Formula One Gran Prix brought thousands of visitors to Austin, now they're racing to airport to head home. Airport spox tells CBS Austin that ABIA is expected to set a new record for the single busiest day of passenger traffic. (cbsaustin.com) 更多...
United Airlines has revealed it is spending US$1.4 million per fortnight sending unvaccinated pilots onto paid leave because vaccinated co-workers refuse to fly with them. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Ryanair has set a target to power its flights using 12.5% sustainable aviation fuel by 2030, far more than the proposed EU sustainable fuel mandate. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Jacob Cefolia, 50, of Elmhurst,IL was found hanging from an uprooted tree Friday at the Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve, (suburban Chicago) authorities said. Officials said there were no signs of foul play. The former senior vice president of worldwide sales for Chicago-based United, Cefolia had been reported missing on Aug. 8, 2020. The mystery surrounding his disappearance quickly garnered widespread media attention and prompted a sizable manhunt. (chicago.suntimes.com) 更多...
Australia Entry Requirements Quite simply, entry to Australia is still closed to most people. Everyone arriving in Australia is required to take a mandatory 14-day quarantine at a designated place near where they arrive, which they may need to pay for themselves. New Zealand Entry Requirements Travel to New Zealand is banned from Brazil, India, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea apart from citizens and their partners, children and dependants. All non-citizens will need a visa to enter. Anyone who… (www.getreading.co.uk) 更多...
A regional airline carrier that operates flights for four major airline companies including American Airlines and Delta Air Lines canceled hundreds of flights on Thursday and Friday, USA Today reported. "SkyWest experienced an internal technical issue, resulting in approximately 700 flight cancellations before the issue was resolved Thursday evening," the company said in a statement to USA Today. "We apologize to customers for the inconvenience; we are working to minimize the… (thehill.com) 更多...
A government watchdog said Friday that federal safety regulators routinely fail to ensure that American Airlines gets to the cause of maintenance shortcomings when they are discovered. (www.foxbusiness.com) 更多...
Frontier Airlines Flight 1159 from Norfolk to Orlando experienced a fume/odor event. Out of an abundance of caution, the aircraft diverted to Raleigh-Durham, and both passengers and crew exited the aircraft via evacuation slides," a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines told Fox News. (www.foxnews.com) 更多...
Air Belgium’s shiny new A330neos will be equipped with inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) from Panasonic Avionics, the company revealed this week. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Zurich Airport has received the prestigious World Travel Award for the best airport in Europe for the 18th year in succession. (www.aviation24.be) 更多...
A man was sitting in his backyard in Windsor, England, when raw sewage suddenly fell from the sky. According to a local councilor, his "whole garden, garden umbrellas, and him" were "covered" in poop. The councilor said that frozen sewage falling from the sky isn't unheard of, but this unfortunate ordeal is much rarer. A man was enjoying the sun in his backyard in Windsor, southeast England when a passing plane dropped toilet waste over him and his garden furniture, a… (www.yahoo.com) 更多...
Miami International Airport expects to hit two records this holiday season, one of them welcome. Airlines expect to sell more Miami tickets than ever this winter, wiping away MIA’s pandemic travel slump even as international flights continue to severely lag 2019 levels. With U.S. travel restrictions lifting next month on 39 countries for vaccinated travelers, MIA expects a surge in foreign arrivals, too. At the same time, police at MIA are reporting more trouble than ever, with “unruly… (www.yahoo.com) 更多...
The dramatic event of nearly two dozen people safely evacuating the passenger plane that crashed in Houston earlier this week has brought renewed attention to the survivability of air disasters. (www.foxnews.com) 更多...
The four main tired on a FlyEgypt Boeing 737-700 burst when landing in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on October 15th. The twinjet was flying in from Hurghada, Egypt, when the incident happened. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Burning off the preservation oil during the first start of a Rolls Royce Trent XWB engine on an Airbus A350-900 after a scheduled engine change (www.youtube.com) 更多...
On 15.10.2021 the longest commercial flight of Boeing 737-MAX8 OK-SWA of Smartwings airline took place. The flight time PUJ-ARN was 9:24 hours and the distance flown was 4532 miles. (flightaware.com) 更多...
Southwest’s cancelation extravaganza a couple of weeks ago wreaked havoc on the travel plans of tens of thousands of its customers. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Families and friends who lost loved ones in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX jet in 2019 today (Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021) are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to terminate the aircraft maker’s ability to certify its own aeroplanes, a provision allowed in a programme called the Organization Designation Authority (ODA) that allows third parties to perform functions of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). (www.aviation24.be) 更多...
David Neeleman is an aviation legend. Born in Sao Paulo, he has founded five commercial airlines, four of which are still operational and have become well-known names. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
JetBlue intends to use the A220 on 26 routes in September 2022, including from Boston to San Jose and Portland on the West Coast, along with two routes to Cancun. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
The Alaskan Seaplanes aircraft had six people on board – five passengers and a pilot. The flight was from Juneau International Airport to Skagway. (www.foxnews.com) 更多...
Skywest Airlines customers on Thursday faced frustrating flight delays and cancellations across the country following a computer glitch that lasted about five hours. Around 700 flights were canceled, affecting some of the largest U.S. airline operators, Reuters reported. SkyWest provides regional services for American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines. A SkyWest internal computer problem temporarily disabled operations for about five hours before it was fixed, and… (www.msn.com) 更多...
Peach Aviation, the low-cost arm of ANA, has launched an all-you-can-fly travel pass for domestic Japanese flights, valid throughout the whole of November. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will tell U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that the agency is taking a new stance in overseeing the safety efforts of airplane manufacturers like Boeing Co. (www.stltoday.com) 更多...
$604k to run Sydney-Darwin-London return According to RDC Aviation’s Apex Route Performance module, one Qantas round trip between Sydney and London via Darwin will have an operating cost of approximately AUD$604,000. This is based on a block time of 1,270 minutes, assumes full airport and passenger charges, and is based on fuel at USD 2.14 per US gallon. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
he said the man's "whole garden, and garden umbrellas, and him" were splattered in human waste dumped from a plane flying overheard. "I know a number of incidents happen every year with frozen sewage from planes, but this wasn't frozen and his whole garden was splattered in a very unpleasant way," she said, according to BBC. (www.ndtv.com) 更多...
“I went flying. I opened the door and then took her body out of the airplane over the ocean,” Bierenbaum told the parole board in December 2020, according to a newly obtained transcript. (nypost.com) 更多...
A proposal to lease two buildings at Newark Airport to Amazon for a 250,000-square-foot global air cargo campus was criticized in a report that charged the plan will hurt minority communities, take away high-paying union jobs and that it was done at the last minute without a chance for public comment. (www.nj.com) 更多...
Southwest Airlines continues its buying-mood by adding more Boeing MAX 7s to its fleet. During the third quarter, the carrier exercised options on eight aircraft for delivery in 2022 while on the first day of Q4 on October 1, it did the same for another eight for delivery in 2023, it said in its Q3-results. More firm orders are likely this year, as Southwest is not done yet with MAX orders. (airinsight.com) 更多...
American Airlines won’t automatically fire employees who aren’t vaccinated by the airline’s deadline, and Southwest Airlines won’t place unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave, according to recent updates by airline officials and unions. (www.webmd.com) 更多...
"We are prioritizing oversight of manufacturers and working to focus that oversight on safety-critical areas. We are delegating fewer responsibilities and demanding more transparency from them, and evaluating key assumptions prior to delegating functions in certain areas." (www.reuters.com) 更多...
Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia stripped off their uniforms Wednesday, wearing only undergarments in a silent, choreographed protest in central Rome (abcnews.go.com) 更多...
On Tuesday afternoon, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport said goodbye to a Boeing 777-300ER that had been parked there for 2.5 years. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
The A321 and A330 are gaining interest from cargo operators and Airbus needs more space to convert used passenger jets into cargo haulers. (www.freightwaves.com) 更多...
