Hyderabad, March 20 (IANS) Air India will introduce a daily Hyderabad-Chicago flight via Delhi and Frankfurt March 29, an official said here Friday.Air India deputy general manager (commercial) Ashok Kumar told reporters here that the flight will depart from Hyderabad at 9 p.m. and reach Chicago the next day at 10.50 a.m. (local time). The flight will depart from Chicago at 4 p.m. and reach Hyderabad the next day at 2.05 a.m.
A VIRGIN Blue flight en route to Sydney has landed safely at Melbourne Airport after blowing a tyre on takeoff.Emergency services were on alert at Melbourne Airport after a Virgin Blue plane turned around amid fears it had damaged its undercarriage.Emma Stenhouse from Melbourne Airport said emergency services had been placed on high alert.
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A HOLE the size of a fist was left in the wing of an Air New Zealand A320 plane after a bird strike.The plane was travelling from Melbourne to Christchurch when it was struck, however nobody noticed at the time.An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said that the aircraft was already back in the air after the incident.”Engineers observed some damage from a suspected bird strike … following the arrival of our Melbourne-Christchurch service yesterday,” she told Press.co.nz.
FORTY years ago today, the world held its breath as the biggest and most luxurious passenger jet ever created took to the sky.A whopping 60m wingspan and a tail that stretched 20m skyward attracted huge crowds to Washington to watch the Boeing 747 ride into the record books.When the iconic plane took to the air for the first time on February 9, 1969, the jumbo jet was born and air travel changed forever.”When the 747 first arrived it was so huge. People were very excited about it,” said Captain Keith Marriott, secretary of the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA).
FORTY years ago today, the world held its breath as the biggest and most luxurious passenger jet ever created took to the sky.A whopping 60m wingspan and a tail that stretched 20m skyward attracted huge crowds to Washington to watch the Boeing 747 ride into the record books.When the iconic plane took to the air for the first time on February 9, 1969, the jumbo jet was born and air travel changed forever.”When the 747 first arrived it was so huge. People were very excited about it,” said Captain Keith Marriott, secretary of the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA).