A man has been hauled off an Edinburgh flight and arrested over alleged ‘assaults', according to police. The 43-year-old man was travelling on a Ryanair flight from Tenerife to the Scottish capital on Tuesday evening. Flight FR 2970 was met on arrival at Edinburgh Airport, who arrested the disruptive passenger moments after the plane landed in the early hours of Wednesday. According to the Scottish Sun, the man, who was travelling with his family, became abusive towards other passengers and...
Passengers on a flight from Edinburgh to the Turkish city of Antalya were left screaming after a man brawled with police and airline staff on the plane. It happened on Saturday evening after the Easyjet flight landed at Antalya airport at around 8.15pm. Video footage posted by the Daily Record show a man, who is wearing a Celtic top, standing and punching the roof of the plane as airline staff try to keep him in his seat. The man is shouting and then appears to hit out at a female member of...
Edinburgh has the fourth worst airport in the UK in terms of flight delays, according to new data based on figures for 2023. According to analysis of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data by the PA news agency, Edinburgh Airport had an average flight delay of 21 minutes and 48 seconds last year, over a minute more than the average across the UK. The closest other major airport geographically, Glasgow, had an average delay time of 16 minutes and 36 seconds in 2023. Gatwick was the worst airport in...
bad weather throwing flight operations out of gear. Just in Delhi, 20 flights have been diverted and delayed due to bad weather. In fact, the child rights body chief complains of flight delays and how Children are suffering due to delays as well. Air India, meanwhile, has blamed this on change in weather, saying that the delays because of inclement weather here in the national capital and various other parts of India as well. In fact, right now on TV, we are being joined by two such passengers...
The discussion was sparked on Reddit's popular thread simply titled Flying. One user asked pilots: 'Have you ever kicked off a passenger from your flight?'. And, sure enough, the post was soon flooded with staggering tales
Passengers at Heathrow, the UK's busiest airport, face “major disruption”
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Passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport on the two-hour delayed flight were only told about the problem after standing at the baggage reclaim carousel for 90 minutes.
The pilot of the Birmingham to Belfast flight declared an emergency around ten minutes after take-off. After it landed safely on the runway, passengers were seen being bussed away.
The unidentified woman was filmed verbally abusing an airline's staff at the counter after she reportedly missed her flight.
Statistics show that the average delay for flights across all airports in 2023 was almost 20 minutes and 42 seconds. This was down from 23 minutes and 12 seconds in 2022, when the aviation sector struggled to cope with a surge in demand for holidays following the end of coronavirus travel restrictions. The analysis takes into account all scheduled and chartered departures from the 22 commercial UK airports with at least 1,000 outbound flights last year. Cancellations were not included in the...
An investigation is underway after dozens of mobile phones were reported stolen at an Edinburgh music festival. Police received 43 reports of phones being stolen at Terminal V festival, which was held at The Royal Highland Centre on April 13 and 14. A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “Following the Terminal V event on Saturday, 13 and Sunday, 14 April which was attended by thousands of people, we received 43 reports of mobile phones stolen. Enquiries are ongoing. "If anyone has any...