Lufthansa has invited the main three unions representing its staff to a round table discussion on job and retirement schemes, as the carrier tries to improve relations with staff after damaging strikes. The airline has asked unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff to a meeting on December 2 to discuss retirement and pension schemes as well as job prospects at Lufthansa. Lufth...
The National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA’s) 2015 Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2015) closed today in Las Vegas, NV, and the event organizers report that the show was once again a resounding success for attendees and exhibitors alike. “This year’s show was enormously successful,” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “In addition...
Travellers could face a Christmas of misery as Cathay Pacific's cabin crew union said it will consider industrial action that will cause mayhem unless they get a pay rise of 6 percent next year. The 7,200-member Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, representing about 80 percent of the airline's flight attendants, will meet airline management on Monday to present the demand, p...
Malindo Air has joined AirAsia X and Malaysia Airlines on the Perth-Kuala Lumpur route after its inaugural flight touched down in the West Australian capital on Thursday. The Boeing 737-800 operating flight OD151 received an ARFF monitor cross salute after landing at Perth Airport at 1440 local time on Thursday. The aircraft, registration 9M-LNW, was on the ground for about an hour before...
Emirates and Etihad have been granted additional traffic rights to Australia following the signing of a new air services agreement. Under the new arrangements announced on Friday Dubai-based Emirates will be able to operate 105 services to Australia each week to the four major gateways of Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, an increase of seven from the previous agreement. Meanwhile, Abu...
A Cathay Pacific Airways (CX) Airbus A330 aircraft, performing flight CX654 from Bangkok to Hong Kong with 110 passengers on board, suffered a hydraulic system failure when the plane was ready to land at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) on Thursday afternoon. The Airbus A330-300, Registration B-LBE performing flight CX654 from Bangkok was on approach to Hong Kong Airport at around 6:30 p.m...
It may be almost a decade or longer before Airbus Group SE debuts an improved version of its little-loved A380 superjumbo jet as the European planemaker tries to convince airlines that there's demand for such a large plane, the chief executive officer of the airliner unit said. Some carriers "don't love the A380" because many have become more conservative in recent years, focu...
Panic gripped pilots' community when Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) grounded three PIA pilots, asking them to undergo a psycho analysis, said sources in CAA here yesterday. Sources said, as per the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) rules, psycho analysis of pilots was mandatory only at the time of induction. A pilot, on condition of not to be named, said three to four co-p...
Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB; Booth C12349) is taking steps to make all of the country's airports more welcoming to business aviation. "We have to admit it was not so user friendly," said Hayato Yamaguchi, a CAB deputy director. "Many business jet users complained that Japan was closed, an inaccessible country for them." That began changing in 2010 when th...
An off-duty JetBlue pilot looking for a free ride back to New York sparked confusion and a brief search at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday morning when he switched flights without airport officials' knowledge, authorities said. The pilot was spotted in the hallway leading to a JetBlue aircraft from Terminal 3's Gate 31B about 6:00 a.m., said LAX police Officer Rob Ped...
An easyJet flight has been evacuated at Manchester airport after a passenger claimed to have explosives in his bag. Passengers were asked to disembark after the plane's captain alerted police to the potential threat. Greater Manchester Police confirmed that the EZY1893 flight, bound for Marrakech, Morocco, was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. as security checks were carried out. Two men we...
Flights not only to and from Egypt, but also to several other countries could be canceled due to terrorist threats, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. During a press conference after the APEC Summit in Manila, Medvedev said: "I cannot exclude that we may consider this issue in some cases, I mean the issue concerning flights to other countries. But...
