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British Airways pilots and cabin crew are engaged on 28-hour duty days to operate flights to and from Hong Kong without ever stepping off the plane in order to avoid strict quarantine rules. Similar flights are being operated to India where each plane carries two full sets of…

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair announced yesterday that it was increasing its capacity on flights to Portugal from the United Kingdom after the popular European destination made it on to the UK’s “Green List” of countries deemed safe to visit. The Dublin-based carrier said that it was adding 175,000…

An S7 Airlines Airbus A321 was unable to taxi off the runway after facing taking technical issues on Tuesday. The aircraft was stuck in Novy Urengoy Airport in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region. Let’s find out more about this incident. The aircraft landed safely and slowed down without issue…

Emirates is hoping to recover its capacity to 70% of pre-pandemic levels by winter, according to the airline’s chief commercial officer. The airline is currently running its entire Boeing 777 fleet, meaning that further capacity increases will almost certainly mean that more Airbus A380s are brought out of…

flydubai has announced the launch of additional routes bringing its network to more than 80 destinations. The carrier will grow its network in Russia to 11 points with of the introduction of new services to Moscow Zhukovski International Airport (ZIA) from 12 May, Novosibirsk Tolmachevo International Airport (OVB)…

Yesterday, a TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330neo sustained damage after a ground collision at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport (OXB) in Guinea-Bissau. The impact with a lamppost while taxiing caused the aircraft involved to lose one of its wingtips. None of the aircraft’s occupants were injured in the incident.…

London City Airport has become the first major international airport in the world to be fully controlled by a remote digital air traffic control tower. The news follows intensive testing and live trials of the revolutionary technology during lockdown. All flights on the summer schedule are being guided…

Moscow’s busy Sheremetyevo International Airport recently concluded initial tests of a new facial biometric security system; the system, BROADWAY 3D, relies on a three dimensional surface scan of an individual’s face; the system is highly automated and minimizes the need for human supervision; during its one month of testing, 3,500…

Turkish Airlines continues to be the carrier that flies boldly into the pandemic, operating almost 800 flights per day across the first week of April. With one eye on COVID-19 safe operations, the airline has recently been rewarded with an upgrade from the Safe Travel Barometer. Its score…

On March 23 a Partenavia P 68 Observer 2 (SP-FPM) collided with Sprint Air's Saab 340 (SP-KPU) at Gdansk airport (Poland). The parked Partenavia P 68 Observer 2 (SP-FPM) rolled over the tarmac and hit Sprint Air's Saab 340 (SP-KPU). Fortunately, the impact force was not high and…

A Laser Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (registered as YV3445) forced to return to the gate from the flight Maiquetía, Venezuela to Cancun, Mexico after passengers have noticed fuel gushing out of the right-wing fuel vent. Passengers started shouting and showing the crew the leak coming from the wing. However, aviation…

Trigana Air Service Boeing 737/400 has suffered substantial damage by giving away the right main gear during landing excursion on the runway at Jakarta-Halim airport, Indonesia.  No injuries are reported. The airport is currently closed and will resume work at 16:00 local time. https://pilotamireh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gGUCySgYlUn0cgin.mp4