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Breaking: Russian aviation hit in a significant way again - this time, by Bermuda. Bermuda revokes the licenses of 745 Russian aircraft (that’s 50% of Russia’s airline fleet).
Note: Majority of aircraft flying for Russian airlines are registered in Bermuda for tax avoidance.
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UK government confirm tonight that if a person has been vaccinated in Africa, or South America, or countries including UAE, India, Turkey, Jordan, Thailand, Russia…
…you are considered “unvaccinated” and must follow “unvaccinated” rules ⛔️ = 10 day home quarantine & tests
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Understanding, MULTIPLE countries are not happy with UK government tonight 😬
One foreign minister tells me: “In our first meeting with Liz Truss, UK new Foreign Secretary, we expect her to explain why our Pfizer jabs are supposedly different to Pfizer jabs in UK or Europe” 🔥
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In addition - foreign leasing companies want their jets back from Russia by 28 March.
Russian airlines “simply not answering the phone” one lessor tells me, as they prepare to ‘write off’ dozens of multi-million dollar airline jets that could be “essentially gone for good”
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Claiming
@FlyEthiopian
is an airline with a “poor safety record” because of hijacking attempts over last 20 years is irresponsible.
By that logic, American Airlines, United & Air France are also airlines with, quote “poor safety records”
#ET302
#737MAX
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Quick one: This is not ‘Boris Johnson’s plane’ — it’s a British Airways Boeing 777 with hundreds of passengers onboard (and one of them happens to be a law-breaking former PM still under investigation, one that was removed from office 3 months ago following a string of scandals)
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Breaking: The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to ban air travel to/from the UK because of a new strain of
#COVID19
spreading across Britain ✈️⛔️
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Bermuda’s Civil Aviation Authority admits it “cannot assert with any certainty that the aircraft of Russian airlines with Bermuda registration are airworthy”
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Quite something for UK to take such a stance against so many countries vaccine rollouts…especially those countries administering the *exact same* vaccines as UK (Pfizer/AZ/Moderna/etc) 🤔
As we’ve come to expect, UK’s latest travel policy is as unnecessarily complicated as ever
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Is it any wonder why the UK is suffering one of worst in the world with
#COVID19
?
English band ‘Right Said Fred’ brag about refusing to wear a mask at Heathrow, claims staff applauded move & for “speaking out on Covid”
BOTH Heathrow + BA reply, saying it’s ‘great to hear’?!?!
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Deeply concerning incident at Africa’s largest airline — Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737
#ET343
was still at cruising altitude of 37,000ft by the time it reached destination Addis Ababa
Why hadn’t it started to descend for landing? Both pilots were asleep.
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Latest: Canada 🇨🇦 will require all commercial airline passengers to be fully vaccinated for
#COVID19
(including for all domestic flight passengers, all intl flights to/from Canada, etc).
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Breaking: Emirates, one of the largest long-haul airlines in the world, will suspend ALL flights ⚠️
#COVID19
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Breaking: Bulgaria has banned all UK travellers following the UK’s decision to add Bulgaria to its “green list” (😬)
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Breaking: Russia refused to allow today’s Air France flight from Paris to Moscow to fly into Russian airspace because the flight would have avoided Belarus airspace (— a new escalation in an aviation political war between Europe and Belarus.
#Belarus
)
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UK Prime Minister declares another lockdown, but still: no border controls
Britain will remain open to all 👇🏽
No passenger testing ✖️
No airport screening ✖️
No measures to manage the inbound/outbound flow ✖️
Literally the opposite of the rest of the world...again. 🤯
#COVID19
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Breaking: Saudi Arabia to allow UAE-Israel flights (such as Dubai-Tel Aviv) to overfly Saudi airspace
With Saudi airspace access, flights between Dubai/Abu Dhabi – Tel Aviv could begin as soon as this year, in what is considered an unprecedented development for the region ✈️
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Breaking: Spain 🇪🇸 bans all unvaccinated visitors from the UK — amid the UK’s high infection rate. Only vaccinated visitors (and their children) can travel to Spain, effective 1 Dec.
#COVID19
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Breaking: Qatar Airways acquire a 60% stake in Rwanda’s new International Airport project 🇶🇦🇷🇼
• Qatar will build, own 60%, and operate the new state-of-the-art airport near Kigali ✈️
• New airport will handle 7 million passengers at launch year
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Most On-Time Airlines in Europe over the last twelve months...👇🏽
1. Iberia 🇪🇸
2. Air Europa 🇪🇸
3. Iberia Express 🇪🇸
4. Vueling 🇪🇸
5. Austrian Airlines 🇦🇹
6. Norwegian Air Shuttle 🇳🇴
7. ITA Airways 🇮🇹
8. Norwegian Air Intl 🇳🇴
9. Finnair 🇫🇮
10. LOT Polish Airlines 🇵🇱
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@cirium
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UK Health Sec Matt Hancock to
@PiersMorgan
says at least 15,000 passengers still entering Britain every day, admits there still is not, and never has been, any checks/measures/tests/quarantine/restrictions/ for any passengers — plus no isolation rules, despite “lockdown”
#COVID19
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Surprised to discover that in the UK the BBC decided not to broadcast the Opening Ceremony of the first ever World Cup in the Arab world?! There were some incredible moments, such as this 👇🏽
#Qatar2022
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LIVE: Let’s be clear,
@FlyEthiopian
is an incredibly safe & trusted airline. This is not an airline with a “poor safety record” as the presenter said.
#ET302
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Ethiopian Airlines flight
#ET302
dropped from radar 6 minutes after departure from Addis Ababa
The jet is a brand new Boeing 737 MAX 8 - delivered to the airline just four months ago.
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UK Quarantine Reality👇🏽
Madrid to Heathrow flight
Onboard: passengers from ‘red list’ countries, such as Brazil, and passengers from elsewhere
They all mix: boarding, onboard, same lavatory, on arrival
On arrival: Some escorted to quarantine, others walk free on to the tube.
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Last night, a British Airways jet flew New York to London in 4h56mins — almost certainly a new record for the fastest (subsonic) flight in this direction due to
#StormCiara
winds ✈️💨
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This is the second major, fatal accident involving the Boeing 737 MAX in less than five months.
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Breaking: It’s done! Here in Paris, IndiGo, India’s largest airline by market share, has placed a firm order for 500 A320 Family aircraft, setting the record for the largest single purchase agreement in the history of commercial aviation. Huge.
#PAS13
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Breaking: A passenger Boeing 737 is missing after losing contact with Indonesian authorities shortly after take off from Jakarta airport.
Sriwijaya Air flight
#SJ182
is a 737-500 (classic narrow body airline jet) — the aircraft in question is 26 years old. More to follow.
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Nice gesture as Qatari families offered homemade food, drinks & snacks to fans tonight as we left Al Thumama stadium following the Morocco-Canada match 🌯🫕🥤
#Qatar2022
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Staggering — Heathrow’s twitter reply even says “Sometimes it’s those simple things...” 🤯
What simple things? The show of support from staff (he claims) following his decision to refuse to wear a mask & therefore endanger the lives of others because he’s a selfish Covidiot?
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@mrjamesob
The UK does not have an air travel strategy to ensure
#COVID19
+ air travel can coexist for the long-term.
No airport testing for passengers, no measures/checks/screening – unlike much of rest of the world.
Govt’s only (unsustainable) fallback option? Last-min quarantine.
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Latest: Ukraine says multiple possible theories are being discussed with Iranian investigators: including the 737 “being hit by an anti-aircraft missile, a collision, technical failure or a terrorist act”
#PS752
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Unbelievable, desperate scenes at Kabul’s international airport 👇🏽 thousand of people, families, young children, all trying to leave
#Kabul
as the Taliban takes hold.
Chaos on the tarmac with people moving around between airline jets
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“Don’t be a MAX, don’t be a MAX, don’t be a MAX”
…yup, it’s a 737 MAX.
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Emirates airline President Tim Clark on Boeing and the latest 737 MAX incident: “They’ve had quality control problems for a long time now, and this is just another manifestation of that”
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There’s no travel ban — UK stopped short of it despite “genuine fears” over new
#COVID19
strain.
Passengers are able to easily travel between UK and S Africa via transit airports
(And yet still, for passengers arriving to UK: no tests, no screening, no measures - 1 year on)
Help me out here...does this amount to a ban on UK/SA travel? Doesn’t appear to:
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Breaking: Bulgaria 🇧🇬 joins other European nations, including Poland, in closing airspace to all Russian aircraft, effective tonight ✈️⛔️
#UkraineUnderAttack
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Now: Sitting down with CEO of Rwandair, Ms Yvonne Makolo 🇷🇼 — one of the fastest growing airlines in the world ✈️
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It’s quite fitting, though — given when you arrive at London Heathrow Airport you’re often greeted by a number of maskless staff, one year into a pandemic of a respiratory virus that’s airborne. 😶
(Also, no tests, checks, screening, etc either).
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Breaking: Italy joins The Netherlands and Belgium in banning all flights to/from the UK because of a new strain of
#COVID19
spreading across Britain ✈️⛔️
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Breaking: Lithuania 🇱🇹 will close its airspace to all Russian aircraft ✈️⛔️ — joining Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Romania, Czechia.
#WarInUkraine
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Extraordinary daylight images of the burnt wreckage of the Japan Airlines A350 — which was flaming for around three hours.
Crucially, in the immediate aftermath of the collision, the fire seemed to be contained in the left wing area due to firewalls made of materials which…
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Breaking: Finland’s 🇫🇮 Minister of Transport confirms Finland is preparing to close its airspace to Russia ✈️⛔️👇🏽
Suomi valmistautuu ilmatilan sulkemiseen venäläiseltä lentoliikenteeltä. 🇫🇮🇺🇦
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Gove tells
@PiersMorgan
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#COVID19
, passengers flying to UK could finally be required to test negative before flying here
The reason Gove is unsure of number of arriving passengers tested at airports...is because there’s STILL no testing
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الخطوط الجوية القطرية تشتري حصة جديدة بقيمة 600 مليون دولار في الخطوط الجوية البريطانية ، والخطوط الجوية الأيبيرية في اسبانيا ، وشركة الطيران الأيرلندية 'أير لينغس' ، وشركة طيران Level ، وخطوط فيولينغ الجوية
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On same flight
Two passengers: 01A + 01B are together for 2hrs. Dining. Drinking.
On arrival 👇🏽
01A: travels across England’s vast rail network, travels up to Scotland, stopping at Starbucks, pops into M&S en route, etc
01B: is escorted to quarantine hotel at cost of £1700+
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Breaking: Germany is considering banning almost all international flights to the country in order to prevent new
#COVID19
variants from spreading – confirms Germany's Interior Minister ✈️⛔️⚠️
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Ethiopian Airlines is STILL a world-class brand with a great safety record. Such headlines are disrespectful by its attempt to conclude the airline is to blame for
#ET302
crash...despite the majority of the investigation (so far) focusing on a Boeing
#737MAX
fault.
Ethiopian Airlines was a world-class brand with a great safety record until the flight ET302 crash put its reputation in jeopardy
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Extraordinary image of the Russian Ural Airlines Airbus A320 after it made a forced emergency landing in a field near Novosibirsk.
All 167 onboard
#SVR1383
(operating a flightfrom Sochi to Omsk) are uninjured.
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Breaking: Russia ban all UK airlines from using its airspace, including for overflight ✈️⛔️ — a retaliation that’ll impact UK-Asia flights.
#Ukraine
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Breaking: French BEA (responsible for aviation investigations) confirm yesterday’s Air France flight
#AF11
Boeing 777 suffered a “serious incident” — the aircraft "was not responding” on final approach
Pilots sound (understandably) stressed…🤯 Listen👇🏽
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Alaska’s Anchorage Airport is starting to receive inquiries from airlines as international routes prepare for disruption, per reuters.
Anchorage was the refueling stopover for flights during Cold War, when most airlines were banned from Russian airspace on Europe-Asia flights👇🏽
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There are not many national airlines that could list their entire flight schedule in one tweet! 😅
Take note of our flight Schedules;
•NAIROBI Twice Daily
•JUBA Daily
•DAR ES SALAAM Daily (Except Wednesday)
•MOGADISHU 4 times Weekly
Book your ticket here 👇
#FlyUgandaAirlines
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Breaking: Morocco, El Salvador, Romania, join France, Germany, Italy & a long list of countries banning all travel to/from the UK ✈️⛔️
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has closed its borders to ALL, ending intl travel “due to the
#COVID19
mutation found in UK, S Africa & Denmark” ⚠️
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Breaking: It’s happening. While UK government continue to force costly quarantine on passenger arrivals, including the fully-vaccinated...
People with a "Euro 2020 invite" will not quarantine.
UK give in to UEFA’s demands.
Aviation sector is furious. …
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Given UK is unable to safely manage the inbound & outbound flow of passengers from around the world (as there are no measures in place) — any progress from
#Lockdown3
will be wiped out by either reimporting COVID19, or by allowing new strains to enter without any detection.
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Remember the
#Ryanair
Crew who posed for this photo, in order to spread the truthful message online that Ryanair were forcing the crew to spend the night on the airport office floor, falsely blaming ‘full hotels’?
Ryanair has just fired each and every member of the crew...
While
#Ryanair
’s COO
@PeterBellew
states “all hotels were completely booked out in Malaga” — this is simply not the truth.
I’ve also spoken to the ‘SALA VIP’ lounge at Malaga Airport, who confirmed no crew from any airline entered the lounge...
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Both
@PiersMorgan
and Dr Hilary commenting on how “it’s lunacy” for Britain to still be continuing to have flight arrivals from
#COVID19
hotspots — passengers continue to walk into UK, unchecked, without any measures in place.
@GMB
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Effective today, if you’re flying from one of these countries to England — you do not need to self-quarantine 🚷✈️
Reminder: There’s still no nationwide checks, no measures, no screening, & no testing for air travel passengers arriving to Britain.
#COVID19
👇🏽
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With this in mind, it remains v unclear what the actual goal of the UK’s new quarantine policy even is?
One airport exec told me earlier: “At least if the policy was implemented properly there’d be a chance of it being able to achieve something — anything!” 🤯
#COVID19
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@GaryLineker
Come on, Gary - look at what it was like around an hour before the game 🔥👇🏽 🇧🇷
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Breaking: Switzerland 🇨🇭 adds UK to its ‘risk country’ list. 🚨 ALL passengers from UK to Switzerland must test negative before flight, & then quarantine on arrival for 10 days. ⛔️
#Omicron
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Breaking: UK will finally require ALL passengers travelling to UK to present a negative
#COVID19
result (obtained 72 hrs before travel) in order to be permitted to depart to UK ✈️⚠️
Almost 1 year into the crisis, this is an easy mandate that shifts testing responsibility abroad.
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Latest: Lufthansa reveals more details on its “largest investment in premium products” with new a new First Class suite on A350s, 787-9s 777-9s, plus Business Class updates, a new Premium Economy, & and an Economy Class ‘Sleeper’ concept. Take a look 👇🏽
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New: At the Airbus Delivery Centre in Toulouse, I’m onboard Japan Airlines 🇯🇵 first A350-1000 XWB.
Onboard: 6 First Class (enclosed private suites with a door), 54 Business Class suites, 24 Premium Economy & just 155 Economy class — this is a very premium heavy aircraft bound
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عاجل: وافق مجلس منظمة الطيران المدني الدولي (إيكاو) على مقترح قطر الخاص بإعادة ترسيم حدودها الجوية وتوسيعها، مما يجعل قرار المجلس انتصاراً تاريخياً لدولة قطر
#aviation
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Sriwijaya Air is Indonesia’s third largest airline, listed as a “Category 1” airline, the country’s highest safety rating
@flightradar24
’s ADS-B data from
#SJ182
shows the aircraft losing “more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than 1 minute” less than 5 mins after departure
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UK government is set announce mandatory hotel quarantine for passenger arrivals, one whole year into this
#COVID19
crisis.
During this next phase, measures (testing, screening) must *finally* be established so that UK can manage inbound/outbound passenger flow for the long term.
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Pilot fatigue is nothing new, and continues to pose one of the most significant threats to air safety - internationally.
Just last week, pilots publicly criticised UK leisure airline Jet2 for “refusing to recognise concerns about pilot fatigue”
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Latest: President Joe Biden has signed an executive order requiring all passengers traveling to the US to quarantine upon arrival. ✈️🇺🇸
#COVID19
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NEW: Saudi Arabia’s new state airline ‘Riyadh Air’ livery revealed on its first Boeing 787-9 ✈️🖌️
Riyadh Air, owned entirely by
#Saudi
’s sovereign wealth fund, will compete directly from its Riyadh hub with neighbouring airline giants Emirates, Qatar Airways, & Turkish Airlines
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Breaking: Qatar Airways will fly a convoy of 8 cargo aircraft, with a 4 minute spacing between each flight, to Beijing, Guangzhou & Shanghai on Friday – carrying medical supply donations from around the world.
#China
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Air traffic controllers tried to contact the pilots numerous times without success
After overflying the runway (still at cruising altitude), the autopilot disconnected - and this chime alert woke the pilots up — who then initiated a descent and eventually made a safe landing.
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British Airways and Virgin Atlantic
#A350
jets performed a synchronised departure from London Heathrow today to mark the return of travel to the US for fully-vaccinated visitors👇🏽✈️🇺🇸
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Breaking: Indonesia's transport ministry confirms a search and rescue operation is now under way after contact was lost with the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737, flight
#SJ182
⚠️
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Finland’s airspace closure would be significant. Not only would it extend the ‘wall’ and make it even harder for Russia to fly into/over Europe (much longer flight times, extra fuel, etc) but the Finns would make this decision knowing full well Russia *will* retaliate.
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Over 40,000 loyal British Airways staff face the prospect of losing their livelihoods or potentially being re-interviewed for their own jobs on vastly reduced terms — to be clear: in other countries, this is not happening to their national airlines.
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Breaking: All flights across the US have been grounded due to a system failure at the Federal Aviation Administration, related to NOTAMs— impact on flights is likely to be global, more to follow.
#aviation
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It makes zero sense to restrict outbound international travel without implementing border controls, testing & measures to manage the inbound flow of passengers.
(East Asia’s view on UK: Any progress with
#Lockdown2
will be wiped out by UK continuing to reimport the virus) 🔄
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This footage from Kabul airport — Afghans desperately trying to board a C-17 airlifter from the Gulf.
#Afghanistan
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Oman Air: the latest 👇🏽🇴🇲
• All A330s exit the fleet
• Route network slashed, destinations cut include Colombo, Islamabad
• Dozens of crew informed they will be made redundant
• Flight frequencies on existing routes will face cuts
• Chelsea FC deal terminated
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The brand new Boeing
#737MAX
(involved in today’s Ethiopian Airlines crash) is in service with many airlines worldwide — including: American Airlines, Norwegian, FlyDubai, Air Italy,
LOT Polish Airlines & TUI.
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The flight was denied entry, & cancelled, yet Air France were simply following European directives ⚠️
EASA Safety Information Bulletin now advises airlines to avoid Belarus ⛔️ adding “the incident put into question the ability of Belarus to provide safe air navigation services”
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Pleasure to be with Johnny Depp here at the opening ceremony in Qatar 🇶🇦
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Breaking: Kuwait ban ALL commercial flights to/from Kuwait International Airport from Friday until further notice — this is huge
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New: Emirates CEO has said he’s witnessed the “progressive decline” in Boeing’s standards, which he put down to long-running management and governance mis-steps, including prioritising financial performance over engineering excellence.
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South Korea: Airport testing for passengers since March
Hong Kong, Japan: Testing inbound travellers since April
Austria: Airport testing since May
Germany: Airport testing since June
UK in October: No airport testing ✖️ No strategy ✖️ No measures ✖️
#COVID19
#Airlines2050
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World Cup Qatar: My thoughts on
#Qatar2022
as over a million people arrive to Doha for what’s been an impressive global event so far…👇🏽
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Breaking: Saudi Arabia agree to open its airspace to Qatar (as well as its land and sea borders) - tonight - following the
#GulfCrisis
blockade that started back in 2017.
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Latest: Singapore Airlines has become one of the first airlines in the world to begin vaccinating its airline staff members with the
#COVID19
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines
• Vaccines started today at Singapore Changi Airport for pilots, cabin crew, airport staff, engineers & more.
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Breaking: UK government (which just weeks ago encouraged the public to all go abroad for pandemic holidays, without any measures in place) will implement mandatory quarantine for ALL arrivals from Spain, effective tomorrow amid the country’s spike in COVID19 infections.
#COVID19
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Breaking: Qatar Airways reveal the Airbus A350 damage to the public in light of to Airbus’ significant escalation 🚨✈️
The airline says it strongly believes Airbus must undertake a thorough investigation of the A350 surface degradation & establish a root cause. Here’s the video👇🏽
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Perhaps UK government could, in today’s briefing, explain what ‘science’ they’re ‘following’ for airport quarantine that shows the virus only knows how to enter Britain by direct flight, and *definitely not* by transiting via Paris?
#COVID19
A two-week quarantine period for people arriving in the UK will be introduced "as soon as possible"
But, people arriving from the Republic of Ireland will be exempt, as will travellers from France
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Update: It’s 05:30am in Jakarta, and the search and rescue operation for the missing Boeing 737
#SJ182
will resume soon
Debris was found prior to nightfall, the situation is set to become clearer over the coming hours — thoughts continue to be with loved ones of those onboard 🙏🏽
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