Emirates To Deploy Airbus A350 To London Gatwick

At present, Emirates offers a staggering 11 daily services to 3 London area airports! That includes 3 daily A380 services to Gatwick and 6 daily A380 services to Heathrow. Incredible! Now, it looks like things WILL change in the future as Emirates re-balances its aircraft with anticipated demand. Part of this will see the A350 deployed to Gatwick.

Rolls-Royce Retires Iconic 45-Year-Old Boeing 747-200

While Boeing 747 aircraft in passenger service are somewhat few and far between these days, examples of the older 747-200 variant are even more so.One particularly interesting example active in recent years has been a testbed plane belonging to Rolls-Royce. The British engine manufacturer had a 45-year-old 747-200B on its books used to test turbofans on flights out of Tucson in Arizona.