A Korean Air Boeing 777 is still in Vancouver after a bomb threat forced it to turn around. Flight 72 (KAL072) left from Vancouver International Airport at 14:30 PT on Tuesday bound for Seoul, South Korea. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200 tail number HL7734, had only traveled as far as the north coast of British [...]

Southwest Airlines’ two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft began operational service today – April 11 2012. The first one, Flight 1717, has just taken off and can be seen live here – http://planefinder.net/flight/1717 And not long afterwards below is N8302F (Flight 653) seen departing from Baltimore Washington International (BWI / KBWI). You can see this live [...]

The Thomas Cook Group has confirmed that it could sell or lease back a number of its aircraft as part of a strategic financial review. According to Reuters, the 170-year-old travel company made the announcement on Monday as it struggles to negotiate “lifeline” loans totalling £1.2 billion. While the company did not confirm the extent [...]

April 06 2012 – Passengers are back in the UK after a frightening cabin pressure incident on a Ryanair Flight from Bergamo, Italy to Nottingham, England. The flight was Ryanair Flight FR-1707 / RYR1703 (Callsign RYR8AR) on route from Bergamo (BGY ) to East Midlands Airport (EMA) when cabin pressure suddenly dropped. The incident occurred [...]

We’re delighted to announce that you can now view cloud and weather layers on planefinder.net These new features are completely free and are a beautiful and interesting addition to the site. The image below shows the weather patterns and temperatures over Southern Europe. See here for more details on how to add these new layers. [...]

British Airways has unveiled the first of nine A319s that have been custom-painted with a celebratory London 2012 Olympic design. Brighton-based designer Pascal Anson’s winning dove design took 950 hours to apply, using 500 litres of paint and 10 men for the job, BBC News reports. A number of compromises had to be made for [...]