Category: Airlines

Steering problems forced a Qantas A380 to twice abandon takeoff from London Heathrow Airport this weekend. Flight QF10 was scheduled to depart London at 9:30 pm local time on Saturday but had to return to a maintenance bay twice after pilots identified a problem while taxiing. Accounts posted by passengers on Twitter said the superjumbo

Etihad Airways ended 2011 in the black for the first time in its eight year history, posting profits of US$14 million on the back of a 36 per cent increase in revenues to US$4.1 billion, the Abu Dhabi based carrier reported. The results exceeded a break-even forecast for the year. In 2007, Etihad set a

Incorrect weight data entered into a flight computer led to the near stall of a QantasLink 717 flight near Kalgoorlie in late 2010, an ATSB investigation has concluded. The investigation found the flightcrew mistakenly entered the Boeing 717-200’s operating weight instead of the zero fuel weight into the aircraft’s flight management system (FMS). That led

Jetstar Japan will fly to Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Okinawa from its Tokyo Narita base when the airline begins operations in July, the carrier announced on Wednesday. The initial schedule will make the airline the only LCC to fly domestically from the Japanese capital, Jetstar said. The carrier plans to commence flights on July 3,