This week, Russia’s flag carrier, Aeroflot, announced it will be moving its international operations to the brand-new Terminal C at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. The airline aims to have moved most of its operations by mid-June. Aeroflot has begun to move their international operations to Terminal C. Photo: Sergey Tchernyakov via Flickr Aeroflot moves Aeroflot […]
American Airlines is about to lose access to one of the biggest airline networks in South America, LATAM, as the carrier switches over to supporting Delta. American Airlines is set to lose out of the Delta / LATAM codeshare deal. Photo: American Airlines What are the details? Delta Air Lines pulled the rug out from […]
Delta Air Lines landed in hot water after one of its Boeing 777 aircraft dumped fuel over the suburbs of Los Angeles. To make matters even worse, the location where the fuel landed happened to be an elementary school. About twenty children and ten adults who were in the courtyard of the school were affected. […]
International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of such airlines as British Airways and Iberia, filed a complaint with the European Union regarding the British Government’s intervention to help the ailing Flybe. With Flybe struggling to stay afloat once again, the Government stepped in to help the regional carrier after it reached an agreement with […]
German national flag carrier Lufthansa has announced that, to lower CO2 emissions and reduce noise, it will base nine Airbus A320neos at Munich International Airport (MUC). At the end of last year, the Star Alliance member moved four Airbus A320neo aircraft from Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA) to Germany’s second busiest airport in Munich. Currently, […]
Although Dubai-based Emirates and Doha-based Qatar are constantly in the spotlight, there are a few other decent full-service carriers in the Middle East. Today we’ll compare the economy class experience between Saudi Arabia’s Saudia and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad. Both are excellent products (especially compared to anything in North America) so it will be quite the […]
At Simple Flying, we love our old school aircraft. The Boeing 707 is a classic example. Boeing built 865 of them between 1958 and 1979. Like most aircraft types, there were several variants. But it is a little known quirk of aviation history that Boeing built a 707 variant just for Qantas. The unique Qantas […]
Africa’s leading airline has announced plans to build a brand-new $5 billion mega airport in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Airlines says it expects to have outgrown its current base at Bole International Airport within the next three or four years. Ethiopian Airlines has ambitious expansion plans. Photo: Tomás Del Coro via Flickr Ethiopian Airlines announced some […]
Airbus performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft on January 16, 2020. The automatic take-off was enabled by image recognition technology installed directly on the aircraft, instead of relying on an Instrument Landing System (ILS). A crew of five people, composed of two pilots, two flight test engineers and […]
When the Boeing 737 MAX was grounded by aviation authorities in March 2019, nobody expected it to last as much as it has. Latest MAX operator schedule changes indicate that the 737 MAX could stay put for at least a few more months and Boeing will see its famous narrow-body, once called a game-changer, grounded […]
