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No-frills airline Ryanair is looking east for new aircraft.
On Tuesday, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary signed an agreement with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China to help the company develop its C919 twin-engine airliner. With the C919 Comac plans to challenge the Airbus/Boeing duopoly for single-aisle aircraft seating between 150 and 190 passengers. Read More…
At last, I get to fly on Airbus’s much-over-hyped A380 double-decker routesmasher.
This is an aircraft I’ve been as shy of as horses are of snakes. It’s that fly-by-wire thing I like the least, not to mention a few episodes that made the news recently such as when an engine on a Qantas A380 self-destructed in flight.
So, when I saw it waiting at my gate in Frankfurt, I was not much amused. Read More…
If you live anywhere near the approach paths to OR Tambo International, look up on Monday morning if you want to see commercial aviation’s biggest creation of the past decade. Read More…
Airbus has delivered its 6 000th aircraft – an A380 double-decker to Emirates – since the company began building aeroplanes 40 years ago. Read More…
It flies!
At 10:15 local time this morning in Seville in Spain, the Airbus A400M military transport prototype took to the air for the first time. Read More…
Air India has grounded two of its pilots pending an investigation into an in-flight brawl that apparently took place at cruising altitude in front of a planeload of horrified passengers.
The aircraft was en route from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Delhi when the fighting started after a stewardess accused a co-pilot of sexual harassment.
According to reports, the cockpit of the Airbus A320 was unattended at one point as the scuffle continued. The pilot also threatened to divert the flight to Pakistan.
Two pilots and two cabin crew have been grounded while the carrier investigates the matter.
Air India was in the news earlier in the year for firing air hostesses for being overweight. That case is now before the Supreme Court.
That was one of the great lines from the classic film Withnail & I, when Withnail, red-eyed and boozed to the point of staggery, approaches Jake, the flint-eyed poacher, and asks him about the purloined pheasants he has stashed about his person.
In recent weeks, one might have asked similar questions about any South African Airways 747 flying into Heathrow, except SAA no longer uses 747s on the London route. Read More…
Well, it’s official, according to this report from the BBC: the US Airways Airbus which ditched without loss of life in the Hudson River last month WAS brought down by a flock of Canadian Geese. The map above, which appears on the BBC website, shows the aircraft’s flight path. Read More…
In all the jolly back-slapping and high-fiving about last week’s miraculous and injury-free Airbus ditching in the Hudson River, there has not been one single message of sympathy for the geese who may have been sucked into the aircraft’s engines. Read More…
