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 limited bookings available before December 10. The film will be shown in two screenings at Luc B...
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.
Air Canada will launch direct flights between Toronto and Seoul next year, using its new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The trans-Pacific route will commence on June 17, 2016, operating daily. Flights will depart Toronto's Pearson International Airport at 1:35 p.m. and arrive at Seoul's Incheon International Airport at 4:20 p.m. the following day. The return service will then leave the...
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...
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) has been banned from adding new flights and routes for the second time, for nearly 40 percent of flights leaving the airport were delayed in September. Only 64.56 percent of departures from the Shanghai Pudong airport left on time in September, ranking second from the bottom among 48 Chinese major airports, according to figures from the Civil Avi...
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...
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...
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 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...
Boeing Co is likely to broadly match European rival Airbus SA in notching up production of single-aisle aircraft to 60 a month, but the timing of Boeing's move remains uncertain, according to a person familiar with the situation. Airbus said on Friday it would lift monthly output of its top-selling A320 to 60 in mid-2019, a 20 percent jump over its prior target of 50, and a move...
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...
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...
China Minsheng Investment Corp., one of China’s largest private investment funds, said it’s planning to enter the North American market as it grows its aviation business. Shanghai-based CMI is in talks to acquire a private-jet company located in the western part of the U.S., the company’s vice president Kong Linshan said in an interview Friday in Singapore. Kong declined to na...
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...
Abu Dhabi International Airport has handled over two million passengers in each of the three months of July, August and September, as the capital city becomes important travel hub in the region. "September was another very busy month for the Abu Dhabi International Airport and the third consecutive month in which ADIA welcomed over two million passengers," said Engr. Ahmad Al Haddabi,...
Russian Helicopters (part of State Corporation Rostec) is taking part in Havana International Fair (FIHAV-2015), where it will showcase its helicopter range - both current commercial models that operators from diverse countries are already familiar with and upcoming commercial helicopters. FIHAV-2015 will be held in Havana, Cuba, from 2-7 November 2015. Russian Helicopters' exhibition can be f...
ITP has opened a new representative office in Singapore with the aim of strengthening its presence in the MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) market in Asia Pacific. ITP has an established portfolio of clients in the region, including airlines like Cebu Pacific, Lion Air, Asian Wings and Yangon Airways. From its new office in Singapore, the company will have a closer inte...
Commercial aircraft market robust with book-to-bill above 1 Single-aisle aircraft production rate to increase to 60/month in mid-2019 Board of Directors approves € 1 billion share buyback for completion by mid-2016** Airbus Group SE (stock exchange symbol: AIR) reported strong nine-month results and confirmed its 2015 guidance. “We again increased revenues, profitabil...
JAL Group (JAL) today announced the consolidated financial results for the first six months of the fiscal year of 2015 – the period from April 1 to September 30, 2015. For the details, please refer to attached [Consolidated Financial Results for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2015]. During the reporting period (hereinafter referred to as the “second quarter”), the Jap...
An AgustaWestland AW609 tiltrotor prototype crashed in Italy this morning while on a routine test flight, killing both crewmembers. The aircraft went down outside Santhia in Vercelli province. Italy’s National Agency for Flight Safety (ANSV) is investigating. Unconfirmed Italian press reports indicate that one of the engines was on fire before the crash. In a writte...
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...
