“Airlines have plenty to do right now without getting dragged into politics,” a senior European aviation safety figure told me. “It’s disturbing to see a government using overflying rights as a weapon.” The government he has in mind is Vladimir Putin’s. While the Kremlin has sided with its client state, Belarus, over Sunday’s forced diversion of a Ryanair passenger plane to Minsk, it dismisses suggestions of any direct involvement. But Nato’s.
Worried flight crews will be rusty when travel reopens? MailOnline meets BA s chief pilot and cabin safety manager at its training academy to find out how aircrew have been kept match fit during lockdown (and for a quick Boeing 777 flying lesson)
MailOnline s Ted Thornhill visits British Airways headquarters near Heathrow - home to 15 flight simulators
There he meets Chief Pilot Captain Allister Bridger and BA s cabin safety manager, Matt Whipp
Captain Bridger reveals how pilots have constantly been keeping their skills honed on the simulators
Mr Whipp gives Ted a tour of BA s mock cabins and doors - and its two full-size emergency slides
MIAMI – British Airways (BA) is doubling its efforts to offer Britons the summer holidays they have been craving for after more than a year of strict travel abstinence.
To do so, the airline is putting on the market more than 90,000 seats available starting today, in time for the long-awaited travel bubble announced by prime Minister Boris Jonhson to become effective on May 17. The offer covers 10 sunny destinations in Greece, two in the Canary Islands, one in Turkey, and they all come together with attractive fares for what seems to become a travel rush. “It’s clear Britons are hoping that their favourite destinations will be open by the time summer comes. Neil Chernoff, British Airways’ Director of Networks and Alliances Click To Tweet
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While Samsung eventually decided to pull all Note 7 units from the market, giving up on the model entirely, fears that electronics could burst into flames for no clear reason are still around these days.
And as it turns out, it happens for a good reason, as some devices, regardless of the brand, model, or age, can still catch fire in the worst possible moments.
That is what happened on a British Airways Boeing 787 last fall, with an investigation conducted by UK’s Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) finalized this week revealing that an iPhone burst into flames while the aircraft was descending towards Heathrow.