Five international airlines are expanding air access to Thailand with new flights from Beijing, Doha, Istanbul, Maldives, India’s Jaipur and Tiruchirappalli, and Singapore, strengthening the Kingdom’s…
All Nippon Airways traffic growing four times faster than Japan Airlines on international routes
All Nippon Airways (ANA) registered an 8.7% (370,000 passengers) rise in non-Japanese passengers for the first half of the year. This is four times better than Japanese Airlines (JAL) which only recor…
120 passengers left behind by Lion Air: The pilot decided to depart.,
A least 120 passengers staged a protest by blocking access to Lion Air’s customer service booths claiming that they had been left behind by the airline. According to the passengers, they were schedule…
First flight carrying 300 Haj pilgrims leaves for Saudi Arabia from Kerala
The Saudi Airlines flight, which departed at 7.40 am, on Saturday, carrying 300 pilgrims including 139 men and 161 women from Kochin International Airport of the Kerala State of India. A total of 11,8…
32nd anniversary of JAL jumbo jet crash observed, in Japan
On Aug 12th the morning, bereaved relatives climbed to the crash site on a ridge atop Mt Osutaka, at a height of 1,565 meters, where the JAL Boeing 747 with 524 people aboard crashed on a flight from …
ANA Boeing 777, Flight #JA703A made and emergency landing at Haneda Airport,
ANA Boeing 777 Flight #JA703A made and emergency landing at Haneda Airport, Tokyo due to pressurisation problem. The flight from Tokyo to Osaka had to return to Tokyo shortly after takeoff. Oxygen mas…
Empty seats on PIA flights: a mystery
According to sources requesting anonymity, the Pakistan International Airline is keeping half of the total seats of all its London-bound flights “reserved” just in case a VVIP family had t…
Saudi Arabia Airlines refuses to fly passengers who expose legs and arms – spurs backlash
Users on social media have responded with outrage after discovering a “dress code” on Saudi Arabia Airlines’ website that said “women exposing legs or arms or wearing too thin or too tight clothes and…
SIA joins a global aviation firm to set up the second pilot training school
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is setting up a second pilot training school, while strengthening Singapore’s position as a center for aviation training in the region. The plan is to partner CAE Inc, &…
Air traffic Between UK and China increases at Gatwick
London Gatwick airport has reported an increase in passengers travelling direct to and from China. Gatwick Airport CEO, Stewart Wingate, said that Gatwick’s passenger numbers for July illustrate…