A Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300, registration A7-BAC performing flight QR-778 from Miami,FL (USA) to Doha (Qatar) with 279 people on board, lined up runway 09 at taxiway T1 (approximately 2600 meters/8500 feet takeoff distance available, full runway length 3968 meters/13,016 feet) and departed Miami’s runway 09 but struck the approach …
Read More »Emirates to retire over 50 jets in next three years
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to take delivery of 20 Airbus A380s and 16 Boeing 777-300ERs in 2016 as part of a modernisation which includes withdrawing over 50 jets in the next three years. The Dubai-based carrier is removing 26 aircraft next year alone, among them 12 Airbus A330s and five A340s …
Read More »Man threatens to bring down European flight
A man threatened to bring down a Lufthansa flight from Germany to Serbia, according to the Associated Press. Passengers said the man acted erratically since the beginning of the flight and began banging on the cockpit door demanding to be left inside. Investigators say he threated to open a plane …
Read More »Nostalgia Space: Air Midwest Airplane Photo
Hmmmm…….the Airline that never commenced Operations…
Read More »Nigerian staff sue Virgin Atlantic Airways for N5bn
The 20 Nigerian cabin crew members recently laid off by Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, have instituted a N5billion suit against the Airline before the National Industrial Court sitting in Lagos. Aviation Logistics and Management Ltd is also a defendant in the suit. The Nigerian cabin crew, through their counsel, Chief …
Read More »Photos|Ageless Eno Ekpe-Juda of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority is Bereaved.
Ageless Eno Ekpe-Juda of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority is Bereaved. She received the Sad news of her mum’s passing away yesterday evening. What an Irony? She was already warming up for her special birthday coming up on the 14th of December. May her mother’s soul rest in Peace. See Photos …
Read More »Nostalgia Space: KOLKOL Airlines
KOLKOL Airlines. Remember? Na Wah! We have seen all sorts of Airlines in Nigeria Sha.
Read More »185 Flights Delayed, 130 others Cancelled Over Bad Weather
About 130 domestic flights were cancelled and 185 others delayed in the last 48 hours across the country due to adverse weather condition, Daily Trust findings show. An analysis of data obtained from the Airline’s Flight Performance Monitor in the aviation passenger service portal shows that the domestic routes had …
Read More »Photo| Nostalgia Space: Associated Airlines Crew
Lol….See my long Neck. Lekpa Shandy!. Good Memories….
Read More »Airport Taxi Operators Raise the Alarm over Infiltration by Suspected Terrorists
Taxi operators under the aegis of Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN) have warned that terrorists may infiltrate the nation’s airports as touts are allowed to mill everywhere around terminal facilities, especially at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The operators observed that the …
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