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Celestial angels: Secrets of AZAL flight attendants

Flight attendant job is taken as a romantic one, but just few people know what is required in order to become a "celestial angel" - a lot of patience, hard work and physical strength. During 50skyshades visit to Baku we were honoured to find out some secrets, so we will try to...

LATAM Defers Aircraft Deliveries in Bid to Save US$3 Billion

Following a third quarter net loss of US$113.3 million exacerbated by a slowing Brazilian economy, LATAM Airlines Group has announced plans to trim up to US$3 billion in fleet capital expenditure for the period 2016 to 2018. LATAM says it has already managed to save US$1.8 billion through the d...

Aided by a Turnaround in Fortunes, SpiceJet in Talks to Buy 150 Planes

Emboldened by a quick turnaround in fortunes under its new promoters, budget airline SpiceJet has initiated talks with aircraft manufacturers to place orders for at least 150 planes, said Ajay Singh, chairman of India's fourth largest carrier. "It will be a significant sized order. And it will be placed soon," Singh told ETin an interview recently. SpiceJet is in talks to...

2 Air France Flights Diverted Due to Bomb Threats

Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted due to bomb threats, officials said. Both flights landed safely Tuesday night. Flight 65, en route from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb threat was called in from the ground, a U.S. government official said. The official did not know if anyone was arrested and was not aware of...

Air Canada Welcomes Landmark Agreement with its Flight Attendants

Air Canada welcomes confirmation by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representing approximately 6,500 flight attendants at Air Canada and 700 at Air Canada rouge, that its members have ratified an agreement on collective agreement terms for ten years. “This ten-year landmark agreement with CUPE is a historic development which will help Air Canada achieve its gl...

Aero medical services 'in need of urgent treatment'

Sean Culligan, of Phoenix Aviation Malta (PAM), was at AfBAA highlighting the fact that Africa needs to address its aero-medical solutions. To stress the difficulties PAM faces in the region, he offered an insight into a conversation he had with one director of civil aviation in a West African country about the fate of a patient. “I said, ‘Sir, if this patient is not brought ou...

Virgin reaffirms guidance for return to profitability in 2015/16

Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says the airline group is on track to return to profitability in the current financial year, reaffirming previous guidance. Borghetti told shareholders at the company’s annual general meeting in Brisbane on Wednesday that Virgin was continuing to gain more higher-yielding customers and was “well advanced in reaching our goal of 30 per...

HAE acquires South Africa’s Groupair

UK air cargo services provider HAE says it bought Groupair in South Africa – but the firm has not revealed any financial terms of the deal. Groupair is a neutral consolidator providing air, sea, road and courier services. HAE says that Groupair is able to assist customers with requirements for air, sea and road freight in the South or Sub-Saharan Africa region. On Gro...

UAE’s top aviation authority urges preservation of European air deals ahead of airline access talks

The UAE’s top aviation authority on Tuesday stressed the need to preserve bilateral air deals in Europe while discussions over a broader aviation package are under way. The European Commission is set to ask member states for a mandate to initiate airline access talks with Arabian Gulf countries when it presents an aviation package on December 2. Gulf carriers fear pressure from some ri...

Study: Norwegian Is Most Fuel Efficient Transatlantic Carrier

Boeing 787 operator Norwegian Air Shuttle was the most fuel efficient airline of the top 20 carriers flying routes between Europe and North America in 2014, according to a new study. British Airways was the least fuel efficient, followed closely by Lufthansa and SAS. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) issued its “Transatlantic Airline Fuel Efficiency Ranking” o...

Monaco's Monacair orders H130s for Nice scheduled flights

Monacair (Monte Carlo) has signed a firm order agreement with Airbus Helicopters (Marseilles) for six H130s the first of which is due or delivery next month with the remainder to be phased in through to May 2016. The H130 comes from the Ecureuil family of light helicopters and accommodates one pilot and up to six passengers. The helicopters will be the Monégasque operator's first...

Two Airport Staff Detained Over Russian Air Crash

Egyptian authorities have detained two employees of Sharm el-Sheikh airport for questioning in connection with the downing of the Russian jet on October 31 that killed all 224 people on board. "Seventeen people are being held, two of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm el-Sheikh airport," said a security official who declined to be named. An...

Easyjet places $3.6b Airbus order as profits surge

British no-frills airline Easyjet on Tuesday ordered 36 Airbus A320 jets worth $3.8 billion (Dh13.95 billion) at catalogue prices, after posting record annual profits on keen demand. Easyjet said in a results statement it will purchase 30 next-generation fuel-efficient A320neo aircraft, converting options that had been announced back in 2013, and has added another six firm orders for current-ge...

Russia confirms terrorism downed Sinai aircraft

FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov has confirmed to Russian president Vladimir Putin that an “act of terror” brought down a Russian A321 airliner in Egypt last month. The Russian security chief said “traces of foreign explosives” were found amid debris from the Airbus plane. A branch of so-called Islamic State said it downed the plane. Nearly all of the 224 people kille...

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