Airlines

The British Airways flight from London City was due to land shortly before 5pm on September 12 when the small aircraft was seen heading in its direction, Glasgow Live reports. It is understood that the aircraft was immediately ordered by air traffic controllers to cancel take-off. Satellite imagery on Flightradar24 shows the plane heading towards the airport before doing a loop around. This is known as a go-around and is a standard procedure which does not affect the safety of those on board. The aircraft later returned to the runway after it was confirmed to be safe to do so.  A video from the incident, also recorded...

Ho Chi Minh-Ville (VNA) – La compagnie aérienne Vietjet offre à ses passagers un cadeau d'automne avec une réduction de 50 % (hors taxes et frais) sur les billets d'avion en classe d'affaires et SkyBoss. La promotion est valable du 25 septembre au 25 octobre 2023 et s'applique aux vols nationaux et internationaux avec des horaires de vol flexibles jusqu'à fin février 2024. Un avion de Vietjet (Photo : Vietjet) Les passagers doivent réserver leurs billets sur le site Web www.vietjetair.com, sur l'application Vietjet Air, dans les guichets et aux filiales officielles de Vietjet dans le monde entier. Pour bénéficier...

United Airlines is making it easier for wheelchair users to book travel and fly. By early next year, United is promising new tools on its website that will alert wheelchair users to which aircraft can accommodate different-sized wheelchairs. It also says it will refund the fare difference if a higher-fare flight is needed to accommodate a specific wheelchair size. "By offering customers an easy way to know if their personal wheelchair fits on a particular airplane, we can give them the peace of mind they deserve when they fly with us," said Linda Jojo, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer...

American Airlines flight attendants voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike this week. That puts more pressure on the carrier to meet their demands over pay raises and comes ahead of one of the year's busiest holiday travel weekends.Here & Now's Robin Young gets the latest from transportation analyst Seth Kaplan.This segment aired on August 31, 2023. Read further.

Jozsef Varadi, el máximo responsable de Wizz Air, se prodiga poco en los medios, pero cuando lo hace habla claro. En Il Sole, el periódico económico, reproducido por TTGItalia, el portal digital del turismo de ese país, ha afirmado que “de aquí a diez años, en los vuelos interiores europeos sólo quedaremos nosotros y Ryanair” (Ryanair se lanza a por un mercado dominado por Wizz Air). Lo dice convencido de que ser hoy el tercer operador dentro de Italia le garantiza un futuro prometedor. Sólo en ese país, Wizz Air alcanza los 12 millones de clientes anuales, con bases en...

If you thought you were mad with Delta Air Lines over its operational performance and especially recently announced changes to its SkyMiles program, you likely have nothing on one guy who created his own complaint t-shirt detailing every gripe he has with the Atlanta-based airline. The t-shirt details ‘reasons why not to fly Delta Air Lines’, but the funny thing is that the man is wearing the shirt onboard a Delta plane, which poses the obvious question: Why isn’t this guy following his own advice? Rather than taking aim with the wildly unpopular changes that Delta has proposed for its...

Air India on Friday completed the acquisition of its first Airbus A350-900 aircraft through a finance lease transaction with HSBC, the Tata group carrier announced on Friday. Apart from being the first aircraft financing transaction from Air India’s massive 470-plane order, it is also the first such transaction by a scheduled airline through India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City).The transaction was facilitated by AI Fleet Services Limited (AIFS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India, and a GIFT IFSC-registered finance company, the Tata group airline said in a release. Air India...

JetBlue klaagt over krimp Schiphol, wil dat VS KLM aanpakken  deondernemer.nl Read further.

Korean Air is the latest airline to announce plans to weigh passengers before they board flights. While this sounds pretty humiliating, it’s all in the name of safety, according to the airline. Korean Air – the largest airline in South Korea – announced on its website that it intends to weigh passengers, plus their carry-ons, at two Seoul airports during certain times. Those flying from Gimpo Airport on domestic routes could be weighed from August 28 to September 6, and those flying from Incheon International Airport between September 8-19. According to Simple Flying, airlines need to periodically reassess average passenger weights...