Looking to offer more and better options for its leisure passengers, Avianca announces its new flight between Bogota, Colombia and the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados in the Lesser Antilles, starting on December 2nd. The new Bogota to Bridgetown direct flights, with flying time of just three hours and 10 minutes, will be operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays using Airbus A318 100-seater a...
BOC Aviation Pte. Ltd. (“BOC Aviation”) is pleased to announce that it has added its first two new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft to its fleet. Both of the wide-body aircraft have been placed on long-term leases to Kenya Airways Ltd. (“Kenya Airways”) following the successful Sale and Leaseback transaction between the two companies. “We are excited to bring...
Fiji Airways, Fiji’s National Airline, has announced plans to commence twice weekly direct services to Singapore from April 5th, 2016. The flights will operate from Nadi International Airport on Tuesdays and Fridays*, with flights times to suit onward connections to India and South East Asia. The airline also announced special launch fare from Nadi to Singapore, starting from F$999** all-inc...
If it is harder to get into an airline seat, does that mean it is harder to get out of the plane in an emergency? Probably not, researchers say. But it turns out no one knows for sure yet. Airline regulators haven't formally studied evacuations under the tighter space conditions that now exist on many airplanes. While even some in Congress have asked if the squeeze of air travel sea...
On St Patrick's Day, American Airlines set round-trip business class fares from several U.S. cities to Beijing and Shanghai at US$0 and US$20 for five hours. Nearly 1200 people who weren't preoccupied with shamrocks and green beer jumped on the fares, about half of them buying immediately and half putting the reservation on a hold, per U.S. federal rules allowing people to cancel a...
Qantas will boost its Perth-Singapore flights to daily and add extra services between Sydney and Hong Kong over summer as the airline continues its Asian expansion with increased fleet utilisation and a flexible schedule designed to cater to peak demand. Launched with five services a week in June, Qantas will add an extra two flights a week on the Singapore-Perth route from December 1 to offer...
The A350-1000’s new engine – the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 – has successfully made its first flight-test aboard Airbus’ dedicated A380 “Flying-Test-Bed” aircraft. The aircraft took off from Airbus’ facilities in Toulouse and performed a flight of 4 hours, 14 mins during which the engine covered a wide range of power settings at altitudes up to 35,000ft. The...
Russia's airline regulator said it was suspending flying certificates for Boeing 737s currently in use in the country until it receives notification that the planes are safe to fly. The statement by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), dated Nov. 4, did not immediately ground flights. A spokesman for Rosaviatsya, Russia's aviation watchdog, which is obliged to comply with IAC s...
Deutsche Lufthansa AG faces its longest-ever strike after flight attendants rejected the airline's latest offer in a long-running dispute over savings efforts aimed at weathering competition from low-cost rivals such as Ryanair. Cabin crew are set to halt work Friday afternoon, the UFO labor union said in a statement Thursday, without specifying the exact time or routes and airports th...
Authorities in Germany have increased the scope of their investigation into Ryanair's relationship with some of its pilots. After the opening of an investigation last May, which involved raids on the apartments of three Ryanair pilots, the inquiry has grown to include about 50 pilots who fly with the airline but who are not officially Ryanair employees, registered instead with the UK agency...
United Airlines released a Nov. 5 letter from United president and CEO Oscar Munoz to company employees indicating Munoz will return in the 2016 first quarter. Munoz was stricken by a heart attack on Oct. 15 and has been on medical leave. On Oct. 19, United announced the appointment of EVP and general counsel Brett Hart as acting CEO. Munoz's letter read: "Dear United team,...
Russian Helicopters, part of State Corporation Rostec, will demonstrate the latest medium multirole Mi-171A2 alongside the light multirole Ansat in VIP configuration and the firefighting version of the Ka-32A11BC at Dubai Airshow on 8-12 November. The Mi-171A2 combines the finest qualities of the Mi-8/17 series with the latest aircraft manufacturing technologies. Key upgrades include a new,...
