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A PASSENGER plane was forced to make an emergency landing after two female flight attendants started a shocking midair punch-up. Trouble broke out around 40 minutes into the Delta flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis between two cabin attendants arguing about “work issues”. The pair allegedly began a fist fight …

Flights on Pakistan’s state-owned airline have been suspended after two staff were killed during a protest against plans to privatise the ailing carrier. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began shutting down services on Tuesday in solidarity with the victims after a violent confrontation between striking employees and law enforcers near the …

CHENNAI: An Air India woman cabin crew member was caught pilfering food items meant for inflight use on an international flight on the Chennai-Colombo-Chennai sector. Sources said the incident came to light when the crew member’s bag was screened on a baggage screening machine after the flight AI 274 arrived …

NEW DELHI: Air India is likely to ground around 125 cabin crew for their failure to maintain weight requirements as prescribed by aviation regulator DGCA. Some of them may be assigned ground duty, while others can be offered voluntary retirement, Air India sources said. The national carrier had given an …

Arik Air said that it will resume flight operations from Lagos to Freetown, Sierra Leone on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Flights from Lagos to Freetown were suspended in July 2014 at the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)in some West African nations. Recalled that Sierra Leone was declared free …

RENTON, Wash. — Boeing’s 737 MAX jet took off for its maiden flight on Friday morning, ushering in the next chapter for the aerospace giant’s longest-running and best-selling airplane. The company said it is on track to deliver the first of its upgraded aircraft in 2017. The jet, nicknamed “Spirit of Renton,” …

Manila : Part of a ceiling collapsed in the Philippines’ biggest airport Thursday, slightly injuring a foreign passenger, the latest in a series of incidents at a facility seen as among the worst in the world. The collapse at a restaurant at Terminal 3 of Manila airport “slightly scratched” a …

Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft took off on its first flight on Friday from wet tarmac at an airport south of Seattle, marking another step toward scheduled delivery to airlines in 2017. Live video supplied by Boeing showed the smooth take-off of the plane, the fourth version of the original …

AGAINST the backdrop of opposition’s criticisms of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido-Osun in Osun state, the consultant engineer to the state ‎government on the project Wemimo Adebajo, has said that the airport when completed, will rank among airports with the longest runways in Nigeria. Adebajo, during an inspection tour of …

THINGS Remembered, an in-flight catering outfit has disclosed plans to construct a catering facilities worth $11m at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos to take care of foreign airlines coming into the country. The Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Mrs Adeola Omikunle, who disclosed this at the launch of …