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Frontier Airlines flight F9-111 between San Juan and Orlando was forced to divert to Miami (MIA) on Saturday evening after several onboard fell ill. On December 31, the Airbus A321-200, registered N702FR, took off from San Juan in Puerto Rico for Orlando. Around two hours into the flight, while passing over the Bahamas, the flight deck crew requested a diversion to nearby Miami International Airport citing illness onboard. F9-111 landed safely on Runway 09 at 18:31 EST, 17 minutes after requesting the diversion, and was met by Miami-Dade’s Fire Rescue Team. Eight crew members and one passenger reported dizziness and were treated by paramedics on the scene before being moved to local hospitals. No details about the cause of the sudden illness have been released at the time of publication. Frontier Airlines has been approached for further information.<br/>

Uganda Airlines is reactivating plans to start flights to Heathrow, after getting an indication from authorities in the United Kingdom that it can operate the service through an intermediate airport. The Ugandan carrier has been given intermediate airports in six countries in Africa and Europe, whose airports have a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority security clearance. These are Kenya, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Tunisia and Turkey. This follows the carrier’s application for services to the UK receiving preliminary approval, while it would take the better part of two years for the UKCAA to complete its security vetting of Entebbe International Airport.“ At the airline level, we are cleared,” said Uganda Airlines CE Jenifer Bamuturaki. “In principle, we have two options – to wait until Entebbe International Airport has gone through a security audit by the UKCAA so that we can fly direct from there, or go through a third country whose airport already has the necessary clearances.”She added that they have held internal meetings to see which of the third-country options suits their operations best and were now activating the arrangements they had previously made on the ground in the UK for a possible launch of services during the summer of 2023.“We now have to confirm with them and set up arrangements in line with our cargo designation. On the ground, we had already set up at the airport and what is left is for us to set up a marketing office and reactivate the slots we were initially allocated,” Bamuturaki said.<br/>

Passengers who were involved in the ugly fight that broke out on the Thai Smile Airways flight from Bangkok to Kolkata could face another action after a complaint was filed against them. Indian aviation authorities are planning to recommend putting passengers, who were involved in a recent onboard brawl, on a no-fly list, reported news agency ANI, citing a top official of the Indian aviation authority on Monday. "We are in touch with the local police and we are waiting for the police investigation report after which we can take a decision or recommend them to put on the fly list," a top official of the Indian aviation authority told ANI. In 2017, the government of India formed a committee called The National No Fly List, which is compiled and maintained by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) based on inputs from airlines. The no-fly list regulates the behavior of passengers on scheduled and non-scheduled flights only.<br/>