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📷 Iberia employee goes viral for heartwarming gesture with a young boy at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. The boy, guided by the employee, sits at the check-in counter, handles luggage check-in, and wears Iberia's corporate jacket. The video, shared by the boy's mother Ana Arévalo Vargas, gains applause online, with calls for the employee's recognition and reward.

✈ Pilots of Emirates' A380 showcased skill during a challenging landing at Birmingham airport due to a sudden wind shift before touchdown, resulting in a rough landing and the need for the commander to correct the course.

✈ British Airways left 25,000 passengers stranded after hundreds of flight cancellations on Friday and Saturday. The airline extended issues into Sunday, citing bad weather, with an additional 30 short-haul flights canceled at Heathrow Airport. Affected travelers reported not receiving entitled accommodation, and while some media hinted at IT issues causing the problem, the airline has not confirmed or denied these claims.

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✈ A Vueling Airbus A320 crew encountered multiple incidents flying from Bilbao to Oporto, including bird strikes against one engine and a tire blowout upon landing in the northern Portuguese city. The usual one-hour flight took two hours and 18 minutes to complete.

✈ Eurowings flight from Sarrebruck, southwest Germany, to Mallorca faced delays; passengers allowed to leave the plane to stretch legs. The pilot received a 10-minute notice to take off, choosing to leave without the disembarked passengers to avoid stranding others in Mallorca. This decision, criticized by media as selfish, highlights the dilemma airlines face with customer satisfaction and operational constraints.

✈️ Johannes Klinsmann, former manager of Germania and Air Berlin, launches a new charter airline, Leav. Leav received its certificate and will focus on the holiday market. The company is managed by Daniel Broda, a former Easyjet pilot. Starting with two A320 aircraft, Leav will fly routes to Mallorca, Cos, Rhodes, Crete, and the winter destination Arvidsjaur in Lapland. The main base is Cologne Bonn with a smaller presence in Munich. Leav also offers ACMI services to other airlines and has about forty employees. The airline has three weekly flights scheduled to Mallorca from Cologne in October, with the option for seat reservations, indicating some regular or seat-only sales. The fleet operates on a leasing basis.

🚂 Iryo will start a new Barcelona-Málaga route on December 15, with two daily frequencies and 336,530 annual seats available. The journey, stopping in Zaragoza, Madrid, and Córdoba, takes approximately 5 hours and 50 minutes. Departures are at 11:50 from Barcelona, arriving at 17:42 in Málaga, and vice versa at 11:35. Iryo also launched advanced ticket sales for 2025, making 70% of next year's tickets available now.

✈ On Saturday, Cathay Pacific's 18 A350s in Hong Kong will fly unrestricted after changing a piece in Rolls Royce engines. EASA ordered all A350s in Europe to inspect and replace this part to prevent fire risks. The issue arose last Monday when a flight from Hong Kong to Switzerland had to return, affecting 88 aircraft worldwide, with British Airways as the main European user. Singapore Airlines is also inspecting its 64 A350 900s as a precaution. ????

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