Spain’s largest privately funded airline SpanAir will go bust tonight at midnight after a Qatar investment fund pulled out of a deal at the last minute. Established in 1986 they had a total of 29 aircraft in their fleet, comprised mainly of Airbus A320′s.  Routes were mainly within mainland Europe with some to Northern Africa. [...]

Yesterday (January 16th) Singapore airlines retired the traditional Boeing 747 making the daily trip from Singapore to New York via Frankfurt.  The new service is using Singapore Airlines’ new A380 fleet and the first flight was performed by 9V-SKK.  Currently Singapore Airlines have 15 super jumbos in their fleet with another 4 on order! This [...]

FedEx are once again flying two VIP’s (Very Important Panda’s) from China to the Beauval ZooParc in Paris! The two Pandas,  Huan Huan (Happy) and Yuan Zi (Chubby) are currently on board the FedEx Panda Express aircraft that has been specially adapted (and painted) for the occasion. The Boeing 777F (N892FD) is traveling the 5000 miles [...]

Yesterday we saw a strange track on planefinder.net!  Callsign CASA16 with aircraft ZZ-330. Turns out this was the Royal Air Force’s new air to air refuelling tanker in testing!  Apparently there were also a couple of Eurofighter jets there too as part of a full test! See the flight for yourself by clicking the link [...]

Last night there was a lot of activity on Twitter about a Ryanair flight that was bound for Oslo (ENRY) from Liverpool (EGGP) airport. @FMCNL noticed a strange flight before it started squawking 7700.   The flight was RYR9128 and was flown by a Boeing 737-800 EI-ENI.  The flight was en route over the North [...]

A British Airways jet was forced to make an emergency landing after both the captain and first officer nearly passed out. The Airbus A321-200 G-EUXL was flying from London Heathrow to Glasgow on the 20th December 2011. The flight number was BA1486/SHT6E. The crew were climbing out of Heathrow after taking off from 27R when [...]

Mount Etna volcano in Sicily, Italy has erupted overnight sending an ash cloud high into the air.  Eurocontrol have issued NOTAMs (Notice to Airmen) alerts advising of flight traffic re-routing in the region. This is likely to cause some local disruption and delays around Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (LICC/CTA).  Pinkfroot are plotting the ash cloud, and its effect [...]