•Grounded Iran airlines Iranian airlines were forced to cancel some international flights today after the US tightened sanctions on Iran’s aviation industry in a new effort to cripple its economy. A travel agent in Tehran told our correspondent that flights to Baghdad, Muscat, Qatar, Georgia and Azerbaijan had all been suspended, but routes to...
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has disclosed that domestic airlines delayed 4,765 flights and cancelled 36 others in August 2026, with Air Peace and United Nigeria Airlines recording the highest disruptions. The regulator made this known yesterday in a post on its official X handle, while releasing its summary of domestic airline ...
•Grounded British Airways planes at Heathrow airport Terminal 5 in west London, yesterday Almost 1,100 flights to and from UK airports were cancelled yesterday due to what the country’s air traffic control service called a technical issue, in the latest glitch to spark travel chaos. A total of 1,055 flights to and from British airports [&hell...
Passengers were left stranded at airports in Lagos and Abuja on Tuesday as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) disrupted flight operations in protest over unmet demands from domestic airlines. The industrial action, which groun...
•Some international flights in Nigeria The ongoing war between the U.S.-Israel and Iran is crippling international air transport, with average airfares recording a surge of over 100 per cent across several routes yesterday. The demand-pull inflation across European and American carriers followed the abrupt indefinite suspension of several inbo...
•German Airline, Lufthansa Almost 800 flights in Germany, affecting about 100,000 passengers, were cancelled today, Lufthansa said, as pilots and cabin crew staged a one-day strike over a pensions dispute. Airports in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf were particularly affected, according to their websites, but most flights at Munich t...
•An airplane Two Panamanian airlines said yesterday they would suspend flights to Venezuela for two days, joining several other carriers as the United States cranks up military pressure on the country. Copa Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Wingo said they would halt flights to and from Caracas today and tomorrow after their pilots reported...
•A large waves breaks behind a lifeguard tower at a beach as Super Typhoon Ragasa moved towards Hong Kong today Hong Kong shut schools and cancelled flights on Tuesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa neared the financial centre with a force that officials warned would be among the most destructive in the city’s recent history. The […]
Thousands of US air passengers were facing delays yesterday after United Airlines halted many departures in the wake of a systemwide problem. So-called “mainline flights” — those moving between major hubs — were grounded for over an hour before engineers were able to get things up and running again, reports AFP. “We are working with […]...
•Stranded passengers with their suitcases UK flights were disrupted today by a technical glitch that was quickly resolved, according to the air traffic control service. The number of aircraft in London’s airspace was limited by the service, known as NATS, as a result of a technical issue, causing airports including Gatwick and Edinburgh to sto...
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