A Thomson Airways flight TOM 2570 from Manchester to Heraklion in Isle of Crete (Greece) was forced to divert to Bulgaria after a drunk passenger lit a cigarette in the plane toilet and had to be restrained by airline crew. This man’s misadventure meant nearly 180 passengers had to be diverted to Bulgaria and delayed…
Five people were killed after a small plane crashed on a highway in Mexico. The aircraft crashed onto a highway connecting the country’s capital Mexico City with the central state of Queretaro, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday 2nd June 2015 Gerardo Quirarte Perez, head of the State Civil Protection Agency, told reporters that the…
The Irish government has backed the sale of its 25 per cent stake in Aer Lingus to International Airlines Group, parent company of British Airways and Spain’s Iberia. At the end, the fatal attraction of plugging Ireland’s national career into a far bigger network and diverting passengers who might have once travelled via London Heathrow…
A Cathy Pacific airline pilot due to fly more than 260 passengers from London to Hong Kong has been arrested at 21:20 BST on Saturday an hour before his flight due to take off, for allegedly possessing knives. Police were called to the airport’s staff search area at 9.10pm on Saturday following a “crew-related” incident…
Clive Jackson, the CEO of a travel company named Victor with about 18000 members, which offers on-demand charter jet booking, is just one of a number of apps serving a very lucrative user base—the ultra wealthy and corporate teams willing to pay for convenience. Victor bills itself as a product that “makes comparing, booking, and…
For the first time Rolls-Royce has received its largest order to date, worth £6.1bn ($9.2bn), to supply over 200 Trent 900 engines for 50 Emirates super-jumbo A380 planes, and TotalCare® support. Rolls-Royce will provide over 200 Trent 900 engines and, worth $9.2 billion, to Emirates for 50 new Airbus A380s The news enhanced Rolls-Royce’s share…
Vistara is an Indian airline joint venture from Tata Sons and Signapore Airlines based in New Delhi commended operations on 9th January 2015, and till 31st March 2014 carried a total of 100,000 passengers. The airline operates 6 Airbus A320-232 within India and has197 weekly scheduled passenger service across 8 domestic destinations. Vistara is the…
A Chennai-Delhi Air India A319 flight AI143 with no passengers inside the plane was delayed by more than two hours after pilot Captain Manik Lal and aircraft engineer VT Kannan had a difference of opinion which ended up in a fight inside the cockpit on Saturday. The aircraft engineer was injured and was admitted to…
An easyJet flight made an emergency landing in Rome after an angry passenger punched a stewardess as he was ‘waiting too long for a sandwich’. The frustrated hungry passenger yelled : ‘I’ve been waiting for hours, I’m hungry’, before assaulting the young cabin crew member repeatedly injuring her and broke her glasses. Hunger makes people…
Air Canada flight crash landed amid heavy snow in the East Coast city of Halifax 23 passengers and crew suffered minor injuries. According to airlines the incident happened shortly after midnight , on their A320 flight carrying 133 passengers and 5 crews, from Toronto to Halifax . Sunday, March 29, 2015