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South African Airways introduce new lounge

South African Airways has opened its new VIA lounge in the domestic departure area of OR Tambo International Airport. The lounge features a seating area, dining, an art gallery, an area for children to play, runway views and high speed internet, offering services for both relaxing and working....

12 people killed in Mi-8 helicopter crash in Eastern Siberia — prosecutors

Twelve people are believed to be dead after the Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Eastern Siberia, on Friday, a senior aide to local transport prosecutor has said. The Yeniseysk transport prosecutors have launched an investigation into the accident, Oksana Gorbunova told TA...

Celestian angels: AZAL flight attendants

As we promised - we are showing you much more of what we have learned about AZAL celestial angels. Do you have any idea what a flight attendant has to know? How they are trained? AZAL future flight attendants have practice on modern simulators that mimic the cabin and passengers. Cabin crew must be able to provide first aid:measure the pressure Make a cardiac massage...

Air Partner signs agreement with Air Cargo Integrators

Air Partner’s Freight division has signed a memorandum of understanding with Air Cargo Integrators (ACI) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop their freight charter and global air freight products. Under the terms of the deal, Air Partner Freight has appointed ACI as its official freight sales and marketing representative in the vital Middle East hub of the UAE in order to develop...

Sharjah Aviation Services selects Cargo Flash management system

Sharjah Aviation Services has selected Cargo Flash Info tech’s Cargo Flash nGen-CMS as its warehouse and management suite, to be installed in the first half of 2016. The handling agent at Sharjah International Airport says nGen-CMS will significantly improve processes and services and improve transparency. It says the management suite from Cargo Flash will provide real-time information ab...

TAP and Ethiopian Airlines start codeshare services

TAP, Portugal’s leading airline and Ethiopian Airlines, the largest African airline, both Members of Star Alliance, have started code-share services between Portugal and Ethiopia as of November 24, 2015. These flights are made available for bookings through both carriers own websites – at www.flytap.com and www.flyethiopian.com – as well as via the worldwide reservations systems....

United Offers Pilots 13% Raise in Bid to Find Labor Peace

United Continental Holdings Inc., seeking labor peace five years after the airline's creation in a merger, is offering pilots a raise in a proposed contract that would put them at or near the top of the U.S. industry's pay scale, two people briefed on the plan said. The tentative deal calls for a 13 percent increase in 2016, followed by annual boosts of 3 percent and 2 percent, said the...

French carriers resume Mali flights following Bamako attack

Air France (AF, Paris CDG) and Aigle Azur (ZI, Paris Orly) have resumed scheduled services to Bamako following an Islamist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel last week which killed twenty-two people including six Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) crew that had been staying there. Speaking to The Telegraph, a Malian hotel source, who was present when the attack occurred, said the gunm...

Norwegian Becomes First Airline to Offer Live TV on European Flights

Low-cost airline Norwegian became the first airline to offer live TV on board European flights. Passengers using Norwegian’s free inflight WiFi can now watch Bloomberg Television and Norway’s TV 2 News live on the airline’s fleet of 87 WiFi equipped aircraft. The new service was launched today on a flight from Oslo to Berlin and will be available on flights fr...

Luxair DH8D at Luxembourg on Nov. 25, 2015, Dropped Part of Engine Cowling

A Luxair de Havilland Dash 8-400, registration LX-LGE performing flight LG-4605 from Luxembourg (Luxembourg) to London City, EN (UK), completed a seemingly uneventful flight with a safe landing in London City. The airline confirmed that a post flight inspection revealed a panel, size about 1 square meter, was missing from the left hand engine's (PW150) cowling. The panel separated during de...

JetBlue Shakes Up Pilot Hiring by Training Them From Scratch

JetBlue Airways Corp., breaking with historical practices at U.S. airlines, plans to recruit potential pilots with no flight experience and provide its own training under a proposal awaiting approval from federal regulators. The program would be the first of its kind in the U.S. and would be similar to those used by some European and Asian carriers. Candidates still would have to meet U.S. requ...

Cargolux pilots: Strike action can no longer be avoided

Luxembourg-based Cargolux pilots, represented by the ALPL and the LCGB unions, are ready to take industrial action if a new collective agreement cannot be reached by Nov. 30, when the current contract expires. Strike action could start as early as December. Discussions on a new labor contract between the pilot unions and the Luxemburg-based cargo carrier have been ongoing since Septem...

Aeroflot Group Passenger Traffic Up 13.7% in 10M 2015

Aeroflot PJSC (Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) announces operating results for Aeroflot Group («the Group») and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines («the Company») for October and ten months of 2015. The operating results of Aeroflot Group and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines for October and ten months of 2015 were significantly influenced by the Group’...

Ryanair Concludes 5 Year Pay Deals At All 76 Pilot Bases

Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, today (25 Nov) held its annual European Works Council (EWC) meeting in Dublin where it announced that it had concluded 5 year pay agreements with all 76 of its pilot bases across Europe, and has now commenced a similar process with its cabin crew, after its 2 largest bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports voted (in secret ballot) to accept 5 year de...

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