A study of government-sourced near misses shows 241 close encounters between pilots and "drones" (UAS). These are defined as aircraft within 500ft of each other. Most incidents occurred at higher than 500AGL and within 5nm of an airport.
The Sharm el Sheikh resort shows no sign of recovery after a Metrojet crash in October killing all on board.
Tourism numbers has reduced by 85% since the suspension of UK tourists and flights into the county.
Hotels and businesses in Sharm suffer and struggle to remain open following to fall in tourists visiting the resort.
Egypt's income is said to be down £120m a month because of the change in numbers.
British and Russian airlines were told to suspend their services to Sharm - here is a list of flights suspended from Sharm airport along with other European airlines also taken the safety measure as a precaution:
Adria Airways' charter flights to Ljubljana
Aeroflot to Moscow and St Petersburg
British Airways to London (Gatwick)
Danish Air Transport to Copenhagen
Edelweiss Air to Zurich
easyJet to London (Gatwick, Luton and Stansted), Milan and Manchester
I-Fly to Moscow
Jet Time to Billund and Copenhagen (Stockholm service operates as normal)
Jetairfly (TUI Airlines Belgium) to Brussels
Kogalymavia (Metrojet) to Mineralnye Vody, Moscow and St Petersburg
Monarch to Birmingham, London (Gatwick and Luton) and Manchester
NordStar to Moscow and St Petersburg
Nordwind Airlines to Barnaul, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Rostov-on-Don
Orenair charger flights to Belgorod, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Tuymen, Volgograd and Yekaterinburg.
RusLine to Belgorod
SAS to Copenhagen (Stockholm service operates as normal)
SunExpress Deutschland to Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart
Thomas Cook to Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow, London (Gatwick and Stansted), Manchester and Newcastle
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium to Brussels
Thomson to Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, London (Gatwick, Luton and Stansted), Manchester, Newcastle
Turkish Airlines to Istanbul (resuming today (2nd Jan))
Ural Airlines to St Petersburg and Perm
UTair to Moscow, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and St Petersburg
The Brookes family was flying to Durban from Manchester on Christmas Eve with a stop in Dubai.
Son, Joshua, who is 12 was stopped from flying because of a missing travel document.
Apparently, new laws now require child visitors to have a full birth certificate which caused Joshua and his Mum to fly out six days into their two week break.
The cause of the pair being stopped from boarding was because of South Africa's new strict child trafficking laws. The Emirates staff at Manchester airport stopped the two from boarding because they did not have the long version of Joshua's birth certificate.
Hong Kong International Airport opened a new $10 billion concourse this week. The Midfield Concourse’s 19 gates and 20 aircraft parking stands will allow the airport to handle an additional 10 million passengers per year.
TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 (B-22816) was a domestic flight from Taipei Songshan Airport, Taiwan to Kinmen Airport, Taiwan. The flight was carrying 53 passengers & 5 crew members. Two minutes after take off from Taipei the pilots reported an engine flameout. Flight 235 climbed to a maximum height of 1,500ft then descended. The other working engine was shut down mistakenly. Immediately before crashing into the Keelung river, it banked sharply left and clipped a taxi travelling west on the Huandong Viaduct, then the viaduct itself, with its left wing. 43 of the 58 on board lost their lives.
24 March - Germanwings Flight 4U9525
Germanwings Flight 4U9525 (D-AIPX) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Spain to Düsseldorf Airport, Germany. The flight was carrying 144 passengers & 6 crew members. One minute after the last routine contact with ATC & shortly after it had reached its assigned cruising altitude. The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies locked the captain out of the cockpit before initiating a descent that caused the aircraft to crash into the French Alps. All 144 passengers & 6 crew members lost their lives.
30 June - Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash
Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules (A-1310) was a transport military flight from Soewondo Air Force Base, Medan to Raja Haji Fisabilillah Airport, Tanjung Pinang. The aircraft was carrying 110 passengers & 12 crew members. Two minutes after take off the plane rolled to the right clipping a cellphone tower then struck three buildings inverted. Killing all 122 & 17 on the ground. It was reported that engine number 4 had malfunctioned, indicating a mechanical failure.
22 August - Shoreham Airshow crash
A Canfield Hunter Limited Hawker Hunter T7 (G-BXFI) crashed during a display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England. The aircraft failed to complete a loop manoeuvre & crashed onto vehicles on the A27 truck road, West Sussex. Killing 11 people on the ground including 2 players from Worthing United Football Club. The pilot survived the crash and was placed in a medically-induced coma. Later recovered. It was the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since the 1952 Farnborough air show crash, which killed 31 people.
31 October - Kogalymavia (Metrojet) Flight 7K9268
Kogalymavia (Metrojet) Flight 7K9268 (EI-ETJ) was an international chartered passenger flight from Sharm el-Sheikh Internation Airport, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt to Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The flight was carrying 217 passengers & 7 crew members. 23 minutes after taking off from el-Sheikh, the aircraft disintegrated above North Sinai Governorate. All 217 passengers & 7 crew members lost their lives. Soon after the crash, the ISIL claimed responsibility for the incident. ISIL posted pictures of what is said was the bomb in its online magazine. The Russian Federal Security Service announced they were sure that it was a terrorist attack, caused by an improvised bomb containing the equivalent of up to 1 kilogram (2.2lb) of TNT. This accident is the deadliest crash involving an aircraft from the Airbus A320 family. Article by: @AirCrashMayday
