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Fiji Airways to upgrade narrow-body fleet with Boeing 737 MAX 8s from 2018

Lufthansa: VC does not meet its responsibility as a collective bargaining partner

The pilot’s union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) called for strike action on 23 November 2016 from 00:01 to 23:59 (local times). Lufthansa short and long-haul flights departing from Germany are affected. This call for strike is not the right way. Several times, Lufthansa offered the VC a media...

Emirates crash investigation to take up to three years - regulator

The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on Aug. 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said on Sunday. The crash was the first major accident in Emirates' more-th...

A4E urges the British Government to boost UK GDP by abolishing Air Passenger Duty

Highest aviation tax worldwide is damaging UK competitiveness. -Abolishing APD would boost UK GDP by 1.7% and create 61,000 new jobs by 2020, according to PwC. Countries which have scrapped aviation taxes have seen an immediate boost to GDP and tourism. Airlines for Europe (A4E) members Carolyn McCall (easyJet), Willie Walsh (IAG) and Michael O’Leary...

Emirates Says Rolls-Royce A380 Engines Not Up to Agreed Standard

Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, said it’s unhappy with performance shortfalls afflicting $6.1 billion’s worth of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines ordered to power a batch of 50 Airbus Group SE A380 superjumbos. Feedback on the Trent 900 powerplants indicates “technical issues” that need to be resolved before the first plane is delivered to Emirates...

Peach Aviation orders 10 A320neo and three A320ceo

Japan’s Peach Aviation has signed a firm order with Airbus for the purchase of 10 A320neo and three A320ceo. The order was announced at a signing ceremony in Tokyo, attended by Shinichi Inoue, Managing Director and CEO, Peach Aviation and Fabrice Brégier, Airbus President and CEO. The newly-ordered aircraft will join an existing A320 Family fleet at Peach currently comp...

Welcome to the Airbus A350-900

On 19 December 2016, the Lufthansa Group will receive its first A350-900, which is the most modern long haul aircraft worldwide and which will be based at Lufthansa’s Munich Hub. The first regular commercial flight will be from Munich to Delhi on 10 February 2017. Tickets are available now. “We are looking forward to welcoming our first A350-900 shortly before Christmas. And already in...

Brazil approves Qatar Airways’ stake purchase in Chile-based Latam Airlines

Latam Airlines has announced that Brazil’s competition regulator Cade has given the green light for Qatar Airways to purchase a stake in the Chile-headquartered regional carrier. Qatar Airways in July agreed to acquire up to 10 per cent of Latam’s total shares following a capital increase of US$613 million, through the issuance of new shares at $10 per share. Latam said it will n...

EasyJet campaigned hard against Brexit

EasyJet, the UK’s biggest budget airline by sales, has suffered from its first sharp fall in annual profits in six years and signalled earnings will remain under pressure from Britain's decision to leave the EU for some time to come. The airline has been grappling with a combination of economic uncertainty following June’s shock referendum result, a string of terrorists att...

Rolls-Royce Wins Selectcare Order From Icelandair

Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide SelectCare services for RB211 engines that power 28 Icelandair aircraft. The order continues to develop the close and highly successful relationship between Icelandair and Rolls-Royce, which reaches its 60th anniversary next year. SelectCare is an innovative service, launched earlier this year, which allows customers to tailor the services they require...

Austrian Airlines Again Looking to Hire 100 New Pilots in 2017

· A total of 145 new pilots were hired in 2016 – All of them have completed their training · In 2017 Austrian Airlines is again looking on the marketplace to recruit pilots without any flight experience – Training will take place in the “European Flight Academy”, the Lufthansa Group flight school · Interested persons can submit applications at w...

Fly KISS gets second phase of start-up underway

One of the five new sectors started this week by Fly KISS, all of which were domestic, connected Lille with Brest. The airport in the French Flanders region will also be connected to Nice by the French regional airline start-up. Located in the Auvergne region of France, Clermont-Ferrand was connected to Brest, Strasbourg and London Luton last week; this week French regional airline Fly KISS...

World’s best performing airline hits turbulence as results disappoint

Thai Airways expects a profit in the fourth quarter, after three straight years of losses, due to lower fuel costs and as more people travel during the holiday season, said the chief financial officer, Narongchai Wongthanavimok. While Thai Airways does not plan to introduce new routes, it aims to increase the frequency of its existing profitable flights in major cities in Europe and South East...

airBaltic Announces World Debut of CS300

The Latvian airline airBaltic will start Bombardier CS300 commercial operations on December 14, 2016 on its route linking Riga with Amsterdam. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “CS300 is a great aircraft, and a great improvement for our customers this Christmas. We are delighted to announce that the historic first airBaltic commercial flight with Bombardier CS300 will li...

Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus sign MoU to develop A380 MRO Services in Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a new A380 MRO Services offering. With this partnership Airbus and Etihad Airways Engineering will combine their respective skills to offer the market a value-adding MRO service solution for worldwide A380 operators, starting in 2017. The partnership aims to establish A380...

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