British Airways Adds 6 Boeing 787-10 Orders, American Airlines Flight Attendants Begin Voting For Strike Authorization & More

British Airways Adds 6 Boeing 787-10 Orders & 6 More Options

British Airways’ parent, the International Airlines Group (IAG), yesterday revealed that it converted six?Boeing 787-10?options for the flag carrier of the United Kingdom into firm orders. Moreover, another six 787-10 options have been added to the order book...

American Airlines Flight Attendants Begin Voting For Union Strike Authorization

Flight attendants at?American Airlines?began voting on Friday to decide whether their union should call a strike. The development comes after the inflight workers reportedly asked to authorize the?Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA)?to call a strike last week...

Delayed Again: Southwest Airlines Converts Some Boeing 737 MAX 7 Orders To MAX 8s

Due to continued delays with the?Boeing 737 MAX 7?certification process,?Southwest Airlines?has now converted 24 MAX 7 aircraft into the larger and already certified?Boeing 737 MAX 8?variant. This news follows the statement from Boeing, which suggests that the first delivery of the MAX 7 variant has been delayed to 2024...

FAA Investigating Near Pass Of Allegiant Airbus A320 And Gulfstream G-IV

In an incident off the Atlantic coast of Florida on Sunday, an Allegiant Air A320 and a JetEdge Gulfstream G-IV came close enough to one another to require evasive action by both crews. Both aircraft were flying at 23,000 feet on parallel tracks, heading north past Palm Bay, Florida...

Throwback: When A Qantas Boeing 747 Had An Oxygen Tank Explode On Board

On July 25th, 2008, a?Qantas?Boeing 747-400?was heading to Melbourne, Australia, after a stopover in Hong Kong when an oxygen tank exploded and ruptured its fuselage. The widebody was then forced to divert to the Philippines'?Ninoy Aquino International Airport...