Tag: Aviation

French traffic controllers’ strike disrupts European air travel

  Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, France (AFP) by Alexandre MARCHAND Around 1,000 flights to and from France were cancelled Friday as the country’s air traffic controllers went on strike, with their action also causing delays across European airspace. France’s DGAC civil aviation authority said 16 airports were operating a skeleton service, as were traffic control centres guiding planes overflying French territory at high altitude. But several regional airports were closed and the DGAC warned of […]

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Typhoon Muifa lashes eastern China, forcing 1.6 million from their homes

  SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — High winds and heavy rain lashed China’s densely populated east coast on Thursday, after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes and grounded most flights at Shanghai’s main airports. Muifa is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Shanghai — home to more than 25 million people — since record-keeping began in 1949, state broadcaster CCTV said. However, there were no immediate reports of any deaths or […]

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All Shanghai passenger flights cancelled as typhoon nears

  Shanghai, China (AFP) All passenger flights at Shanghai’s two international airports have been cancelled as Typhoon Muifa nears landfall on China’s east coast, the airport operator said Wednesday. “Shanghai Airport Group will announce flight adjustments at both airports to the public in a timely manner, in line with the typhoon’s impact,” the firm said in a social media statement. Typhoon Muifa is expected to make landfall at around 7:00 pm on Wednesday (1100 GMT), […]

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Lufthansa back in private hands as govt sells rescue stake

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Lufthansa said Wednesday the German state had sold the stake it took in the airline as part of a rescue package at the peak of the Covid pandemic, and booked a healthy profit in the process. In the spring of 2020, borders were shutting worldwide, forcing airlines everywhere to ground planes and put staff put on forced leave. To save Lufthansa from bankruptcy, the German government took a 20-percent stake in […]

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Two Air France pilots suspended over cockpit dust-up

  Paris, France (AFP) French carrier Air France has suspended two pilots after a heated disagreement in which “inappropriate gestures were exchanged” in the cockpit of a Geneva-Paris flight in June, the company said Monday. “Following an argument between the two pilots at the controls of an Airbus A320… inappropriate gestures were exchanged,” Air France said. “The pilots involved are currently suspended from flying and awaiting a managerial decision about how to deal with the […]

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Amsterdam airport to compensate chaos-hit travellers

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport said it will compensate passengers who missed flights due to huge queues in a chaotic summer at one of Europe’s busiest hubs. Like several others in Europe, the Dutch airport has experienced major disruption in recent months because of staff shortages as the airline industry recovers from the Covid pandemic. “A lot of people have really been looking forward to their holidays abroad, especially after two […]

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Air France-KLM flies back to profit

PARIS, France (AFP) — French-Dutch airline Air France-KLM said Friday it flew back into profit the in the second quarter for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, but its performance was hampered by a global shortage of airport staff. “The strong recovery we see this summer is putting the entire aviation industry to the test,” said chief executive Benjamin Smith. “While Air France-KLM had prepared for close to pre-pandemic demand levels, our airlines are […]

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Amanda Lee named first female pilot in US navy aviation team

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Navy’s famed aerial display team, the Blue Angels, named Lieutenant Amanda Lee on Monday as its first female pilot to fly fighter aircraft. Lee, of Mounds View, Minnesota, was one of six new officers selected for the 2023 air show season, the navy said in a statement. After a five-month training program, she will fly F/A-18 “Super Hornet” for the navy’s elite demonstration team founded in 1946. Lee […]

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Passenger jet catches fire while landing at Miami airport

MIAMI, June 22, 2022 (AFP) –  Officials arrived in Miami Wednesday to investigate a passenger jet that caught fire as it touched down at the US city’s international airport, forcing more than 100 people to flee the burning and mangled aircraft. Three people were hospitalized after the crash of Red Air Flight 203 late Tuesday, according to Miami-Dade fire officials, but no deaths or serious injuries have been reported among those on board. Dramatic video […]

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Air industry recovery gathering pace despite uncertainty: IATA

by Tangi QUEMENER Air passengers are expected to hit 83 percent of pre-pandemic levels this year and the aviation industry’s return to profit is “within reach” in 2023 despite ongoing uncertainty, the International Air Transport Association said on Monday. Industry losses are expected to drop to $9.7 billion this year, a “huge improvement” from $137.7 billion in 2020 and $42.1 billion in 2021, IATA said in an upgraded industry outlook ahead of its annual general […]

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Bodies pulled from wreckage of Nepal plane

  by Sagar GHIMIRE Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said Monday. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning headed for Jomsom, a popular trekking destination. Resuming a search on Monday […]

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Hundreds stranded after ransomware attack on Indian airline

Hundreds of Indian air travellers were stranded inside their planes after the low-cost airline SpiceJet cancelled or delayed flights due to an “attempted ransomware attack”, the company has said. Many angry passengers, some of whom were left waiting inside their planes for up to five hours earlier this week, complained about a lack of communication from the budget carrier. “Certain SpiceJet systems faced an attempted ransomware attack last night that impacted our flight operations,” the […]

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