Reading Time: < 1 minute Saudia, the national carrier of Saudi Arabia, has declared that it would be suspending flights in and out of Toronto from the 13 August. Announced over Saudia’s official Twitter account, the development is the latest in the deteriorating diplomatic relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia. As part of the ongoing row, Saudi Arabia has recalled […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Glasgow to Belfast City (UK) with 69 people on board, was climbing out of Glasgow’s runway when the crew needed to shut the left hand engine down. The airline confirmed the aircraft landed safely at Belfast City after a technical fault with the left hand engine […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Fraport AG signed an agreement to sell its entire 30 percent stake in Flughafen Hannover-Langenhagen GmbH (FHLG) to iCON Flughafen GmbH (iCON)  for 109.2 million euros. FHLG is the operating company of Hanover Airport in northern Germany. Fraport acquired shares in FHLG in two steps: initially 20 percent in 1998, followed by another 10 percent […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Rolls-Royce, a long-standing and reputed name in the aviation industry, utilised the opportunity of the biennial airshow to unveil its new electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle concept. Featuring a hybrid propulsion system, which will be capable of delivering approximately 500kW of electrical power, the eVTOL aircraft is expected to have a cruising speed […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lockheed Martin delivered the 52nd C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport modernized under the U.S. Air Force’s Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program (RERP). The delivery completes the RERP upgrade, which extends the service life of the C-5 fleet out until the 2040s. Lockheed Martin began RERP development work in 2001. RERP incorporates more than 70 improvements […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Jet Airways Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) to Mumbai (India) with 141 passengers and 7 crew, lined up with taxiway and commenced takeoff when the aircraft rejected takeoff, the aircraft veered right off the taxiway. The airline reported the aircraft rejected takeoff and departed the runway, everybody was evacuated. There were […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways will add its Airbus A350-1000 to the New York JFK route starting 28 October 2018, the airline’s first commercial route to the U.S. operated with this state-of-the-art aircraft. Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said: “We are thrilled to introduce the A350-1000 on flights to and from JFK, one of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Russian helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff in Siberia, killing all 15 passengers and 3 crew aboard. According to preliminary information, after take-off Mi-8AMT collided with the external load of the other helicopter, crashed about 2km from the airfield and caught fire. As a result of the crash everyone died. The crew of the other helicopter […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Swiss authorities have confirmed that all 20 passengers and crew onboard a vintage Junkers JU-52-HB-HOT were killed when the aircraft crashed in the Swiss Alps on Saturday. The plane was flying from Locarno, near Switzerland’s southern border, to the airline’s base in Dübendorf, a suburb of Zurich. Local Police confirmed a Junkers aircraft crashed at […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Being a flight attendant is not an easy task – you need to go through weeks of training and you will have the responsibility of guiding every passenger on board if an emergency situation ever happens. In a long line of flight attendants, quite a few showed bravery, strength and uniqueness. We would like to […]