Beijing’ second international airport shaped like a starfish has been completed after five years of construction. The new airport will be able to handle 72 million passengers a year by 2025, and 100 million by 2040. The building was designed by Anglo-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016. Vijay Mallya get permission to appeal…
Vijay Mallya had been granted permission by a London court to appeal the UK’s decision to extradite him to India. There’s a “real risk” that political pressures “ will undermine the fairness of any trial”. Mallya said He also claimed that Barrack 12 of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail is “unbearably hot in the summer” and…
Boeing has received a boots for its grounded 737 Max Jet after AIG, the airline group which owns British Airways signed a letter of intent to order 200 of the planes. The airline group said it was confident that the Boeing planes would return to service in the coming months. Boeing is currently trying…
178- year-old Thomas Cook shares were branded worthless yesterday, which triggered a collapse in the value of UK’s oldest travel business and alarming customers scheduled to go on holiday this summer to its ,holiday resorts around the world. The iconic groups shares fell 40 per cent after Citigroup said it was at risk of vicious…
Myanmar National Airlines pilot landed his Embrarer 190 plane carrying 89 people safely with no front wheel in Myanmar’s Mandalay on Sunday after the aircraft’s landing gear failed. All the passengers and crew members inside the plane were relieved they were Sade. The touchdown was the second instance of a malfunctioning flight in less than…
Forty-one people died after a Russian Aeroflot Sukhoi Super jet 100-95, SU1492 carrying 73 people and 5 crew made an emergency landing burst into flames after take off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport at 18:02 local time (15:02 GMT) bound for Murmansk. The crew sent a distress SOS signal when “malfunctions” occurred in bad weather. After…
In line with previous warnings of the consequences of a hard Brexit, Bombardier is looking to dispose its operations in Northern Ireland, where the Canadian Aerospace Group is on the biggest employers with a workforce of 3, 600. During the restructuring their planned disposal includes operations in Morocco, alongside a wider restructuring of its aerospace…
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, CEO of Emirates and president of Dubai’s Civil Aviation Authority, one of Boeing’s largest customer has threatened to order aircraft from its arch-rival, and seek compensation for the grounding of 14 737 Max jets at Emirates’ sister airline Flydubai, which has more than 230 on order. He added that…
Concorde had completed 25 years of successful flights whisking wealthy passengers from rock stars to diplomats to corporate titans – between continents flying twice the speed of sound. This is a tale of Concorde crash, the investigation into its causes and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future. Charles Lindbergh in his Spirit…
Simone Burns (50), a human rights lawyer who spat at a flight attendant and was filmed shouting at Air India cabin crew in a racist and foul mouthed tirade during a nine-hour flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow last November was initially served with 3, 25cl bottles of wine on the flight then refused to…