Thread: Airline News

Heathrow Airport has cancelled 172 flights on Monday and Tuesday after a union vote rejected a pay offer.


The Unite Union said 88 per cent of its 4,000 members – including engineers, firefighters and security staff – voted down the deal and opted to strike.


They said if the walkouts go ahead, around 2,500 will miss work.

Industrial action is set to happen on 5 and 6 August, with additional strikes planned for 23 and 24 August. However, Heathrow have not yet announced which flights will be cancelled.

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/172-heathrow-flights-cancelled-union-reject-pay-deal-strike-action/

Well of course it has you mong, all those chinkies are going there to bribe officials and steal everything they can.

Remember: "DEBT DIPLOMACY"

Silly fuckers.

Police arrest airline pilots at Glasgow Airport after they allegedly failed breathalyser tests before transatlantic flight


Two American airline pilots were arrested in Scotland yesterday after allegedly failing a breathalyser before flying passengers to New York.


The men, aged 45 and 61, were arrested at Glasgow Airport and are expected to appear at Paisley Sheriff Court on Tuesday.

Both men were detained before boarding United Airlines flight UA162, which was supposed to take off at 9am yesterday for Newark.

Police Scotland say they were called to the airport about 7am yesterday.

A force spokeswoman said: “Police Scotland can confirm that two men, aged 61 and 45, have been arrested and remain in police custody pending a scheduled court appearance on Tuesday August 6, for alleged offences under the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (Section 93).”

The legislation covers airline pilots found under the influence of alcohol.

The flight was cancelled and all passengers were rerouted.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/police...lantic-flight/

AN update on the Heathrow strikes (not the pilot's one): No-one is entitled to airline compensation for any delays or cancellation, as this is considered outside the airlines control.

That's a bastard innit.

Thank goodness we opted to drive.

^Remember to leave your leather pants at home. they won't go down well at the Red Lion

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

No-one is entitled to airline compensation for any delays or cancellation,

I'm sure all "Travel Insurance Policies" are worded to ensure the purchaser is fully satisfied

^^ Still pub crawling Jack?

Bloody long drive home yesterday, especially as the A1 south was closed at Huntington, as was the A9 at Nuremberg.

Good job you had the best of Bavarian Oompah band hits to get you there.

Yep, it's beer and oompah band season alright...

^ I miss those days
Oktoberfest next month, might just book me sen a flight

No hotel needed, 48 hours solid.

I bet more than a few people wish they'd make their fucking minds up. Flights can't just be "uncancelled".

Heathrow strike temporarily postponed for further talks

Thousands of Heathrow workers will clock in on Monday (5 August) after the Unite union called off its planned strike action to convene further talks with airport bosses.

https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/heathrow-strike-temporarily-postponed-for-further-talks-18922

Might be useful to some.

Thai Airways International is adding fights to Paris, Vienna and Melbourne effective starting October 27 through to at least the end of March next year.

Flights to Paris will increase from daily to 10 a week, but it will also involve a downsizing of aircraft from the mega A380 to a mix of the Boeing 777-300 and the smaller A350-900 XWB.

The three new services, mid-day departures from Bangkok, will use the 321 seat Airbus A350-900. The daily service will use a Boeing 777-300 with 364 seats.

The new three services depart Bangkok at 1215 on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. The daily service departs from Bangkok at 0005.

Flights to Vienna will increase from five to daily effective October 27 using a Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 aircraft with 256 seats.

Flights to Melbourne Australia will increase from 11 to 14 (twice daily) using the 321 seat Airbus A350-900 XWB aircraft.

The first of the two daily flights will depart Bangkok at midnight and arrive in Melbourne at 1305 while the second daily flight will depart at 0810 and arrive in Melbourne at 2120.

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/tourism/thai-airways-announces-extra-flight-to-europe-and-australia

^Allegedly the 350's are more comfortable and spacious than the 777s, at the back end

Where are the 380s being transferred too?

Originally Posted by OhOh

^Allegedly the 350's are more comfortable and spacious than the 777s, at the back end

Where are the 380s being transferred too?

Doesn't say but high traffic route... Hong Kong? There might be a lot of people getting out soon.

^Where might they be welcome?

Originally Posted by OhOh

^Allegedly the 350's are more comfortable and spacious than the 777s, at the back end

Where are the 380s being transferred too?

I imagine the a380s will be sold off to one of the airlines keeping them longer.

Cathay Pacific is ‘spying on you through in-flight entertainment and even recording your movement’
Nestled in the back of every seat on this popular passenger airline is a disturbing piece of technology — it’s watching your every move.

Cathay Pacific passengers have been warned that an updated privacy policy means their movements and preferences are being recorded by the airline through their in-flight entertainment screens as well as at the airport.

Even worse, the information and images will be stored indefinitely, with the carrier claiming it will be for “as long as necessary”.
Their new policy was introduced last week, according to Forbes, which explains that images taken from CCTV on the plane as well as at airports could be held by the airline.

The policy explains that they collect “information such as previous travel arrangements, feedback about your experiences, details of lost luggage and other claims, your use of our in-flight entertainment system and in-flight connectivity, your images captured via CCTV in our airport lounges and aircraft”.

Read more
https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...10f7ceacb9c67b

As the airplanes are basically from only one or two suppliers I presume all airlines have the same capability and look forward to more public updates of their own "privacy policy"

They don't mention who else the "personal information" will be handed too, public, commercial or government, either for airline profit or by court order

One suspects all airports have similar "private information" collection systems and procedures, who is on their distribution list?

Originally Posted by Troy

I imagine the a380s will be sold off to one of the airlines keeping them longer.

I was enquiring more about who has routes suitable and will want to take on 380s at a time when single isle two engine airplanes appear to more useful/adaptable/profitable, in the post hub and spoke world of civil aviation

Originally Posted by OhOh

I was enquiring more about who has routes suitable and will want to take on 380s at a time when single isle two engine airplanes appear to more useful/adaptable/profitable, in the post hub and spoke world of civil aviation

They will either be used for high traffic routes like Thai said they would be, or they will be sold off/leased to a passenger/freight company (although I'm not sure it's cheap to refit them for cargo).

'kinell BA can't catch a break can they.

British Airways said on Wednesday it had cancelled some short-haul flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports because of an IT systems failure.


The airline, owned by International Airlines Group, said: "We are working as quickly as possible to resolve a systems issue which has resulted in some short-haul cancellations and delays from London airports."


It said it was offering customers booked on short-haul services departing from London airports the opportunity to rebook on another day.

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/british-airways-cancels-some-flights-due-to-it-failure-3497568

Stupid or kids. Or perhaps stupid kids.

Pilots had to take evasive action to avoid a potentially "catastrophic" scenario after lasers were used to target five planes landing at Glasgow Airport.

The "extremely dangerous" incidents happened between 10pm and 11:30pm on Monday and the same time today.

Lasers were beamed at five different aircraft coming in to land, causing the pilots to take action to protect their vision.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/pilots-take-evasive-action-after-lasers-target-planes-landing-at-scottish-airport-1-4978766

FAA bans some Apple laptops from flights over fire risk

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Tuesday it is banning certain MacBook Pro laptops from flights after Apple recently said that batteries in select units posed fire risks.

The FAA said in a statement to The Hill it was “aware of the recalled batteries that are used in some Apple MacBook Pro laptops” and that it had informed major U.S. airlines of the recall.

The agency went on to remind airlines to follow 2016 safety instructions for products containing recalled batteries, which would mean that the affected laptops should not be taken on airplanes as cargo or in carry-on baggage.

The move echoes a similar warning from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency earlier this month to regional airlines about the MacBook models, saying they should follow 2017 rules mandating devices with recalled lithium-ion batteries to be turned off and not used during flights.

The products in question are some 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between September 2015 and February 2017. Apple said in June it had “determined that, in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units, the battery may overheat and pose a fire safety risk.”

Four airlines with operations managed by Total Cargo Expertise (TCE) implemented its ban on the laptops this week according to an internal notice obtained by Bloomberg.

“Please note that the 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro laptop, sold between mid-2015 to February-2017 is prohibited on board any of our mandate carriers,” a TCE operations coordinator wrote to employees.

The Apple laptop is not the first product to be banned from flights. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phones were barred from airlines in 2016 after several incidents emerged in which its battery exploded while in people’s pockets.

FAA guidelines forbid bringing recalled batteries on flights unless they’ve been replaced or stored in special packing that prevents fires.

https://thehill.com/policy/transport...over-fire-risk