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UK Airports To Get Lockdown Financial Aid?
Shortly before tighter measures on travel come in effect, the UK government announces support measures for the country’s airports. However the type and timing of these measures are still unclear. Starting from 04:00 GMT today (Monday), travel corridors between...
DHL Orders Eight New Boeing 777F Aircraft
Last week, DHL Express announced eight new orders for Boeing 777F aircraft. And later that day, their 2020 earnings showed why. Lately it certainly seems that whenever we mention new widebodies, the conversation is about freighters… DHL’s new 777F aircraft will...
Air Niugini Flight 73 – A Very Strange Water Ditching
Many people feel that water ditchings at sea typically don’t go well, but Air Niugini Flight 73 shows this isn’t always the case. Even when the ditching itself is… well, a bit strange. It only happened two and a half years ago. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson or...
JetBlue Reveals A220 Cabin In All Its Glory
JetBlue is inching closer to entering its Airbus A220 to service, and so decided to tweet pictures of its cabin interior, earlier in the week. It had previously kept the layout of its new jet a secret. The airline has now published full details, of what its newest...
De Havilland Canada Q400: Is Its Production Over?
De Havilland Canada will pause production of its celebrated Q400 once it finishes delivering its current orders for the aircraft. It expects to complete these deliveries within the year. According to reports, De Havilland Canada has asked suppliers to stop sending...
Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 – Water Ditching Success
In another example of an aircraft ditching in the water, Garuda Indonesia’s flight 421 managed a successful river landing, in 2002. Yesterday we saw how the Miracle on the Hudson landing unfolded, 12 years ago. That water ditching happened on the 15th of January...
Britain – Travel Corridors Go, Quarantines Stay
Britain announced that ‘travel corridors’ to other countries will cease to apply, making quarantines for all arrivals mandatory. The measure comes as the country is going through a third wave of the pandemic, along with a mutated strain of the virus. Britain first...
Air Canada Converts Its Airliners To Freighters!
After using its passenger airliners for cargo-only flights in the last few months, Air Canada will now convert two of its 767s to freighters. ‘Air Canada Cargo’ is the airline’s branch that deals with cargo operations. But it doesn’t have its own aircraft. Air...
CACTUS 1549 – Miracle On The Hudson, 12 Years Later
On this day 12 years ago, Cactus (US Airways) flight 1549, performed a water landing on the Hudson river. Everyone survived. It was hailed as a miracle, for the skills and combination of factors that led to everyone’s survival. The accident happened on the 15th of...