In this issue: Business Class Deal: ANA/ITA Airways Sydney to Rome $2,860 Return Miracle on Uni Air Flight 873 – MD-90’s Only Hull Loss Male Airport Temporarily Closes After FlyDubai 737 Stuck on Runway Major Strike at Germany’s Major Airports – What you Need to Know? Turbulence Injures Ten People on TAAG Angola Flight to Lisbon Off-duty Pilot Helps Land Southwest Flight After Captain Gets Incapacitated Video: World’s Largest Airline Kitchen – Emirates Flight Catering ========================================================== Business Class Deal: ANA/ITA Airways Sydney to Rome $2,860 Return Japan’s ANA and ITA Airways are offering great business-class fares where you can travel roundtrip from Sydney to Rome for as low as $2,860 with a stop at Tokyo. You can also extend the stopover by paying a little extra for your trip. The fare consists of either ANA departing from Sydney(SYD) to Tokyo Haneda(HND) and then connecting with Italian carrier ITA Airways to Rome(FCO). What is amazing about this fare is that you would be entitled to have a stopover in Tokyo for €75. Read More Miracle on Uni Air Flight 873 – MD-90’s Only Hull Loss On August 24, 1999, a Uni Air MD-90 was operating a domestic flight from Taipei to Hualien in Taiwan. However, shortly after landing in Hualien, an explosion and fire broke out on board due to a leakage in a plastic bottle containing gasoline. As a result, Uni Air Flight 873 marked the first and only […] Continue reading "Miracle on Uni Air Flight 873 – MD-90’s Only Hull Loss" Male Airport Temporarily Closes After FlyDubai 737 Stuck on Runway On 28th March 2023, operations at Velana International Airport, Male was temporarily halted after a FlyDubai Boeing 737 MAX became stuck on the runway as it suffered multiple tires burst on landing. The Boeing 737 MAX 9, with registration A6-FNC, was performing flight FZ1569 from Dubai, UAE to Male, Maldives. However, on landing on Male’s […] Continue reading "Male Airport Temporarily Closes After FlyDubai 737 Stuck on Runway" Major Strike at Germany’s Major Airports – What you Need to Know? Germany’s union ver.di and the railway and transport union EVG have called for a 24-hour strike on Monday, March 27, which is the largest strike in decades in the country. As a result, major disruptions in flight operations have been impacting over 400,000 passengers. Staff at major airports and other means of transportation walked out […] Continue reading "Major Strike at Germany’s Major Airports – What you Need to Know?" Turbulence Injures Ten People on TAAG Angola Flight to Lisbon On 23rd March 2023, ten people including cabin crew members were injured on board a TAAG Angola Airlines flight from Angola to Lisbon after it encountered severe turbulence en route. One of the flight attendants suffered a broken leg. The Airbus A330-300 with registration 9H-HFA (chartered from Hi-Fly) was operating TAAG flight DT652 from Angola to […] Continue reading "Turbulence Injures Ten People on TAAG Angola Flight to Lisbon" Off-duty Pilot Helps Land Southwest Flight After Captain Gets Incapacitated On 22nd March 2023, a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Columbus returned to Las Vegas after the captain suddenly became ill, requiring medical attention. In the meantime, a pilot from another airline who happened to be on board stepped in to help the co-pilot to land the aircraft. The Southwest Boeing 737-700 with […] Continue reading "Off-duty Pilot Helps Land Southwest Flight After Captain Gets Incapacitated" Video: World’s Largest Airline Kitchen – Emirates Flight Catering I visited the world’s largest airline kitchen - Emirates Flight Catering. On an average day, the kitchen produced 225,000 meals and over 1 billion meals since its inception. Join me for the eye-opening behind the scenes tour. My tour started at the end of an A380 flight, over 100 used trollies, leftover food, and dirty items arrived at Emirates Flight Catering for offloading and cleaning. On average, over 3 million items are being cleaned every day by mega washing machines. The cleaned trolley and item are then board on a “monorail” to travel to the other side of the building for packing. The next stop is the hot food kitchen. Emirates has a separate kitchen section for Western food, Asian food, Arabic food and Indian food. Executive chef James Griffith showed me around each section. After the food is cooked, they go into chillers for 4 hours before arriving at portioning and packaging for flight. I witnessed the cooking by specification and weighting of food to ensure consistency. At the tray build-up area, new trays and portioned food were then loaded onto the cleaned trolley. All catering were then kept chilled before being taken by high loader truck into the airplane for passengers. Last, I visited World’s largest vertical farm, Bustanica which produces fresh lettuce for Emirates Flight Kitchen from farm to fork in just 14 hours! The vegetables were grown sustainably without using soil and fertilizer. Watch Video