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Emirates Airbus A380 A6-EUB and Scoot Boeing 787 9V collide at Singapore around 2am. Emirates was at Fate C23 standadrd pushback face south, Scoot left turn from NC A6-EUB 9V-OJA

Emirates airline will introduce a “laptop and tablet handling service,” a move that follows an electronics carry-on ban introduced by the United States this week. With the service, Emirates is attempting to minimize the inconvenience to fliers affected by the new U.S. directive, which indefinitely covers U.S.-bound flights from 10 airports in Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Dubai, where Emirates operates a major international connecting hub, is among the airports covered by the ban. The United Kingdom also has introduced a similar measure, though its ban does not include Dubai. Emirates' new handling service will be offered for free to customers traveling to the U.S. from Dubai, allowing them to use their laptaps and tablets until just before boarding. Prior to boarding, customers will be required to “declare and hand over their laptops, tablets, and other banned electronic devices to security staff” as they go through gate-side screening in Dubai. “Our aim is to ensure c...

MIAMI  — The biggest aviation story of the last four decades (basically since deregulation of airlines in the United States) has been  the rise of the Middle Eastern airlines giants  Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Etihad, as well as their rival to the north Turkish Airlines. In Part II of our analysis of these carriers, we take a look at some of the headwinds that these carriers have faced in the last couple of years, and consider what the future may hold for them. THE MEB3 + 1 HAVE RUN MANY SHARED HEADWINDS It’s no accident that the recent downturn in the fortunes of the MEB3+1 has coincided with a period of sharply lower oil prices and thus jet fuel prices.   Many of the factors above, whether related to political will or location, helped give the MEB3 an overarching cost advantage, and in the 2005-2014 run of seemingly never ending growth, one of the biggest reasons that passengers chose the MEB3+1 over European and Asian rivals was indeed price, al...

Remember the Bombardier Challenger 604 that was flipped upside down by an Emirates Airbus A380 and rolled 3 - 5 times? Well this is the remains of the jet

A harrowing freak air accident that has only just been revealed saw an Airbus A380 commercial jetliner flown by Emirates cause a much smaller business jet passing beneath it to flip upside down and plummet thousands of feet. The incident is a sharp reminder of why passengers should always wear their seat belts. According to information obtained by the  Aviation Herald , on the morning of 7 January an Emirates  Airbus A380-800  was flying from Dubai to Sydney. While the aeroplane was en route over the Arabian Sea, roughly about 630 nautical miles southeast of Muscat, a Bombardier  Challenger 604  business jet operated by German carrier MHS Aviation passed by 1,000ft beneath it. A thousand feet might seem like a great distance between two aeroplanes, but the wake turbulence caused by the A380 jetliner was so great that one minute after the airliner passed by above, very high G-force sent the business jet into an uncontrolled roll that turned the aircraft upsi...