Malaysia Airlines is to ban babies travelling in first class flight on the airline's new Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-400 fleet.

The airline said they have introduced the baby ban after getting lot of complaints about crying infants from first class travelers.

Those wishing to travel with infants will have to book bassinets in business or economy sections instead.

Malaysia Airlines CEO Tengku Azmil told the Australia Business Traveller first-class passengers complained about spending a lot of money and not being able to sleep “due to crying Babies”.

A MOTHER claims a budget airline refused to carry her disabled son because health and safety rules meant his wheelchair was too heavy for baggage handlers.


Outraged Alexandra Spencer is considering taking legal action after Easyjet Airlines turned away her terminally ill son Declan, 12, from what cold be his last holiday abroad.


Miss Spencer, 29, said she was told by the budget airline that it would not take Declan on a flight to Cyprus because his specialised 95kg wheelchair presented a healthy and safety risk to staff.


An easyJet spokesman said the company was “extremely saddened” at being unable to help, but insisted it was bound by health and safety rules at the airport.

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The Skytrax World Airline Awards Ceremony took place in Paris, France. During a 10 month survey period, 18.8 million airline customers from over 100 different nationalities participated in this customer satisfaction survey.

Turkish Airlines has been also named as the winner of the categories, “Best Airline Europe”, “Best Premium Economy Seats” for its Comfort Class seats and “Best Airline Southern Europe” at the World Airline Awards.

The award was given to Turkish Airlines' General Manager Temel Kotil, Ph.D. by the CEO of Skytrax, Edward Plaisted.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Federal Aviation Administration says two Jersey residents died when a small plane crashed in central Ohio near the end of a runway at Rickenbacker International Airport, just south of Columbus, authorities said Sunday.

The single-engine Cirrus CR22 was leaving Ohio Airport in Columbus for a trip to New Jersey when it crashed shortly before 9 a.m., destroying the airplane and killing both people on board.

The Ohio Highway Patrol identified the pair as pilot Viswanathan Rajaraman, 54, and his wife Mary Sundaram, 50, both of Franklin Lakes, N.J. Troopers said Rajaraman was a licensed pilot.


When Pilot was attempting to take off outbound to New Jersey and crashed east of the runway at airport. The plane caught fire and Hamilton and Madison township fire departments responded to the scene.

The bomb squad was called to the scene to deactivate a parachute deployment charge that the plane was equipped with. The parachute charge was deactivated without incident, the patrol said.

Federal authorities in the District and Ohio are investigating a bomb threat made from an airport ticket counter Sunday that closed Reagan National Airport for a portion of the afternoon.

The threat placed the bomb on U.S. Airways flight 2596 from Dayton, Ohio to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport. After the plane landed Sunday afternoon, authorities swept the aircraft, and interviewed all 44 passengers aboard. No explosives were found and the plane was declared safe four hours later.

The incident temporarily halted flights at Reagan National Airport yesterday.

Authorities say a person, who was not identified, made the bomb threat at a ticket counter in Dayton. Airport police took that person to a mental health facility without immediately filing charges.

A spokesperson for the district office of the FBI says they have no reason to believe anyone else was involved in the incident.

Although the threat was received while the plane was in the air, an airport spokesperson says the aircraft was close enough to Reagan National to allow it to proceed.

The threat shut down the airport for approximately 20 minutes.

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The bomb squad was called out to Colorado Springs Airport Tuesday after suspicious items were found in the trunk of a rental car. Bomb technicians evaluated the items and said they were safe.

A worker with Avis Rental found those items while cleaning out a returned vehicle.

Airport officials said the items resembled pipe bombs; they did not say what those items were.

It was the second incident of emergency landing at the Auckland airport right after its takeoff. It is said that a bird strike is the possibility for the landing. It was said that the engine had some problem and the captain came to know about it when the plane had reached mid air. Due to that, the pilot shut off the left engine of the airplane and did and emergency landing at the Auckland airport.

But the reports have confirmed that the pilot had informed the passengers on board about the condition and also informed the passengers that the occurrence of fire was not a mark of any serious problem.

At present there is an inspection going on the engines. The engineers have reported no visible problem.