air transport

Technical glitch temporarily closed southern Norway airspace, causing delays at Oslo airport

A technical problem caused aviation authorities in Norway to temporarily close the airspace over the...

world | 5 months ago

Dubai plans to move its busy international airport to $35 billion new facility within 10 years

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations ...

world | 5 months ago

Bad weather returns to U.A.E., several flights cancelled

Heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed the U.A.E. on May 2, leading to the cancellation of several int...

world | 5 months ago

Singapore Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Bangkok; one dead, 30 injuries reported following severe turbulence

A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on May 21 due to severe...

world | 4 months ago

Singapore Airlines cooperating with authorities in probing severe flight turbulence incident

Singapore Airlines on May 22 said it is fully cooperating with relevant authorities in the investiga...

world | 4 months ago

Singaporean investigators analyse recorders from turbulence-hit flight

Singaporean investigators are analysing a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder after on...

world | 4 months ago

Singapore Airline passengers endured 62 seconds of extreme turbulence on May 21 London-Singapore flight

The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Flight SQ321 that was rocked by severe turbulence on May 21 climbed and...

world | 4 months ago

Qatar Airways flight suffers turbulence, at least 12 injured

Twelve people were injured during turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Ireland that lan...

world | 4 months ago

Gravitational changes, 178-feet drop caused injuries on Singapore Airlines jet that hit turbulence

Rapid changes in the gravitational force led to a 178-feet (54-meter) altitude drop of a Singapore A...

world | 4 months ago

Passenger plane lands safely in New Zealand after a fire shuts down an engine

A passenger plane landed safely at a New Zealand airport on June 17 after a fire shut down one of it...

world | 3 months ago

Boeing CEO apologizes to relatives of 737 Max crash victims during Senate appearance

U.S. lawmakers pressed Boeing's chief executive on June 18 about the company's plans to fix its manu...

world | 3 months ago

Saudi airliner’s landing gear catches fire during landing at Peshawar airport, 297 escape unhurt

Nearly 300 people onboard a Saudi Airlines flight from Riyadh to the Pakistani city of Peshawar had ...

world | 3 months ago

Russian passenger jet flying empty crashes near Moscow, killing its crew of 3

A Russian passenger jet crashed Friday while flying empty, killing its crew of three, officials said...

world | 3 months ago

Sri Lanka scraps plan to sell loss-making national airline

Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to sell off its indebted national airline despite shortlisting three po...

world | 2 months ago

Microsoft outage: IndiGo cancels 283 flights after disruption due to Crowdstrike bug

IndiGo has cancelled 283 flights on July 19 due to the disruption caused due to the global outage in...

technology | 2 months ago

Microsoft outage: Flight services affected at Chennai airport

Flights at Chennai airport too were affected due to the Microsoft global outage that occurred in the...

technology | 2 months ago