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Air France stewards to go on strike from July 27

DGCA sacks flight safety chief of Air Pegasus, suspends 5 pilots

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sacked the flight safety chief of Air Pegasus from his post and suspended five pilots after a safety audit of the Bangalore-based regional carrier revealed serious safety violations. The airline has been warned of strict action in case of any f...

airBaltic – No. 1 Airline in Estonia

The Latvian airline airBaltic for the second month in a row became No. 1 airline in Estonia. In May, 2016 airBaltic has achieved +32% growth, compared to the same period last year, and served 32 307 passengers travelling to and from Estonia. As previously reported, in April 2016 for the first tim...

Air France pilots union calls for labour strike during Euro 2016

Air France’s pilot unions have called on members to strike during the first week of the Euro 2016 soccer championship in a protest over pay. The unions said in a joint statement they planned to strike from June 11 until June 14 and might schedule further strikes a few days later if necessary. The soccer tournament begins in Paris on June 10 and will run until July 10. The strike c...

4 Companies Promising Supersonic Air Travel

It’s easy to find many reasons not to build a supersonic airplane. They’re loud — the sonic booms generated by the famed, Mach 2-capable Concorde were notorious, and limited its ability to fly over land. They’re thirsty, too, requiring ridiculous amounts of fuel for even the most modest trips. They require ultra-long runways to generate enough lift for takeoff, and they&rsq...

Airlines Expect Low Oil Prices Will End in About Three Years

Airlines expect the low oil prices that have been propping up the industry will end in about three years, just in time for new fuel-efficient planes to enter service, according to the top executives of jetmaker Airbus Group SE and lessor AerCap Holdings NV. “Take the A320neo, the new Airbus product. We have already leased over 100 of those airplanes and we haven’t even taken deliver...

Ryanair Calls On EU To Protect Overflights And Reduce Travel Disruption

Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, 1 June called again on the European Commission to take action to prevent the skies over Europe being closed once more by French ATC unions, who have announced strike action for tomorrow, June 2nd, with three more days of strikes planned this weekend. Ryanair regrets that it has been forced to cancel 75 flights on Thursday (2 June), to/from an...

First Blue Islands aircraft in Flybe livery

In preparation for its new Flybe franchise taking off on 6 June, the first Blue Islands aircraft to sport the distinctive purple Flybe livery has today (31 May 2016) flown into Jersey Airport completing the first stage of the airline’s repainting programme. Rob Veron explained “We’re excited to see the first of our ATRs in its new Flybe livery. This marks a significant mom...

Airbus Helicopters advances Clean Sky 2 high-speed efficient rotorcraft demonstrator

Airbus Helicopters earlier this year passed an important milestone in the development of the high-speed, compound helicopter demonstrator currently being built as part of the Clean Sky 2 European research programme. A mockup of the breakthrough airframe design has just undergone windtunnel testing in an Airbus facility. The tests proved the viability of the chosen design in terms of efficiency, su...

Misread Israeli toy label prompts bomb scare on Greek plane

An Aegean Airlines plane was temporarily held up at Cyprus’ Larnaca airport after a cleaner found a box with a doll from Israel and took the inscription on the label for a bomb threat. The Greek airline’s cleaning staff found a box labeled “booba” on Tuesday while the plane was in Cyprus before setting off for Tel Aviv. The word means “doll”&nb...

EgyptAir crash pressuring Airbus to find alternatives to black boxes

The challenges that accident investigators are facing locating crash recorders from EgyptAir Flight 804 almost two weeks after the plane went down are reinforcing efforts by Airbus to find alternative ways to tap crucial flight data from lost aircraft. “This reinforces our overall approach to find solutions to get data out of accidents as soon as possible,” said Charles Champion, Ex...

Teenage stowaway found in cargo hold of Emirates flight from China to Dubai

A teenage boy sneaked into the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger plane in China and made it all the way to Dubai before being apprehended, the airline and Chinese media said Tuesday. The Dubai-based airline, the Middle East's biggest, said the stowaway was found in the cargo hold of Flight EK303 from Shanghai on Friday, May 27. "We are cooperating fully with authorities in Dubai a...

easyJet takes delivery of new, more efficient 186 seat A320

easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has taken delivery of its new ‘Spaceflex’ 186 seat A320 aircraft. This new aircraft will not only deliver cost per seat saving when compared to easyJet’s existing 180 seat A320’s but will also support easyJet’s target to reduce its carbon emissions per passenger kilometre by 8% by 2020 compared to 2013. It includes a...

Daallo Airlines blast: Somalia sentences two to life in prison

A military court in Somalia has sentenced two men to life in prison for masterminding a bomb attack on a Daallo Airlines passenger plane in February. Eight other people, including a woman, were sentenced to between six months and four years in prison. The blast, shortly after take-off from Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killed the bomber and left a hole in the plane's fuse...

LATAM Airlines to suspend Venezuela flights

Latin America's largest airline, Chile-based LATAM Airlines, said on Monday it would suspend its flights to Venezuela due to the "economic scenario", following a similar decision by Lufthansa over the weekend. "Owing to the current complex macroeconomic scenario in the region, LATAM Airlines has announced adjustments to its destination network... it will suspend temporarily a...

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Korean Air places landmark order for 103 Boeing aircraft

Boeing and Korean Air announced that the carrier has finalized a purchase agreement for 103 aircraft spanning Boeing’s widebody and single‑aisle families. The deal includes 20 777‑9, 25 787...