By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 30, 2009
7O-ADJ, the crashed aircraft, at Johannesburg in 2005. Photo by Sean Mowatt/Airliners.net A Yemenia flight crashed in the sea off Comores Islands ( an Indian ocean archipelago ) today morning. Details are sketchy at the moment. But the flight[..] More >
Posted in Incidents | Tagged Yemenia
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 26, 2009
Photo by mattdocampo FlightGlobal reports that Qantas Airways has cancelled orders for 15 787-9s and deferred the deliveries of 15 787-8s in a bid to reduce capital expenditure. This is the first major cancellation for the delayed[..] More >
Posted in Airlines, Boeing | Tagged 787, Qantas
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 23, 2009
French naval vessels have picked up a weak signal from AF447’s locator beacons a few minutes ago, Le Monde reported. A mini-submarine has been dispatched to try and find the flight data recorders. UPDATE: As of 6/25, it was revealed that the[..] More >
Posted in Airbus, Incidents
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 14, 2009
Our friend FlightBlogger has spotted probably the first photo of the new Airbus A350 final design with landing gear extracted. For me, it looks like 737 winglets and a 787 nose fitted to an A330 fuselage. Airbus built A350 to counter out[..] More >
Posted in Airbus | Tagged A350
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 14, 2009
Airbus A320, msn 2564, in Deccan/ Kingfisher Red livery seen at BOM. Photo copyright Yash Rajgor UPDATE: SriLankan has taken delivery of only ONE new A320 and they have omitted the registration 4R-ABI since the letter ‘I’ causes confusion with[..] More >
Posted in Airbus, Airlines | Tagged 4R-ABJ, SriLankan
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 3, 2009
Photo copyright Federico Villadei/Airliners.net SriLankan Airlines ( UL ) was planning to launch a thrice weekly CMB-AUH-LHR-AUH-CMB route for the past few months, to start from July. However, now the airline has cancelled the route. The reason[..] More >
Posted in Airlines | Tagged Colombo, SriLankan
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 2, 2009
An AirAsia Boeing 737-300, 9M-AAH, at Colombo on a ferry flight to KL. Note that AirAsia does not use this type anymore and instead user brand new Airbus A320s Now this is a great deal ! AirAsia will be offering Rs.1800 ( around 160USD ) one-way[..] More >
Posted in Airbus, Airlines | Tagged AirAsia, SriLankan
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 2, 2009
AirAsia has now uploaded their Colombo flight schedule. The schedule is as follows. AK255 0615 KUL 0715 CMB D 320 AK256 0815 CMB 1430 KUL D 320 The return airfare is just $59[..] More >
Posted in Airbus, Airlines | Tagged AirAsia, Colombo
By Miyuru ( K FLYER ) on June 1, 2009
Breaking : An Air France A330-200, AF447, carrying 228 pax from Rio De Janeiro (RIO) to Paris (CDG) is missing from the radar screen. It is not clear in which FIR this incident occured. The flight was due to arrive at 1115. This is the first fatal[..] More >
Posted in Airbus, Airlines | Tagged Air France
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