carrier, Air India, that has been short-staffed and has been struggling to manage its operations, had to delay one of its flights on Thursday afternoon, as the pilot had not reported for duty. The flight was not only...

SWISS offers more points and flights in its summer schedules

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will be further adjusting its range of servicesfrom Zurich and Geneva in its 2016 summer schedules. Alicante in Spain will receivescheduled service from Zurich, while the vacation destination of Lamezia Terme inSouthern Italy will be served from Geneva. The new summer schedules will also seefrequencies increased to various existing European and intercontinenta...

Easyjet plane stopped just in time after spanner spotted stuck on wing

An Easyjet flight averted possible disaster after a passenger spotted a spanner stuck on the wing of the plane just moments before take-off. According to reports the passenger - known only as Christopher - alerted the pilot who was about to departed on a flight from Geneva to Copenhagen. Luckily for all on board the flight was halted just in the nick of t...

Thai Airways says no agreement yet on plane delivery deferrals

Thai Airways International PCL , halfway through a restructuring plan, has not yet agreed with Airbus and Boeing on delivery deferrals for aircraft it no longer needs as it tries to fill seats on its existing planes, its president told Reuters on Friday. Thai Airways is one of several state-controlled companies undergoing reform since the Thai military seized power in May 2014. Late last month...

Brussels Airlines kicks off the summer season with 9 new destinations

Brussels Airlines continues its growth pace in 2016. The aviation summer season, which begins on March 27, starts with a new long-haul destination, eight new European routes and a frequency increase to existing destinations. Brussels Airlines significantly increases its flight offer during the summer season 2016. During a standard summer week, an average of 815 European flights and 95 internati...

Oman Air eyes Airbus A350 plane purchase

Oman Air is considering buying Airbus Group SE (AIR.FR) A350 long-range planes amid a turnaround effort aimed at ending years of government handouts. The airline may take around 13 A350s from 2020, Chief Executive Paul Gregorowitsch said in an interview Wednesday, with the long-range jets replacing Airbus A330 widebodies currently used by Oman Air on some long-haul routes. The deal would have a...

IndiGo receives Asia’s first A320neo aircraft

As the launch customer of the A320neo, IndiGo has been waiting eagerly to take delivery of the planes that will help it cut fuel costs by 10-15% InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which runs the IndiGo low-fare airline, said on Twitter that it will take delivery of Asia’s first A320neo aircraft on Thursday from European plane maker Airbus SAS. “IndiGo took delivery of the new A320neo aircr...

Why Airplane Wings Angle Backwards, Explained in 4 Minutes

In the 1940s, most planes had straight wings. Even the Bell X-1 that broke the sound barrier for the first time had straight wings. But a straight-winged aircraft can run into major stability issues when it gets flying at transonic speeds. In 1941, a Lockheed test pilot named Ralph Virden lost control of his P-38 Lightning in a dive and died in a crash. This prompted an engineer named John Stac...

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