Aeroflot, Russia's biggest carrier, is trying to get out of an agreement to buy Dreamliners from Boeing Co. as it seeks planes and routes from a debt-saddled airline and the market struggles in recession. "We're trying to exit the deal," Chief Executive Officer Vitaly Savelyev said in an interview on Rossiya 24 television. "Boeing didn't deliver them on time and we do...
British Airways will be offering a warm welcome to even more customers in a new look Heathrow Terminal 3 with the start of long-haul flights. A new check-in area has been created for customers during the last few months including a dedicated area for premium customers to use. The new additions to British Airways’ Terminal 3 schedule will include flights to Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas, De...
Gulfstream has added 40 flights and 85 flight hours to the G500 test campaign in the last two months, completing initial handling qualities tests and an attitude recovery stall system. The first of four G500 test aircraft now has flown 45 flights and logged 100 flight hours, including one 5h22min mission, altitudes up to 38,500ft and speeds up to Mach 0.80, Gulfstream says. The pace of testi...
Mitsubishi Aircraft hopes the first flight later this month of Japan's first small passenger plane in 50 years will drive interest among prospective customers, especially in Europe, where it has yet to win any buyers. The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries subsidiary is building the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), with just under 100 seats, taking on a market served by Bombardier and Embraer. Th...
Delta Air Lines Inc., known for snapping up bargain-priced single-aisle planes, is now shopping for used larger, long-haul jets. A glut of wide-body models coming off leases is creating an "aircraft bubble," Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson said Wednesday. While no deal is imminent, he said Delta repeatedly gets offers to add twin-aisle jetliners such as Boeing Co.'s...
Air China's subsidiary Shandong Airlines (SC) predicted that the net profit for the first three quarters is expected to increase by 66.04%-102.94% year on year, according to the airlin's earning forecast issued yesterday evening. The Jinan-based carrier forecast its net income for the third quarter of 2015 would reach between 359.51-487.59 million yuan. The net profit from Jan...
Air France said on Wednesday that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls' industrial relations adviser was taking over as head of human resources at the airline as conflict over planned cost and job cuts rages between management and pilots. Current HR head Xavier Broseta, who had his shirt ripped off as angry employees hounded him out of a meeting about job losses last week, will take up a...
A Sky Airline Airbus A319-100, registration CC-AIC performing flight H2-112 from Santiago to Copiapo (Chile) with 137 passengers, was climbing out of Santiago's runway 35R when engine access doors of the left hand engine (CFM56) opened and separated from the aircraft. The crew stopped the climb at FL150 and returned to Santiago for a safe landing on runway 35L about 25 minutes after depar...
Russian officials and State Duma deputies can no longer fly with international airlines on business trips, under an amendment to a presidential decree published Wednesday. From now on, official trips can only use Russian carriers or the airlines of other members of the Eurasian Economic Union, which comprises Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Officials can only dodge the patr...
When JetBlue recently introduced checked baggage fees, it gave the title of Only Large U.S. Airline With Free Checked Bags to Southwest. (I just made that title up, but Southwest is very proud of the distinction.) But JetBlue might have a way to make it up to passengers. On Wednesday, the carrier announced progress in making free in-flight Wi-Fi -- the carrier calls its service Fly-Fi ...
An Air France flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Johannesburg, South Africa was forced to declare an emergency and turn around 45 minutes into its journey, after crew discovered that two passengers were missing. Crew onboard the Boeing A380 triggered the security alert after realising that the passenger list and baggage did not match - with four bags loaded without their o...
Passengers have told of their panic after a Monarch Airlines holiday flight travelling from Madeira, Portugal, to Birmingham was intercepted by a French fighter jet. The fighter jet flew so close to the plane, passengers said they could see the pilot in the other cockpit. The Monarch flight ZB983 reportedly lost communications over French airspace, and the jet was sent to inte...
