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An Airbus A320-232, operated by charter firm Small Planet Airlines Poland, is seen in Burgas airport after it made an emergency landing following a bomb threat en route from Warsaw to Egypt, Bulgaria November 19, 2015. REUTERS/BULPHOTO AAGENCY   SOFIA/WARSAW (Reuters) – A bomb threat that turned out to be …

An American Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N199AN performing flight AA-54 from Chicago O’Hare,IL (USA) to Manchester, EN (UK) with 77 people on board, had just levelled off at initial cruise level 310 about 110nm northeast of Chicago when the aircraft encountered turbulence causing injuries to two flight attendants. The crew …

Effective November 30th 2015, the Services of Nigeria Based Virgin Atlantic Crew Will No Longer be Required by Virgin Atlantic. If you haven been following the story Please Read previous Update on the issue below. I will advise you take time to carefully read through; “DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT OF LAGOS BASED …

Moments like this are what we live for! For the first time in their 70 years of service, Ethiopian Airlines will let ladies run things on their flights. Beginning today, Thursday, the 19th of November, 2015, all flights from the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa to Bangkok, Thailand will be managed …

Meet Our Aviator of the day: Capt. Henry Zebere. Who is Capt. Henry Zebere? “Just another human with that name: Henry. Certainly not perfect, strong belief in fairness, transparency, equality.” How did you find yourself in the flying World? “I would say by Divine play as i was heading for …

Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted Tuesday night due to bomb threats, officials said. Both flights landed safely. Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb threat was called in from the ground, a …

The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in the New South Wales Hunter region, killing all three onboard, had his licence suspended in 2013 for a series of flying offences. Sydney conservationist Richard Green, his wife Carolyn and passenger John Davis were found in the helipcopter’s wreckage in mountanous terrain, …

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Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is not recruiting and any information to that effect is false and misleading, a statement said. The statement, issued by Mr Yakubu Dati, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, in Abuja on Tuesday, urged the public to disregard such information. The statement said the last recruitment …

THE Director of Airport Operations of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Captain Henry Omeogu, has alleged that staff of the agency who work at the runways and airsides (restricted areas of aircraft movement) may have aided the stealing of cables and bulbs that provide light to the runways, …