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A passenger on board an El Al flight to Tel Aviv captured Israel's missile-defense system intercepting Hamas' rockets from his window seat.

Air Canada Bets On Winter With New Hawaii Flights 3 minute read When planning leisure trips and vacations, some travelers might make plans as far out as a year in advance. The global health crisis put a swift stop to that, making any plans involving international travel a gamble. However, seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, Air Canada is adding a number of non-stop flights to Hawaii from major Canadian cities this winter. The airline looks to capitalize on some pent-up demand as it emerges...

Itay Blumental/Twitter The clip shows rockets, fired from Gaza, being intercepted mid-air. Over 2000 rockets have been fired from Gaza towards Israel since Monday, the IDF said.  A passenger on board a flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv captured Israels advanced missile-defense system intercepting rockets on early Thursday morning, a viral video shows. The passenger filmed the Iron Dome in action from his window seat on El Al flight LY332, aviation website Simple Fl...

Addis Ababa-Lome-Newark (via Abidjan in 2019 and part of 2020) Inbound to Addis, it’s different. Toronto, Chicago, and Washington are all non-stop, as we see below, while JFK and Newark route via Lome in both directions. While aircraft varies, Washington is mainly by the B777-300ER, owing to the large concentration of Ethiopian Americans around D.C., while it’s the A350-900 for Toronto. Meanwhile, Chicago, JFK, and Newark primarily use the carrier’s smallest widebody: the B787-8. All rou...

McClellan also said airlines schedule their flights according to the places people search the most on their websites. The recent growth at ECP proves there is an increasing demand across the county to visit Bay County and the surrounding area, he said.  The Simple Flying article states that while more than 190 U.S. airports have more capacity this summer compared to the summer of 2019, the total capacity across all U.S. airports is still down by a combined 128 million seats.   Areas with ai...

KLM Halves The Time Spent By Crew On Indian Layovers 2 minute read KLM is cutting the time its crew spends in India during layovers. Instead of spending 48 hours on the ground, crews will turn around in 24 hours instead. The decision to halve the layover time comes as foreign airlines avoid leaving their crew in India due to the lack of healthcare infrastructure available. KLM is one of many foreign airlines looking for a way to reduce or even skip layovers in India for their crews. Photo: Vinc...

3 minute read Earlier this week, we took a look at where South African Airways’ various examples of the Boeing 747 ended up. The 747 was a game-changing jetliner when it first flew in the 1970s, and European manufacturer Airbus launched a similarly ground-breaking plane during this decade: the A300. SAA also operated this type, which was the world’s first-ever twin-engine widebody jet. But what became of the nine examples that SAA operated? SAA operated nine A300s between 1976 and 2001. Pho...

3 minute read India’s ambitious carrier Vistara is set to launch non-stop flights from Delhi to Tokyo in Japan. Using its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, the airline intends to operate the route once per week from mid-June. The route will make use of a travel bubble agreement in place between India and Japan. Vistara is set to launch flights to the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in around a month. Photo: Vistara Many countries are currently restricting travel to and from India, given the surge in C...

Royal Mail To Trial Drones For Package Deliveries To UK Islands 3 minute read UK mail delivery service Royal Mail is set to start flying packages over 70 miles to the Scilly Isles by drone. Once packages arrive at the islands, they will be divided up before smaller drones will deliver them to their relevant destination. Royal Mail is trialing drones for deliveries to islands. Photo: Chris Gorman – Royal Mail. The idea of package deliveries via drone is nothing new. For a long time, package gi...

American Airlines Holds Out On Adding Iceland And Croatia Flights Advertisement: American Airlines spent 2019 and the early part of 2020 expecting to fly a robust international schedule. It has not shied away from taking on the competition. However, as some of its competitors announce new flights to Croatia and Iceland, American has not. However, this does not mean that American will not add service to either country this summer, but it has yet to see the case to announce it now. American Airli...