Britain’s busiest airport, London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) has recorded its busiest-ever year in 2024 with 83.9 million passengers passing through its terminals which is around 4.7 million more than last year and 3 million more than that last pre-pandemic year of 2019. Not resting on its laurels, though, the airport expects [read more]
2024 was a year of recovery for aircraft OEMs who all continued their post-pandemic recovery but for Boeing in particular there was also the recovery from several years of very high-profile production problems with their 737 Max and 787 range. The 2024 Farnborough Airshow threw up some decent orders which [read more]
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Integrated facilities specialists ABM have been awarded the cabin cleaning contract for the British Airways (BA/BAW) fleet using terminal 3 at London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL). The company began servicing the BA fleet in November after successfully winning the contract following a tender process. ABM will carry out cabin cleaning during turnaround [read more]
Swiss International Airlines has issued a statement confirming the death of a cabin crew member who was onboard an Airbus A220 that made an emergency landing due to smoke in the cabin and cockpit. Two other cabin crew members are still in hospital as a result of the incident that [read more]
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air, along with its UK subsidiary Wizz Air UK, has struck a deal with Pratt & Whitney over engine problems which have kept many of its aircraft grounded. The problems affect Wizz Air A320neo aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines of which around 40 [read more]
Authorities say 179 people have been killed in a plane crash in South Korea with just two survivors. Video of the accident shows the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 (HL8088) landed without its landing gear extended and collided with infrastructure at the end of the runway bursting into flames at Muan [read more]
Human error was the primary cause of the crash between an Airbus A350 and a Japanese Coastguard Bombardier Dash 8 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport according to the preliminary report by authorities. Japan’s Transport Safety Board said that the crew of the coastguard aircraft had been focused on the mission ahead [read more]
The Azerbaijan Airlines flight which crashed on Christmas while attempting to make an emergency landing was been shot down by Russian Air Defences in the Grozny area according to Reuters sources and evidence from the survivors of the crash. The Embraer E190 was operating a flight from Baku in Azerbaijan [read more]
An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer E190 crashed while trying to make an emergency landing near Aktau, Kazakhstan. The aircraft was operating a flight from Baku to Grozny, Russia. Video of the flight shows the aircraft heading towards the ground with its landing gear down in an attempt to make an emergency [read more]
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