Paris Airports to Close During Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024

DALLAS ⸺ Paris will host the Olympic Games for its third time in 2024 from July 26 to August 11. For the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26, the airports of Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG), Paris-Orly (ORY), Le Bourget (LBG) and Beauvais-Tillé (BVA) will be completely closed, as announced by the National Federation of Aviation and its …

Thai Airways To Order Up to 90 Jets?

According to Bloomberg News, Thai Airways is considering an order for up to 90 widebody jets from Boeing and Airbus. Citing people close to the deal Bloomberg said the airline is planning on adding as many as 80 twin-aisle aircraft with a lease of a dozen narrowbody aircraft. Thai Airways, which has seen its fleet …

Virgin Australia Adds 737s Launches Upgrades

Virgin Australia has increased its orders for the Boeing 737 MAX, with six more MAX-8s scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2024, bringing the airline’s total number of MAX-8s to 14 and the total planned for the type to 39. The newest addition, ‘Bronte Beach’ will arrive in the airline’s home city of …

Virgin Australia Adds More 737 MAX Aircraft

Virgin Australia has increased its orders for the Boeing 737 MAX, with six more MAX-8s scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2024, bringing the airline’s total number of MAX-8s to 14 and total planned latest generation aircraft to 39. The newest addition to the fleet, ‘Bronte Beach’ will arrive in the airline’s home …

Fabulous Cockpit Video Of Norse 787 Antarctica Landing

Norse Atlantic Airways, which was the first airline to land a 787 in Antarctica last week has issued this video of the cockpit view of the touchdown. Norse Atlantic Airways brought supplies and scientists to the Norwegian Polar Institute’s Troll Research Station. A video series that is worth a few minutes of your time. @flynorse …

Geoffrey Thomas Takes You Beside The Runway

Geoffrey Thomas, AirlineRatings.com Editor-In-Chief Takes you runway side to experience the sensation of aircraft take-offs at Perth Airport, Western Australia. Each year AirlineRatings.com Editot-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas goes runway side at various airports worldwide to refresh our photo library. JOIN: AirlineRatings.com YouTube Channel GET: Accurate MH370 Information From AirlineRatings.com Newsletter Airlineratings.com is packed with information about air …

Azul ATR-72 Tail Strike Video

According to Aviation Herald an Azul Linhas Aereas ATR-72-212A, performing flight AD-2737 from Aracaju,SE to Recife,PE (Brazil) struck the runway upon landing. The aircraft landed on Recife’s runway 18 when in the final stages the sink rate increased followed by an increase in pitch. The aircraft touched down its main gear with its tail contacting …

New International Airline for Perth and mega sale!

A new international airline is headed for Perth. AirAsia Malaysia (AK), not to be confused with AirAsia X (D7) will be adding to the Kuala Lumpur- Perth route with the addition of daily flights starting March 11 2024. For travelers this means 14 flights per week across the two carriers between Perth and Kuala Lumpur. …

Alaska Airlines Air-to-Air Photoshoot

Alaska Airlines has produced this spectacular short video of filling one of its new Boeing 737-9 aircraft. Alaska Airlines has 310, mostly 737, aircraft in service and another 145 on order. JOIN: AirlineRatings.com YouTube Channel GET: Accurate MH370 Information From AirlineRatings.com Newsletter Airlineratings.com is packed with information about air travel and answers questions that many of …

MH370 Breakthrough Tracking Technology Dates To The 1950s

A fascinating new report highlights the extensive use of the technology -WSPR- that has found a new location of MH370 dating way back to 1956. The report that can be read here is authored by Richard Godfrey, Dr. Hannes Coetzee (ZS6BZP) and Prof. Simon Maskell. WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) uses High Frequency (HF) ionospheric …

Qantas Hits Reporting Of On-Time Performance for Six.

Qantas has hit back at the headlines claiming the airline had the worst on-time performance and cancelled 10 flights a day through October. Some media outlets have taken selected data or data out of context and still ran negative stories despite detailed explanations from Qantas. So here are the facts; Firstly the latest government data …