An unattended bag led to the evacuation of the Aberdeen Regional Airport and delayed arrival of passengers to the terminal Thursday night. Police responded to the security threat at the airport shortly after 10 p.m., according to a news release from the Aberdeen Police Department. Earlier in the evening, a male arrived at the airport, stowed a suitcase in a corner of the terminal and immediatel...
Hainan Airlines (HU) announced Monday night to adjust its private placement released earlier in April, cutting the upper limit of the total funds from 24 billion yuan to 16.6 billion yuan. The Haikou-based carrier now plans to sell as many as 4.62 billion shares to raise 16.55 billion yuan in a private placement, down from the 24 billion yuan previously announced, the company said in a fil...
Etihad Airways has announced a new partnership with Victor to complement and promote its exclusive The Residence and First Apartment cabins, both available on the airline's Airbus A380 fleet. The partnership also allows customers the ultimate convenience of chartering a seamless private aircraft connection to or from their international A380 flights. Etihad Airways is the first sch...
“In the 1980s,” Canada’s Financial Post newspaper predicted in late 1978, “business travelers will look back at air travel in this decade with a certain amount of trauma.” The logic, essentially, was that passengers paying full economy fares (usually, those on business) were frustrated by how full economy cabins were getting. How times don’t ch...
Xia Lili, marketing chief at a privately-owned Shanghai software firm switched to flying with Spring Airlines after China’s first low-cost carrier took off in 2010. Her company has since made it mandatory for staff to use budget airlines when available, and has cut its travel costs by a fifth. Xia and her colleagues are among an increasing number of Chinese who are fuelling fast growth in...
The US Navy has started a process to replace the Blue Angels demonstration team’s aircraft with a squadron of Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornets. Boeing will receive a contract to draw up the engineering plans needed to convert the single-seat Super Hornet into a configuration specific to the Blue Angels role, the navy said in a 3 December acquisition notice. The engineering work will suppor...
Russian-made Yak-130 combat trainer aircraft and Italian AW 139 helicopters have been inducted into the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed them over to the Air Force on Sunday at the BAF Bangabandhu Base in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, on Sunday said self-confidence would take the nation forward though Banglades...
The tests confirming the flight characteristics of Russia’s fifth-generation PAK FA (Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation) fighter jet have been actually completed, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said in an interview with Rossiya 24 TV Channel on Monday. "Several planes are now primarily testing airborne avionics. The tests proving the aircraft’s flight char...
Moscow and Nicosia are in talks on the use of Cyprus airports and ports by Russia on favorable conditions in case of emergency situations, Russia's Embassy in Cyprus said Monday. The spokesperson said that the sides are discussing privileges similar to those granted by Cyprus to France. "At the moment, privileges on the use of airports and ports in case...
The operator of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia is looking for the owner of three Boeing 747-200F that have been left on its tarmac. The airport had put an advertisement in a local newspaper after failing to trace the owner of the three commercial planes. In the classified section of The Star newspaper, the airport operator Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd, put...
An Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris was diverted to Canada following an alleged bomb threat on Tuesday. The plane was diverted to the Trudeau airport in Montreal, AirLive.net tweeted. CBC News reported that the plane was diverted for 'unspecified reasons'. There are 231 passengers and 15 crew members on board, according to Canadian media. The Montreal police have r...
Bestfly based in Angola has been awarded an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) by the Angola Civil Aviation Authority. The certificate, which was issued in October 2015, enables Bestfly to offer third party charters out of Angola with its managed fleet of seven Angolan-registered aircraft – all of which have been inducted under the AOC. The AOC took two years to achieve and required Bestfl...
