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New jet lag drug has been successfully tested

You have been staring at the ceiling of your darkened hotel room for an hour and half but despite willing your eyelids to droop you are still wide awake. You glance at the clock. It is 4.10am. The sleepless nights and blurry days of jet lag will be familiar to anyone who has travelled across time zones...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008
Ten hurt as jet hits runway after bird strike

A Ryanair jet carrying 166 passengers made an emergency landing at Rome's Ciampino airport yesterday after a "huge number" of birds were sucked into its engines. Two cabin crew and eight passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries after the Boeing 737-800 crashlanded on the runway...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-10-2008
Bird strike forces Ryanair jet into emergency landing in Italy

A Ryanair jet carrying 166 passengers today made an emergency landing at Rome Ciampino airport after birds were sucked into its engines. Two cabin crew and five passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries after evacuating the aircraft via emergency chutes and the stairs. Ryanair said flight...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-10-2008
Interior minister of Mexico dies in plane crash that killed eight

Cause of the crash landing in Mexico City unknown

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Scottish flight overshoots Lanzarote runway

A flight from Glasgow to the Spanish holiday island of Lanzarote overshot the runway and skidded into an area beside the beach this morning. The Air Europa flight had touched down on a runway that ends just before a short sloping run down to the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. All 74 passengers and six...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008
Lufthansa takes control of bmi

Lufthansa signalled its intention to take on British Airways at Heathrow yesterday after the German flag carrier said it would acquire bmi, the airport's second largest airline. Sources close to the transaction also indicated that an agreement with Virgin Atlantic was possible after the carrier controlled...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2008
Airline industry: Lufthansa takes control of Britain's BMI

German airline buys chairman Sir Michael Bishop's 50% stake

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-29-2008
Airline industry: Latest traffic figures reveal too many flights for too few passengers

The airline industry's woes deepened today as it posted its biggest drop in passenger numbers in five years and Ryanair abandoned a Spanish base in a row over costs. Aviation has been a harbinger of the global downturn after record oil prices forced more then 30 airlines into bankruptcy this year...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-24-2008
Video: 'Mayhem' as Qantas flight lost altitude

Passenger describes scenes on plane forced to make emergency landing in western Australia

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-07-2008
Ex-BA executive faces US jail sentence over price-fixing

Former commercial general manager for BA's cargo arm admits fixing cost of freight services to and from US

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-01-2008

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