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18/07/2019

Emirates just launched the world’s shortest A380 route

Emirates, the Middle East airline operating primarily out of Dubai, has launched the world’s shortest commercial flight using an A380 superjumbo.

On Monday, the UAE carrier used an A380 to ferry passengers from Dubai to Muscat in Oman, a distance of 211 miles (340 km). According to Emirates the flight took just 41 minutes.

The airline claimed in a tweet that the electrical wiring used on a single Airbus A380 stretches out to around 160 kilometers longer than the journey.

Emirates said the service, which will run twice daily until at least September 2020, is scheduled to be in the air for only 5 minutes longer than it takes the usual team of 42 people to clean the aircraft.

The airline added that you would need to fly the route 3,000 times to be able to watch all of the inflight entertainment system.

Both A380s flying to Muscat will be operated in a three-class configuration, with 429 seats in Economy Class on the lower deck, and 76 flat-bed seats in Business Class and 14 First Class Private Suites on the upper deck.

Emirates is the world’s largest operator of the A380, with 111 double-decker aircraft flying to 57 cities from Dubai.

In February, the Middle East airline said it would max out its A380 inventory at 123 aircraft, with the remaining 12 planes to be delivered by the end of 2021.

At that point, Airbus stopped making the plane because of a lack of orders.
Information provider:CNBC

18/07/2019

Airline sends $106,000 bill to woman who tried to open doors mid-flight

A woman who allegedly caused two fighter jets to be scrambled to es**rt a plane she was traveling on has received an £85,000 ($106,000) bill by the airline

In a statement posted on its website, Jet2 said 25-year-old Chloe Haines had tried to open the door of a plane midway between London’s Stansted Airport and Dalaman in Turkey.

The alleged incident on June 22 led to passengers and crew restraining Haines while pilots rerouted the plane back to Stansted. The airline accused Haines of “a catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour.”

According to one media report a fellow passenger said that Haines then screamed: “get off me, I’m going to kill everyone.”′

Jet2, who said it has also banned Haines for life, said the U.K. Royal Air Force scrambled two Typhoon fighters to es**rt the aircraft. Jet2 added that the jet fighters caused a sonic boom in their rush to accompany the plane.

In its statement, Jet2 added that airport police boarded at Stansted to arrest Haines on suspicion of assault and endangering an aircraft.

Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays said Wednesday that the airline would “vigorously pursue to recover the costs that we incurred as a result of this divert, as we do with all disruptive passengers.”
Information from:CNBC

13/04/2019

Fleet down, Jet Airways cancels all international flights till Monday

Jet Airways, facing its worst existential crisis in its over 25-year-old history, Friday extended suspension of its international operations till next Monday due to severe liquidity issues.Jet Airways, facing its worst existential crisis in its over 25-year-old history, Friday extended suspension of its international operations till next Monday due to severe liquidity issues.

Incidentally, the stake sale bid invited by the SBI-led consortium of bankers, which manages the day-to-day operations of the airline, also closes by the end of the day Friday, after being extended by two days.

Airline founder Naresh Goyal, the UAE carrier Etihad Airways, Air Canada and the country’s national investment fund among others are reported to have submitted bids, according to media reports.

On Thursday, the airline had announced temporary grounding of its international operations - Jet was the largest international airline from the country till the financial crisis - when it had also suspended operations to the entire Eastern and Northeastern markets as Jet was forced to ground 10 more aircraft following default of lease rentals.This has left Jet with no large aircraft while it had just 14 planes for domestic operations as of late Thursday.

“Jet has decided to extend suspension of its international operations till Monday, due to severe cash crunch,” airline sources told PTI Friday.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) called an urgent meeting to discuss the crisis that Jet Airways, which is facing acute financial woes, is undergoing, news agency PTI reportedSaying that the airline was working to minimise guest inconvenience, a Jet Airways spokesperson said, “...The airline’s management and its key stakeholders including its consortium of lenders, continue to work closely towards resolving the current situation.”
On the domestic front, all Jet operations to and from the Eastern and Northeastern states were suspended till further notice. Following this, there would no Jet flights to and from Kolkata, Patna, Guwahati and other airports in the region, travel industry source had told PTI.

Jet had also said its Mumbai-Kolkata, Kolkata-Guwahati and Dehradun-Guwahati-Kolkata flights stood cancelled till further notice due to “operational reasons.”As of Thursday, the airline had just 14 planes--way down from 123 planes in operations till a few months back.

Of the 14 aircraft that it operated till Thursday evening, eight were wide-body B777s (seven) and an A330-- generally used for long-haul international operations

05/10/2018

Aviation: Hyderabad Airport is ranked World No. 1

GMR, which operates the Rajiv Gandhi International airport here, said S G K Kishore, CEO, GHIAL on Wednesday received the trophy from Joyce Carter, President and CEO, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia at the ASQ awards ceremony, organised at the '2018 ACI Customer Excellence Global Summit' at Halifax in Canada.
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd Thursday said it has received the Airports Council International Airport Service Quality World no.1 airport award trophy in the 5-15 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA) category for the second consecutive year.

The airport was adjudged World no 1 Airport in its category in 2016 as well, a press release from GMR said.

GMR, which operates the Rajiv Gandhi International airport here, said S G K Kishore, CEO, GHIAL on Wednesday received the trophy from Joyce Carter, President and CEO, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Nova Scotia at the ASQ awards ceremony, organised at the '2018 ACI Customer Excellence Global Summit' at Halifax in Canada.

Kishore said the award was a recognition of the airport's relentless efforts towards service excellence and customer delight. "It will be our endeavour to continuously raise the bar and exceed passenger expectations.

We are thankful to all our stakeholders, including the Ministry of Civil Aviation, CISF, Immigration, Customs and our service partners, including airlines, concessionaires, housekeeping and other support stafffor their constant support in helping us achieve this recognition," he said.

05/07/2018

Cramped Airline Passengers Could Benefit From Audit Of Emergency Airplane Exit Performance

There’s a sarcastically grisly name for the circumstances that may bring some longed-for relief to U.S. air travelers’ cramped legs: tombstone engineering.

It’s an old term that refers to the tendency of airlines, commercial jet makers and, most disturbingly, the Federal Aviation Administration, to wait until people die -- or come very close to doing so -- before taking action to correct a known safety hazard. And if you go back many decades and study the process that resulted in the installation (mandated or otherwise) of many, if not most of the safety features on which air travelers’ survival now depends, you’ll learn that they came about only after people died, or came perilously close in a crash or emergency incident.

The list of such features includes flame-resistant seats and interior materials, lighted exit pathways, emergency oxygen masks, seats that can withstand 16Gs of force, life vests, seat bottoms that double as floatation devices, strong and redundant locking systems on passenger and cargo doors, lavatory smoke detectors, and many more safety features all were all installed or mandated after a crash or other incident cost lives. And, sadly, in most of those cases the need for such safety devices had been recognized long before the incident that triggered their introduction. Typically their introduction was resisted by airlines based on cost concerns or the lack of hard evidence of their effectiveness.

Now, however, U.S. airlines could be forced to make their planes – or more specifically, their coach sections – a bit more comfortable as the result of a legitimate safety concern. The big question is whether such a change will be the result of tombstone engineering or enlightened, proactive actions taken by the FAA or the airlines themselves?

19/08/2017

Delta Welcomes First Airbus A350-900XWB to Atlanta Hub

Delta Air Lines welcomed its brand new Airbus A350-900XWB aircraft at its main hub in Atlanta, Ga early Sunday morning. The aircraft, registered as N501DN, took off from Toulouse, France behind schedule at 10:43 p.m. local time arriving at around 2 a.m. the same day.
To celebrate the new fleet type, Delta’s A350-900XWB will bear the fleet number ‘3501.’ This is the first A350XWB to be operated by a North American carrier.
This is the first of 25 A350 aircraft that Delta is waiting to receive from Airbus. The aircraft will be the first in the airline’s fleet equipped with the new Delta One Suites and a premium economy cabin layout, featuring 32 Delta One suites, 48 Delta Premium Select seats, and 226 economy seats.
In total, the aircraft will carry 306 passengers with a full load factor. The first commercial service for the new aircraft is currently scheduled to depart from Detroit to Tokyo-Narita on October 30, replacing a route dominated by the carrier’s iconic 747-400. The new A350 fleet type will replace the 747, which is affectionally known as the ‘Queen of the Skies.’

Detroit will become the first crew base for Delta’s A350 fleet. The Atlanta-based airline has said that the A350XWB will allow them to continue to grow within their Pacific network, operating on long-range routes from their hubs in the U.S.
The airline will also commence A350 service on alternating days between Detroit (DTW) and Beijing (PEK) on Jan. 17, 2018, until kicking off daily flights on February 23.

Delta is aggressively modernizing its fleet with cabin retrofits for older aircraft along with the addition of new Airbus A321 aircraft. These narrow-body jets feature mood-lighting, inflight entertainment, and larger overhead bin space.

The Airbus A350 is expected to generate a 20 percent improvement in operating costs per flight compared to the 747-400s. The carrier expects to take delivery of the second A350-900 in the coming weeks.

07/06/2017

Support dog bites passenger on Delta plane in Atlanta

A passenger on a Delta Airlines flight was bit on the face by a veteran's emotional support dog while on a plane in Atlanta.

"There was a call for help, you could hear dog growling and a bark. And someone screaming, 'I need help there is a medical emergency,'" said passenger Bridget Maddox-Peoples.

The incident occurred Sunday on a flight preparing to take off from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, according to WAGA-TV.

The Labrador mix, weighing about 50 pounds, was in the middle seat with its owner and the victim was in the window seat, according to a witness.

The gentleman in front of the victim and the dog owner indicated that he had cause for alarm.

"The dog had been growling at the gentleman and the gentleman said, 'is this dog going to bite me?' three times and there was no effort to remove the dog off the plane," Maddox-Peoples said.

It was unclear what led up to the attack. The victim was taken to the hospital.

Maddox-Peoples said Delta's flight crew immediately got help and paramedics walked the man off the plane. She said the man was noticeably shaken up.

"The area was completely covered in blood. They came in and sanitized the area and replace the airplane seats," she said.

Delta issued the following statement: "Prior to pushback of flight 1430, ATL-SAN, a passenger sustained a bite from another passenger's emotional support dog. The customer who was bitten was removed from the flight to receive medical attention. Local law enforcement cleared the dog, and the dog and its owner were re-accommodated on a later flight; the dog will fly in a kennel."

Another passenger said that the dog's owner was described by the flight crew as a "combat veteran" and that the man was cradling the dog in his arms in the gate area and that the crew saw him weeping, repeatedly saying, "I know they're going to put him down."

07/06/2017

Passengers jump from plane at Australian airport in bomb hoax: media

Passengers jumped from a plane at a rural Australian airport on Tuesday when a threatening note, which turned out to be a hoax, was found in the bathroom, police and media said, a day after a siege in Melbourne which police are treating as terrorism.

"Nothing was found, there was no actual threat to anybody, just a note, so there was nothing in it," a police spokeswoman who declined to give her name told Reuters.

Police said the 68-passenger turboprop plane with 42 passengers on board on a domestic flight was evacuated at the airport in Albury, in southern New South Wales, and a man was arrested.

Australian Associated Press quoted a passenger as saying he heard someone shout: "Leave your luggage. Get out and run, run, run." It said passengers jumped on to the tarmac.

"Police and emergency services attended Albury airport after receiving information a note was located in the toilet area," a New South Wales state police spokeswoman Emily Waters told Reuters.

"All passengers disembarked and a man was arrested within five minutes," Waters said, declining to provide further details.

25/12/2016

Airplane hijackers surrender, allow passengers and crew off Libyan plane in Malta

MALTA - Two hijackers who forced a Libyan plane to land in Malta and threatened to blow it up on Friday have released everyone on board and surrendered.

Authorities did not say if the pair had made any demands, but one of them was seen waving a green flag outside the aircraft, suggesting loyalty to former Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi.

The Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 carrying 111 passengers was on a domestic service in Libya, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.

Latest developments

The hijackers have been searched and taken into custody, Muscat said. All passengers and seven crew on board have been released. Flight was scheduled to travel from Sabha to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Incident caused flight diversions and delays.

Hijackers took control of the flight after it took from Sabha, a desert city in southwestern Libya. The crew reportedly wanted to land the plane in the Libyan capital but the hijackers forced them to divert to Malta, some 350 kilometers from the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Emergency services and security personnel were on standby when the plane landed late on Friday morning. Contacts with the hijackers, who threatened to blow up the aircraft with hand grenades, were led by the Maltese military, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Etienne Saint John.

By the early afternoon a group of women was allowed to leave the plane. Later, the remaining passengers and crew were seen leaving, smiling and chatting as they stepped off the plane and onto the tarmac.

Developments in the standoff were reported in real time by the Maltese prime minister's Twitter account.

Several flights to and from Malta's airport had earlier been delayed and some diverted to Italy.

Resident Carmen Nistor was waiting for her flight to Munich at the airport, saying passengers were frustrated as they had not been informed why there were delays.

Gadhafi loyalists

Sabha, the city where the flight begain its journey, has been a center for political tribal violence.

Deadly clashes still erupt there between tribes loyal to Gadhafi and anti-Gaddafi groups. Enmity runs deep between the Gaddadfa and Suleiman tribes, the most powerful armed factions in the region.

Gadhafi, who was a member of the Gaddadfa tribe, was ousted from power and assassinated by rebels in 2011 in the Arab Spring uprising.

Libya has struggled to install a stable government since then, and the leadership vacuum has allowed militant groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda to flourish there.

31/08/2016

Alaska Airlines passenger tried to open airplane door in flight, official says

An Alaska Airlines flight heading from New York City to Seattle was diverted to Minneapolis Monday when a passenger tried to open a rear door during the flight.

The Boeing 737 departed John F. Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:15 a.m. Eastern time and arrived in Minneapolis around 9:45 a.m. Central time.

"Our crew reported that a passenger tried to access one of the doors in the back galley, the rear boarding door," said Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Halley Knigge.

The unidentified man was not successful, Knigge said, explaining that opening the door of a plane in flight isn't possible because of differences in the air pressure inside and outside the plane.

The flight's crew tried to calm the agitated man down and then decided the plane would need to be diverted, she said. The spokesperson said she did not have additional details about the man's behavior.

Law enforcement boarded the plane and removed the unruly passenger, she said.

The airliner continued to Seattle with 180 passengers aboard, arriving at 1 p.m.

30/08/2016

Small airplane crashes in St. Charles County soybean field

ST. CHARLES COUNTY • The pilot of an ultralight, experimental airplane crashed in a St. Charles County soybean field Sunday after his engine cut off while he was attempting to land.

Upon landing, the airplane's landing gear collapsed, causing the aircraft to spin out of control. But the pilot walked away without injury, said Val Joyner, spokeswoman for the St. Charles County Police Department.

“Of course, he was shaken,” she said.

The crash occurred near Portage Road. Joyner said she didn't have the pilot's name or where he had begun his flight.

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