Reading Time: < 1 minute Large crowds gathered at Heathrow to watch the much-anticipated arrival of a British Airways Boeing 747 painted in the iconic design of its predecessor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The aircraft entered the IAC paint bay at Dublin Airport on February 5 where it was stripped of its current British Airways Chatham Dockyard design before […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute East Midlands, U.K. – based low-cost carrier flybmi has filed for administration, citing ‘Brexit uncertainty’ as a principal reason for the company’s demise, along with spiking “fuel and carbon costs.” The airline ceased trading on Saturday, cancelling all flights without warning and leaving thousands of holidaymakers stranded. According to a flybmi spokesperson: “The airline has […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Final assembly of the first A350-900 for Japan Airlines (JAL) has begun and is taking shape at the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse, France.  The wing-fuselage junction and the installation of the vertical and horizontal tailplane have been completed. After this station, the first JAL A350 XWB will be in the next assembly station […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Transavia France Boeing 737-800, performing flight from Lyon (France) to Tel Aviv (Israel), experienced severe turbulence which injured 13 people. Aircraft was enroute at FL370 about 260nm westnorthwest of Tel Aviv when the aircraft encountered turbulence causing injuries to 13 people on board. Two doctors on board provided medical assistance to the injured over the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Airbus, the manufacturer of the world’s largest passenger aircraft, announced it will stop the production of its double-deck giant A380. The announcement came after the biggest customer for A380 aircraft, Emirates, reduced its orderbook from 162 to 123 aircraft. “As a result of this decision we have no substantial A380 backlog and hence no basis […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute IAG, the owner of British Airways, announced that it stops selling its shares to non-EU investors. Under the EU rules, at least 50% of an airline’s stock must be EU-owned. Currently, the amount of shares owned by non-EU investors in the IAG reaches 47.5 per cent. IAG Group includes 5 airlines: Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In 2018 Lufthansa, the largest German airline, sued one of its passengers for intentionally skipping the last of its connecting flights. Reportedly, the flight was from Seattle to Oslo with a stopover in Frankfurt. As flight fares are subject to market forces, and therefore do not necessarily correlate to the distance flown, people are usually […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Privately owned Ukrainian start-up low-cost carrier (LCC) and charter airline SkyUp Airlines, which launched operations in May of last year, carried 441,600 passengers on 2,322 flights in its first seven months of operations, a figure below the originally hoped-for 650,000. The hybrid carrier, which operates flights on behalf of holiday travel company JoinUp! proclaims that it […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A British Airways Airbus A320-200, performing flight BA-993 from Berlin Tegel (Germany) to London Heathrow (UK), reported fumes in flight deck and cabin. Aircraft was enroute at FL360 near Amsterdam when the crew reported that there had been fumes briefly on the flight deck, which quickly dissipated, however, strong fumes occurred in the cabin prompting cabin […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Aeromexico Boeing 787-8, performing flight from London Heathrow (UK) to Mexico City (Mexico) with 237 people on board, reported air conditioning problem. Aircraft was climbing out of London when the crew stopped the climb at FL260 but continued in the general direction of Mexico City. About 35nm southeast of Isle of Man (UK) the crew […]