5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (982+ words) It could be you. You don't even know there's a problem, but there is. Your airline sold 319 seats on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner you are booked onto today, and 315 passengers have checked in. The problem is that there are just 290 seats…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (619+ words) Airlines departing from the UK are poised to capitalise on a Brexit dividend that hands them greater flexibility to respond to potential jet fuel shortages in the wake of the Iran war. European Union rules stipulate that at least 90 per…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (727+ words) When Yuriy Kokhan stopped to take a picture of a strange-looking bird's nest on the front lines of the war in Ukraine in June, he did not realise the symbolic load it would bear. The bird " probably a perching songbird,…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (922+ words) As millions of us flew off for an Easter getaway, the pilot behind the controls may have been having second thoughts about how many of us really needed to be in the air. A small but growing number of pilots…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (199+ words) A Chinese underwater drone has been hauled up in fishing nets close to strategic waters in Indonesia, in the latest indication of Beijing's ongoing efforts to map the underwater channels through which its submarines pass. The Lombok Strait, which divides…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (593+ words) Etihad Airways, the official airline of the United Arab Emirates, has started a price fight among the big three Gulf carriers. It is slashing fares by 50 per cent in response to the war in the Middle East, which has sent…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1046+ words) The sun-baked battlefields across the Middle East are a far cry from the fertile plains of Ukraine's front line, but the tactics deployed by the fighters there are beginning to align. Hezbollah has used small, first-person view [FPV] drones to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1015+ words) Scott Kirby welcomed 500 suppliers, frequent fliers, pilots and cabin crew to United Airlines" hangar at Los Angeles LAX airport on Tuesday to unveil his carrier"s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It was supposed to be a celebration, but with bombs and…...

3+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (317+ words) The families of nine British victims of an Air India flight that crashed as it took off are suing the airline. The Boeing 787 bound for Gatwick with 53 Britons on board came down in Ahmedabad in June last year. Vishwash Kumar…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago  (1050+ words) It was just before 11. 40pm at La Guardia Airport in New York when a fire engine radioed the air-traffic-control tower, asking permission to cross the runway. A United Airlines pilot had reported an odour in the cabin that was making flight…...