Set foot into Chanel's latest pop-up store here, and you'd swear you were at a real airport. A really stylish airport, let me add. For 12 days, On Pedder's sprawling one-storey space at Scotts Square has been transformed into an airport-themed plaza by the French luxury house. Run by the uber chic "Chanel Airlines", customers are treated to a VIP-only airport termi...
The U.S. Air Force is requesting information from industry on technologies that could produce lower-cost engines for future subsonic “Group 5” unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the largest vehicles in the fleet with sizes and capabilities similar to the General Atomics Reaper or Northrop Grumman Global Hawk. The request is linked to the Air Force’s Low Cost Attritable Aircraft...
The 20 planes will include a Boeing 787, six Boeing 737s for Air India Express and 13 ATR aircraft to improve regional connectivity. Air India Ltd will add 20 planes to its feet in the coming fiscal year to expand its international and regional footprint, a spokesperson said on Monday. The airline, together with its subsidiaries, has a fleet of 135 aircraft—the largest in India. The...
Polish police say they have detained 21 people in connection with a false bomb threat that caused 800 people to be evacuated and four flights to be diverted from an airport near the capital. The bomb threat occurred late Sunday and affected Warsaw’s Modlin Airport, which is north of the capital and serves budget airlines. Dawid Marciniak, a police official, said Monday that police trac...
From now there is no more flights Air France (or HOP!) to take you from Strasbourg to Paris/Orly. Well, there are not many people are sad of this situation. You will find an online petition on Change.org asking to keep the commercial activity between the two airports. But the document only obtained 248 signatures on behalf of that decision. On the social network, you can also find some tweet...
Hair stylist Bridget Nhire has been banned for life by British Airways after getting up to stretch her legs through a flight from London to Dubai. Bridget Nhire, 33, was left in tears when she was handcuffed and escorted off the flight after the passenger behind her complained that she kept walking around. …Ms Nhire, from Uxbridge, said: ‘He was telling me to sit down and I said...
The excavation of a Spitfire from its wartime crash site has set the standard for future aviation digs, England's historic environment body has said. The plane crashed in Holme Fen in Cambridgeshire in November 1940, killing Pilot Officer Harold Penketh. Historic England said involving forces veterans in the dig made it "an exemplar for future such endeavours". Veteran Gary...
A passenger plane captain kept flying without alerting Auckland air traffic controllers even after smashing into seven runway lights, sending debris flying. The Chilean LAN Airlines captain lost his bearings taking off from Auckland before correcting himself, an investigation has found. The lights, standing some 30cm off the ground, were wrecked when the Airbus A340 carrying 1...
A battle over background checks for Uber drivers at the world's busiest airport comes as cities like Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, consider more thorough screenings to prevent criminals from getting behind the wheel. Uber has objected to the Atlanta airport's plan to use fingerprints to check criminal records of its drivers, saying its own record checks are sufficient. But the distr...
The Osaka Prefectural Police and the transport ministry are investigating Saturday’s fatal plane crash at Yao Airport as a case of professional negligence resulting in death. According to the ministry and the airport, a four-seater Mooney M20C bound for Yao left Kobe Airport at 4:03 p.m. but crashed while attempting to land at about 4:20 p.m., killing all four occupants. The plane went...
Irish Olympian Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe has hit out at Aer Lingus after he was ejected from a flight for having 'fencing equipment'. The 24-year-old, who competes in the modern pentathlon, had been travelling to a competition as he steps up his preparations for this year's Rio Olympics when he was asked to leave his flight. Commenting on Facebook, he wrote: "I dedicate my...
A new iOS and Android app can help you prepare for airplane emergencies. You know that part of the flight most people don't pay attention to, when the flight attendants are waving their arms? Well — and this might come as a shock, so bear with us — that part is pretty important. Those strange hand movements and weird demonstrations are meant to teach you what to do in case of...
A classic plane crash at the Wanaka Airport on Monday morning occurred after the plane veered on landing and then a wheel collapsed. Two people were uninjured in the crash, which happened during an attempt to land in a 1943 Harvard aircraft about 9.30am. Warbirds Over Wanaka General Manager Ed Taylor said the aircraft involved in the incident had performed at the airshow on&n...
Nearly 170 people onboard a Jet Airways flight from Delhi had to be evacuated at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Sunday after authorities received a threat about a bomb on the plane, briefly halting flight operations. An unidentified person made a call to the airport authorities saying that explosives have been planted onboard the Jet Airways Flight 260 that took off...
Belgian police investigating the deadly Brussels airport blasts that killed 28 travellers have concluded their investigations on site, officials say. A provisional survey of the terminal found the main building was stable. Meanwhile, a Belgian news agency says prosecutors charged a second man in connection with a foiled attack in the Paris region. There is no confirmation. Belgian police...
Kazakh pilots safely landed a passenger plane without the use of its front wheels after a malfunction in the aircraft’s front landing gear on Sunday. The incident took place when the Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakh airline ‘Bek Air’, which had departed from Kyzylorda, was landing at Astana International Airport on Sunday morning. The pilots realized the front wheels wer...
Oman’s Public Authority for Civil Aviation (PACA) will raise fees charged for air traffic through the sultanate, the authority’s chief executive Mohammed Al Zaabi told the official Oman News Agency. The decision is part of a series of steps by Oman to strengthen state finances as it grapples with a big budget deficit caused by low oil prices. In January it cut domestic gasoline p...
Qatar Airways has signed a three-year sponsorship of Team Qatar Airways and Official Airline Sponsor to the Beach Polo Cup Dubai, commencing 2016 through to 2018. Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheik Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum for a second consecutive year, the Beach Polo Cup Dubai will take place 1-2 April and brings together polo enthusiasts from around the world, tog...
A Russian TV station has published a transcript of the last words exchanged between the crew one minute before the Boeing 737 hit the ground. A TV station has aired the final words of the pilot manning the FlyDubai passenger jet that crashed in Rostov-on-Don killing 62 people. The transcript suggests that a pilot error could be to blame for last week's disaster. However formal investi...
An easyJet flight from Vienna to London was halted just before takeoff on Saturday because a passenger believed the man sitting next to her might be an Islamic extremist, authorities said. “The woman believed that she saw messages related to IS (Islamic State) on the man’s mobile phone,” Austrian interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck told AFP. The wom...
AMY JOHNSON In 1930, Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia and did so with very little flying experience. She had only received her license in 1929, learning to fly at the London Aeroplane Club at Stag Lane, but she was an impressive secretary-turned-pilot who earned an aircraft ground engineer's license as well. Flying a Gipsy Moth named Jason, Jo...
