China said it will allow transit stops in Taiwan for its citizens flying from three Chinese cities, allowing people from the mainland to travel on from the island for the first time. The change is another step towards normalising travel arrangements between the two sides which have enjoyed increasingly close business ties over recent […]
Malaysia Airlines has temporarily banned checked-in baggage on some flights to Europe because of “unreasonably strong head winds” on the longer routes it is taking for safety reasons. The airline did not elaborate on the safety reasons behind its new flight paths to Europe but one of its airliners was shot down over rebel-held territory […]
Although Frankfurt probably will not have a white Christmas this year, the Airport Winter Services team are prepared for winter operations when snowy and icy conditions arrive. Long before the first snowfall, the Frankfurt Airport (FRA) Winter Services team prepares for the upcoming winter season in extensive training periods with all-year-long theoretical training sessions. Starting […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that Turkish Airlines has paid the prescribed compensation to all the passengers whose luggage were delayed in the infamous Flight TK 624 scheduled service from Istanbul to Abuja. A fortnight ago the flight arrived Nigeria without the luggage of the passengers because it used small body […]
Preliminary figures released today by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) show the total number of passengers carried on scheduled services rising to 3.5 billion in 2015, a 6.4 per cent increase over last year. The number of departures reached approximately 34 million globally, and world passenger traffic, expressed in terms of total scheduled […]
