Reading Time: 2 minutes Gatwick Airport has achieved the busiest single month in its 80 year history as 4.6m passengers travelled through the airport in July, +6.9% on the same month last year. Long-haul routes continue their impressive growth at the airport, growing 23% collectively versus last July, against a backdrop of traffic growth stalling at other major European […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Thursday night flight carrying 222 passengers from New York City to Paris was forced to turn around after the crew realized the aircraft’s door might have been open. It turned out to be a false alarm. “Delta flight JFK to Paris. Two hours in, captain realizes that the cargo light is on because the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Airlander 10, known in Britain as “the Flying Bum” because of its unique structure, has slowly edged its way out of a hangar in central England ahead of its debut flight as a civilian aircraft. Purchased by Britain-based aviation company Hybrid Air Vehicles in 2013, the 92m helium-filled airship was originally developed for the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Russian airlines taking part in Far East subsidy program have carried more than 238,000 passengers from April 1 through end of July 2016. The airlines have sold 390,000 subsidized tickets, worth RUB2.6 billion ($40.1 million), according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia. Nine airlines take part in the program, including Aeroflot, UTair and Ural […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A flight travelling to Mallorca has diverted to Manchester Airport after a bird was sucked into one of its engines. The Thomas Cook Airlines flight TCX47MG departed from Glasgow at 6.17am and was due to arrive in Spain. But the plane made an unscheduled landing at around 6.45am at Manchester Airport. The Thomas Cook flight […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Capacity cuts and adverse geopolitical events in the competitive European market during the second quarter of 2016 led to a 9.4 per cent decrease in sales to 970.6 million euros (Q2 2015: 1.07 billion euros). Total sales declined in the first half of 2016 by 8.4 per cent to 1.71 billion euros (H1 2015: 1.86 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hong Kong-based Learning and Learning Technology provider, Peak Pacific Limited, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Seattle-based CA Training Solutions for cooperation in the area of Cabin Crew training solutions. The MoU paves the way for Peak Pacific and CA Training to collaborate and design, develop, and market eLearning content products for the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Emirates recently enhanced its presence in Southeast Asia with the launch of a new daily linked service from Dubai to Yangon (RGN) in Myanmar, and onwards to Hanoi (HAN) in Vietnam. This new service, which is being operated with a Boeing 777-300ER, expands the airline’s network in Southeast Asia to 12 cities in seven countries […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Egypt Air Training Center hopes to expand its training capabilities in the African continent after being in a co-operation with Rwand Air. The training centre was recently in discussions with Rwand Air to discuss ways of mutual cooperation, and meet the airline’s training needs in the field of of engineers, pilots and cabin crew, air […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oman Air has announced further expansion to its global network with a new destination starting in September 2016. The flights will operate from Oman Air’s hub in Muscat to Najaf, in Iraq with four weekly flights. Flights to Najaf will start on 15th September 2016.This is Oman Air’s first destination in Iraq, and the carrier […]