Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air reported a considerable rise in passenger numbers for April as air travel continued to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The budget airline carried over 3.62mln passengers in April, a surge of 542% from the same month last year, with capacity jumping 355.7% to 4.34mln seats. The load factor that measures the percentage of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the inaugural flight from Melbourne to Hanoi launched on April 27, Bamboo Airways became the first Vietnamese airline to operate this route. On April 27, Bamboo Airways’ flight QH82 took off at Noi Bai International Airport, marking the airline’s first regular nonstop route connecting Hanoi with Melbourne. The new service helps shorten travel time […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Airbus and ITA Airways have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on urban air mobility in Italy. The two companies will explore the creation of tailored UAM services, by identifying strategic use cases for emission-free mobility solutions. Alfredo Altavilla, Chairman of ITA Airways, said: “The partnership between ITA Airways and Airbus started with the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A brand new Icelandic airline Niceair is launching flights between London Stansted and Akureyri within the north of Iceland to operate twice-weekly. Niceair will begin working the route with a 150-seater Airbus A319 in an all-economy configuration from June third. “The company’s goal is to secure scheduled flights year-round to foreign destinations from Akureyri Airport. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair has announced its biggest ever investment in Kraków, worth $800 million: 73 routes are planned, including 10 new ones, at its largest Polish base for the summer season. The airline will be operating 260 flights a week, over 40 more than it did in 2019, Michał Kaczmarzyk, CEO of Polish-based Ryanair subsidiary Buzz, said […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute On April 21, Poland’s Warsaw Chopin Airport was temporarily closed after a bomb threat to an Emirates flight from Dubai. Emirates EK177 was flying to Warsaw Chopin Airport when it received a message from air traffic control about “hazardous materials” onboard. Further in the conversation with the controller, the pilot was informed it was a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two prominent flight control experts and whistleblowers — one ex- Boeing, one ex- FAA — have submitted a proposal to the U.S. Senate committee overseeing aviation to upgrade Boeing’s 737 MAX cockpit to current design standards. According to Seattle Times, the crew alerting system is outdated, has published a detailed report about it. Boeing may […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute LOT Polish Airlines signed a contract with the global aviation logistics specialist Menzies to double the number of airports where the two companies cooperate. In North America, Menzies will provide passenger and ramp services at Los Angeles International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport. In Europe, it will support LOT at Iasi International Airport and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russian military forces destroyed an airport in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, and five emergency workers were injured. “There has been another attack on Dnipro airport. There is nothing left of it,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Sunday. “The airport itself and the infrastructure around it has been destroyed. Rockets […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Japan plans to ease COVID 19-related border restrictions and lift its entry ban for foreign nationals from 106 countries, such as the United States, Britain, France, etc. On Wednesday, the foreign ministry said that foreigners from the 106 countries would not be denied to enter Japan from Friday. However, foreigners with tourist purposes were still […]