A planned fast taxi run of Avro Vulcan XM655 this Sunday has reportedly been cancelled following an incident involving the aircraft today. The aircraft, preserved at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield, reportedly ran off the runway coming to rest in the hedge on the airfield boundary next to a busy road. It [read more]
Flight tracking website of choice, Flightradar24 says that its website came under “heavy load” yesterday as Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was flown from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt in London. At its peak, 4.79 million people tracked the flight on Flightradar24’s website and app with hundreds of thousands more watching on [read more]
Her Majesty The Queen passed away peacefully this afternoon at Balmoral castle. God save the King.
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) is looking for new members for its Customer Panel programme to help create solutions and ideas to improve Ryanair’s customer experience. The airline has already held two customer panel events this year but is now looking to expand its Customer Panel to gather more feedback, [read more]
A Jet2.com (LS/EXS) flight was reportedly diverted to Munich on Friday after a 70-year-old woman became aggressive and violent when she was informed that “free champagne” was not part of the service. Videos of the pensioner have been shared on social media platform TikTok of the event which happened on [read more]
The Red Arrows display at the Rhyl airshow today was brought to an abrupt end when Red 6, Sqdn Ldr Gregor Oston, aircraft was hit by a bird. Witnesses saw the Royal Air Force (RAF) BAe Hawk T1 suddenly break away from the display after it was hit in the [read more]
Head of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Chief of the Air Staff Sir Mike Wigston has written to all personnel saying that he will address concerns around recruitment, bullying and sexual harassment as a priority after a spate of recent high-profile resignations and allegations. Earlier this month a senior female [read more]
Organisers of the Air Race World Championship have announced that the series will not be returning to the skies in 2022 as planned and will be deferred until 2023. In an announcement, the organisers said: “Despite the tireless efforts and support of all of our race teams, specialist suppliers and [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has launched an end of summer sale with fares to selected destinations from just £19.99 The sale sale will see 45,000 seats across 240 routes available at discounted prices for flights booked before 5th September. Ryanairs network across Europe could provide the perfect opportunity for [read more]
Boeing halted production of Boeing 737 Max airliners on several days in recent weeks as a result of a shortage in the supply of parts. A leaked email to staff from 3rd August told staff that the airframer had taken the decision to have “down days”, a decision it told [read more]
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