Flight prices from the UK to Portugal have gone up SIXFOLD just hours after the government announced it was bringing in an air bridge with the popular holiday destination. Average fare prices to Faro – the airport used by holidaymakers heading to the Algarve – rocketed from just £35 to £190 in the hours after … Read more
Israeli and German fighter jets will today honour Holocaust victims with a symbolic flyover of Dachau concentration camp to mark the countries’ fight against anti-Semitism. Israeli F-16s and Eurofighter jets of the German Luftwaffe will also overfly the nearby Fuerstenfeldbruck airbase to commemorate the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics that left 11 Israelis dead. … Read more
With the successful launch and return of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in May, space travel is getting closer to becoming a reality for the average person. But spending extended periods outside Earth’s gravity can have serious health consequences, including bone decalcification, muscle atrophy, and decreased oxygen to the brain. Astronauts in microgravity are also susceptible to … Read more
EasyJet flight to UK carrying 167 passengers was one second from crashing after crew miscalculated length of the runway by a MILE EasyJet flight from Lisbon to Manchester took off with just 110m of runway left The Airbus A320 would have covered the distance in a mere 1.3 seconds The chilling near-miss occurred after the crew … Read more
United Airlines flight at Newark Airport is evacuated on the tarmac after ‘a passenger made a bomb threat on board’ A United Airlines flight was forced to evacuate on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport Sunday after a passenger made a bomb threat, reports suggest An image of the plane posted on Twitter shows a … Read more
United Airlines flight at Newark Airport is evacuated on the tarmac after ‘a passenger made a bomb threat on board’ A United Airlines flight was forced to evacuate on the tarmac at Newark Liberty Airport Sunday after a passenger made a bomb threat, reports suggest An image of the plane posted on Twitter shows a … Read more
Air India flight from Dubai with 191 passengers onboard crash lands on runway in Kerala The Air India flight left Dubai and was overshot the runway in Calicut, Kerala Images on social media show aircraft torn in two with people gathered around According to police reports, the pilot and one other individual were killed in … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX took one small ‘hop’ closer towards the surface of Mars on Tuesday after completing the first successful launch and landing of its Starship rocket. Dubbed the SN5, the potentially revolutionary prototype performed an almost 500-foot leap above SpaceX’s development facility in Boco Chica, Texas, at 5pm local time. The nine-story large metallic … Read more
BUSINESS LIVE: BP slashes dividend; Easyjet raises flight capacity; Diageo profits slide By This Is Money Published: 08:04 BST, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 08:04 BST, 4 August 2020 BP has slashed its dividend payout to 4p per share. This is the first time it has cut the payment since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, after … Read more
Microsoft will release the latest edition of its famous Flight Simulator software for PC later this month with ultra lifelike graphics – but it will require a massive 150GB of free storage to install it. The software will make use of satellite maps from Bing as well as live readings from weather stations and airports … Read more