Larry Vance, a leading flight investigator who has led over 200 investigations, has indicated that he feels there is “definite evidence” which backs up his theory that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the sea. This news comes only days after it was revealed that pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Captain
Despite the safe evacuation of all passengers and crew on board an Emirates Boeing 777 which crash landed at Dubai Airport at 12.55pm local time, one firefighter was killed shortly afterwards while tackling the blaze which engulfed the whole aircraft. The airline’s chair and chief executive, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, said: “We pay
Despite IndiGo’s reported increase in operational revenue of 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year, the figure of INR45.8 billion for Q1 2017 has resulted in a net profit of only INR5.29 billion, a drop of 7.4% compared to Q1 2016. Aditaya Ghosh, IndiGo president, confirmed that profitability had fallen “primarily because of competitive
It was in January 2015 that Qatar Airways first acquired a stake in International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), buying 9.9% of the company for approximately £1.2 billion (US$1.7 billion), shortly after which it increased this stake to 10.01%. In May this year it increased that stake to 15.01% with the acquisition of a further 5%
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) has released information that a home flight simulator owned by the captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has been examined by the FBI and that he had plotted a route similar to the path the missing airliner is thought to have taken when it vanished
Despite the US Department of Trade (DOT) granting tentative permission for Norwegian Air International to operate between the European Union (EU) and the US, the EU has given notice that it intends to arbitrate over whether NAI should have access to the US market. EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc sent a letter to the U.S.
A major hurdle has been overcome with regard to the implementation of internationally agreed rules on airliner pollution in the USA. The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has ruled that greenhouse gases emitted from aircraft endanger public health. The finding now requires that the EPA regulates greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft under the Clean AirAct.
At what can only be described as the worst possible time of the year, Air France cabin crew, which are represented by two unions – SNPNC-FO and UNSA-PNC – have voted to strike for seven days over a new collective agreement. The action will run between July 27 and August 02 inclusive. Air France has
It has been a difficult year so far for easyJet, the UK’s largest low-cost carrier. Having seen a significant rise in cancellations in the last three months (1,221 as opposed to 726 for Q3, 2015) as a result of air traffic control strikes, runway closures at London Gatwick Airport, the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804,
A new Dashboard Performance Management Scheme introduced by British airways to regularly assess the performance of cabin crew has seen 8,800 members of the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), a section of Unite which is the UK’s largest trade union, decide to vote on whether to take industrial action in an attempt to
