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British Airways Pilot Safely Lands Plane When Only 3 Of 5 Landing Gear Sets Deploy

Reported By Passenger I just heard from a friend of mine (who reads the blog) that the pilot on her British Airways flight today pulled off a pretty remarkable feat. In the words of Nicole: I’m on this flight linked below and I though if you had a space to fill in an upcoming post...

Turkish Airlines and Boeing Sign Long-Term Collaboration Agreement

Turkish Airlines and Boeing, building on their 70-year relationship, today signed a collaboration agreement that will strengthen Turkish Airlines’ long-term industry leadership, as well as Turkey’s aerospace and technology capabilities. In the agreement, Turkish Airlines and Boeing ident...

FAA modernizes outdated medical requirements for trans pilots

With a set of significant improvements to the process by which transgender pilots can begin or complete a gender transition while still flying, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally making it easier for trans pilots to maintain their required medical certification without being needlessly grounded. The changes include simplifying the requirements for all transgender, transexua...

Panic on second American Airlines flight as mystery illness strikes

An American Airlines jet was forced to land in Brazil after a mystery illness struck for second time in a week, leaving four passengers and crew light-headed. The American Airlines flight was travelling from Brazil to the United States when three members of staff became ill, the Mirror reported. It was the second time this week American Airlines was forced to ground a plane after a mystery i...

What happens when you're born on an airplane?

Renewing a passport and border checks are not the easiest of tasks for Shona Owen thanks to the unusual location of her birth. About 36,000 feet in the air. To the constant bemusement of immigration officials, her passport reads: "Holder born on an aeroplane." Owen is one of a small community of people who made their entrance into the world in this most dramatic of ways. In 1...

Passenger Confuses Emergency Exit Door for Bathroom In-Flight in Israel

Israel’s Channel 2 news reported that a passenger who was traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport today attempted to open the door of the aircraft while it was in the air. According to the news reports, the flight crew stated that the passenger had mistakenly believed that the exit row door was actually the entrance to the bathroom! According to a passenger o...

An EgyptAir mechanic is accused of planting a bomb that blew up a Russian airliner

An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. So far Egypt has publicly said it has found no evidence that the MetroJet flight, which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh airport,...

‘Flight that sucked’: Air Canada plane abruptly drops 25,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed

A passenger on board an Air Canada flight from New Jersey to Vancouver captured the terrifying moment when the plane suddenly dropped in altitude and its oxygen masks were deployed. The emergency was prompted by a loss in pressure. Graphs from online flight monitoring software showed AC549 plummeting from more than 35,000 feet (10,000 meters) to just above 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). Busines...

Alaska Airlines Apologizes For Inviting Everyone To 'Meet Our Eskimo'

“Meet Our Eskimo!” What could go wrong? Alaska Airlines didn’t get the reception it expected for its new brand update. Alaska Air Group CEO Brad Tilden reportedly apologized for the company’s invitation to “Meet our Eskimo” in the unveiling of the revamp. The tweaked brand, which was released this week, included a “modernized” Eskimo mascot....

Air Malta to fly to/from 30 destinations this summer

Air Malta is planning an enhanced summer 2016 flight schedule that will see improved flight timings on Manchester, Catania, Vienna, Lyon and Marseille and increased frequency on Berlin. The Maltese airline will continue being the largest operator to London and the UK by offering a selection of 30 weekly flights to seven airports. With this schedule, running from the 27th March till 29th October, A...

Air Astana Signs Codeshare Agreement with Hong Kong Airlines

Air Astana has signed a codeshare agreement with Hong Kong Airlines, making it the Kazakh carrier’s seventh codeshare partner. Air Astana customers now have the opportunity to book tickets of both airlines to reach Hong Kong Airlines’ destinations in China, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. Air Astana operates services to Hong Kong twice weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) with a Boei...

ANALYSIS: Can cargo market ensure 747's future?

On 21 January, Boeing dealt another blow to the 747-8 programme, announcing that from September 2016 it will cut production from the current 1.3 aircraft per month to 0.5 per month. It is the fourth reduction in less than two years – output was already scheduled to drop in March to one aircraft per month – and shows how far, and how quickly, the 747's star has fallen. It is...

ANA confirms order for three A380s

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has confirmed that it has ordered three Airbus A380s that will be used on its Tokyo-Honolulu route. Parent company ANA Holdings says in a statement that the aircraft will be used to strengthen its position in the leisure and resort markets. “The A380 allows us to efficiently expand seating capacity at a lower cost per seat while offering a flexible range o...

Cathay Pacific rebrands Dragonair as Cathay Dragon

Not yet tossed the boarding pass from your last flight on Dragonair? Hold fire — you could be clutching a collector's item. Cathay Pacific, Dragonair's owners, have just announced that as of this month, the medium-haul carrier's name will vanish from Asia's airspace. In a repackaging exercise seen as an attempt to bolster the identity of both airlines, Dragonair plan...

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