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Passengers Don’t Make Rational Judgments, Which is Good News for Branding Experts

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has found that happy airline passengers are hard to coe by, and that pleased passengers may not reward the bottom line, but passengers’ perceptions can be influenced by brand. Passengers reward airlines for offering bare-minimum passenger e...

Air France Offers Early Star Wars Screening to Lure U.S. Passengers

Air France is offering U.S. Star Wars fans a unique flight-and-film package to see the Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in a special screening on December 16, two days before its official US release. Air France has set up a dedicated microsite where Star Wars fans can take advantage of the...

Egyptian rescue team at scene of plane crash: aviation ministry

Egyptian search and rescue teams have found the site of the crashed Russian passenger plane in the Hassana area, south of Arish, Sinai, the civilian aviation ministry said on Saturday. The plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet when it vanished from radar screens, the ministry said in a statement.

Spring Airlines Launches Japanese Hotel Brand

Chinese low-cost carrier Spring Airlines has entered the Japanese hotel sector. The Shanghai-based company unveiled its new Spring Sunny Hotel brand on October 28, as part of a joint venture with Sun Frontier Fudousan, a Japanese real estate management company. The first Spring Sunny Hotel is expected to launch in Nagoya in the first half of 2016. Longer term plans include the opening o...

Draft civil aviation policy calls for 2% cess on major routes from January

If the Draft Civil Aviation Policy, 2015, takes off in its original form, then fliers on major domestic routes will have to start paying 2% more on their fares as regional connectivity fund (RCF) charge from January 1, 2016. The smaller regional and underserved routes, known as Category IIA and Category III sectors, will be exempt from this levy. Another major highlight for the domestic air...

Aviation expert discusses plane that caught fire

Multiple people were injured after fire on rumway at Fort Lauderdale airport The plane was expected to be removed from the runway Thursday night. News4Jax spoke with an aviation expert, who said the amount of injuries is to be expected in a plane fire like that. Firefighters were at the scene of the plane fire within two minutes fortunately just in time to rescue everyone on board, many o...

Passenger seated on plane next to stranger who looks exactly like him

Have you ever wanted a twin? This man met the next best thing, when he sat next to a stranger who looked exactly like him on a flight. The ginger-bearded man met his match met his match, and was delighted to meet someone who looked exactly like him. They took a grinning selfie together on the flight, which was posted on social media by the friend of our hero's wife. She tweeted:...

United Airlines halts airport outsourcing until 2017

United Airlines on Friday promised it would not outsource more jobs in baggage handling or customer service at least until 2017, aiming to reduce uncertainty for workers after announcing about 1,150 job cuts in February, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The decision resulted from employee feedback on how to improve the airline, solicited in September when Oscar Munoz became chief...

Russian airliner crashes in central Sinai - Egyptian PM

A Russian airliner has crashed in central Sinai with more than 200 people on board, the office of Egypt's prime minister has confirmed. The Airbus A-321 had just taken off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on its way to the Russian city of St Petersburg. There were conflicting reports about the fate of the plane, some suggesting it had disappeared over Cyprus. Most of the pa...

Canada Said to Consult Obama Before Opening Fighter-Jet Bidding

Incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will consult U.S. President Barack Obama before restarting a process to replace Canada’s aging fleet of combat jets, in a bid to head off damage to relations between the two countries, according to an official familiar with the plans. Trudeau’s Liberals campaigned on abandoning Canada’s plans to buy Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35...

Russian plane leaves Egypt’s airspace before disappearing from radars near Larnaca

The Russian passenger plane has left Egypt’s airspace before disappearing from radars near Cyprus’ Larnaca, Sky News Arabia TV channel reported on Saturday. The plane that took off from the Sharm el-Shaikh airport in the morning was carrying 212 people. It was earlier reported that the plane crashed in the central part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian Embassy&rsq...

Lufthansa profits increase but Cargo makes a loss

Lufthansa Group has seen profit increase by 262.7 per cent to 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) helped by selling its stake in JetBlue, the Cargo division making a loss in the third quarter. The Group says 500 million euros of the 1.7 billion euros profit came from selling its equity stake in JetBlue in the first half of 2015. Revenue for the whole airline in the first nine months of 2015 increa...

Norwegian appoints Jan de Rijk as RFS

Norwegian Cargo has appointed Jan de Rijk Logistics as its road feeder service partner to extend its delivery network to more than 50 airports across Europe. The carrier says freight Forwarders will be able to take advantage of its expanding network between London and the US. It says shipments arriving in London from the US will be able to make onward connections t...

India Plans Flight Tax To Fund Travel Boost

India plans to impose a 2 percent levy on most domestic and international airline tickets, raising funds to improve regional air travel infrastructure as part of a proposal to get more Indians flying. Releasing the government's draft aviation policy, civil aviation secretary R.N. Choubey said the tax may raise about INR15 billion rupees (USD$230 million). Funds will go towards reopening hun...

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