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Indian police arrested a senior executive at a US-based banking company on Saturday over an episode in late November in which the executive allegedly urinated on a female passenger on an Air India flight from New York to New York. Delhi. The executive, Shankar Mishra – who was recently fired …

The breads, chickens and spreads that passengers leave on plane trays generate tons of wasted food each year. Losses from this are estimated at US$ 4 billion (R$ 20.82 billion) by IATA (International Air Transport Association), based on data from airlines. “This year, the in-flight food market is estimated at …

The audio recording of the black boxes of the Rio-Paris flight, which crashed into the sea in 2009, killing all 228 people on board, was released this Monday (17) during the lawsuit by the manufacturer, Airbus, and the airline, Air France in a Paris courtroom — an extremely powerful moment …

A “flying car” built by Chinese electronics maker Xpeng has made its first public flight in the United Arab Emirates in preparation for launching the electric aircraft in several countries. The X2 is a two-person electric vertical take-off (eVtol) aircraft powered by eight propeller engines, two in each corner of …

Chinese regulatory authorities have approved the first domestic model of commercial passenger airliner, local media reported, and Beijing hopes it will be able to compete with the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320. The C919, produced by state-owned company Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corp of China), was certified at Beijing airport …

JN / Agencies Today at 07:56 One person died and nine remain missing, including a child, after a seaplane crashed on Sunday north of Seattle, in the northwestern United States, the US Coast Guard said. The plane had departed Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, …

In 2016, a start-up created by a geeky American computer engineer caused some wry smiles in the aviation industry by promising to design planes to resurrect supersonic commercial flight. Buried by an accident and by the economic and environmental unfeasibility of its great representative, Concorde, that glamorous era would be …

Marivi Wright’s “holiday from hell” began when Air France’s computer systems failed and staff had to manually check in passengers on the flight from New York to Europe. She missed two connecting flights while flying from Paris to Spain to visit her mother, 83, landing in Malaga 12 hours late. …

London Heathrow Airport, the main hub for British air transport, announced on Tuesday (12) that it will reduce the flow of passengers at the terminal to 100,000 a day. The information about a reduction in services over the northern hemisphere summer was given a day after at least 61 flights …

An Airbus 380 plane from Emirates who had departed from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to Brisbane, in Australia, flew for 14 hours with a hole in the side last Friday. In images shared on social media, passengers revealed the size of the hole that, according to the airline, …