In a rare incident, severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore resulted in one passenger's death and 30 injuries. The flight, which departed Heathrow on Monday, was diverted to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, landing at 3:45 pm local time on Tuesday.
#AirAsia has converted 36 of its #A321neo (new engine option) orders to #A321LR (long-range) as it aims to merge its #shorthaul and #longhaul divisions into one global network
The decision to change aircraft type is so that AirAsia could have more flying range to connect the #SoutheastAsia region to Africa, Europe and America
One can see the status of European Airports in line with the current weather activitiy.
From worst to best:
Violet L: Low IFR, the last status before closure
Red I: IFR, Instrument Flight Rules aka weather so bad, you can not really see
Blue M: Marginal VFR, you can see, but barely
V: VFR, Visual Flight Rules, decent visibility and weather
An evidence-based approach to accelerate flight reduction in academia
"[...] if we want to reach #netzero in all fields of #academia, [...] we need to go beyond reducing some #flights and strive for an adaptation of the current framework conditions. [...] we need a transformation of the academic system to keep the excellence and the necessary exchange amongst scientists but with strongly reducing the negative effects."
The formation of a new coalition government in Spain portends big changes for the country's short-haul flights.
The coalition deal includes some 230 policy promises covering the next four years — including a pledge to limit short flights within the country.
The idea is similar to a program in France, and would scrap domestic flights where there is a rail alternative that takes less than two-and-a-half hours
I found a flight that has a connection in Japan that's cheaper than a direct flight to Japan. Is it legal to take that cheaper flight and leave the airport at the layover location as our final destination? Will they prevent us from taking the return flight?
The Lithuanian #government seeks to have more direct #flights to #Germany. #Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said that the more frequent flight connections would help German #troops stationed in #Lithuania.
Emergency operations crews at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport were on standby Sunday after a United Airlines flight's landing gear malfunctioned.
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"The bulk of the problem is still long-haul #flights, but until we can #fly on cleaner #fuels, we can start cutting #emissions where we can."
#Goverment policies and inter-cooperation are key to enabling Everything, Everywhere, All at Once solutions to mitigate #ClimateChange at every level, from hyper-local, to #national, to #international and, ultimately, #global.
Is skiplagging illegal?
I found a flight that has a connection in Japan that's cheaper than a direct flight to Japan. Is it legal to take that cheaper flight and leave the airport at the layover location as our final destination? Will they prevent us from taking the return flight?