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Lufthansa says looking to bring Brussels Airlines into Eurowings

Lufthansa  is working on bringing part-owned Brussels Airlines into its low-cost airline Eurowings and will decide by the end of August whether to exercise a call option to allow for a full takeover, it said on Wednesday. Lufthansa is back on the acquisition trail with a view to expanding Eu...

Estonia – Champion of Growth for airBaltic

The Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved +24% growth in passengers travelling to and from Estonia in March 2016. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “Estonia is a champion in our Horizon2021 plan. Those travelling to and from Tallinn have welcomed our new direct flights pa...

Qantas and Vietnam Airlines to invest $181.5m in Jetstar Pacific

Qantas and Vietnam Airlines have unveiled plans to invest $US139 million ($181.5 million) to more than double the size of Vietnamese low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific's fleet to 30 aircraft over the next four years. Qantas, as the owner of a 30 per cent stake, will provide $US42 million to Jetstar Pacific over a number of tranches between now and 2020 with Vietnam Airlines responsible for th...

A New Start Up Company Wants To Prevent Plane and Drone Collisions

A recent study makes it seem clear that drones and airplanes are on a collision course—unless SkySafe has anything to say about it. The new startup company has technology that can stop a drone in its flight path and divert it before it collides with a commercial plane, The Verge reported. SkySafe, which bills itself as in the drone protection business, doesn't just alert pilots to nea...

Lufthansa Drops Flights as Airport Workers Plan Strike Wednesday

Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air Berlin Plc are scrapping more than 900 flights this week as a strike by public-services workers at German airports on Wednesday hobbles operations in Frankfurt, Munich and Cologne. Lufthansa, Europe’s third-biggest airline, is eliminating 895 flights, or 60 percent of the the 1,500 services it had scheduled for Wednesday, the German carrier said Tuesday in a...

Sacked worker gets ultimate revenge

Video reportedly to show an angry former airport worker exacting revenge on $6.6m jet. THIS is the incredible moment that a Russian plane is gutted by a large excavator. It has been widely rumoured that the UTair aeroplane was destroyed by an irate airport worker. The story circulated online that after being fired from his job, the employee decided to smash up the Yak-40 in revenge. Bu...

Danger in the cockpit: FAA records show pilots fly drunk, engage in criminal activity

An American Airlines pilot flunked two sobriety tests before a 7 a.m. flight out of Detroit. An Alaska Airlines pilot flew a commercial plane from California to Oregon and back again, all while allegedly drunk. Yet another pilot, from United, allegedly moonlighted as a pimp, running half a dozen brothels out of apartments in Houston, according to authorities. The cases are enough to frighten th...

Boeing Wins $851 Million Single-Aisle Jets Order From Xiamen Air

Xiamen Airlines Co., a unit of China Southern Airlines Co., ordered 10 single-aisle jets worth about $851 million from Boeing Co. as the carrier expands to meet demand. The company, based in the southern Fujian province, will buy 10 737-800 models valued at July 2014 prices, the parent said in a Shanghai exchange statement Tuesday. The prices are before discounts that are typical in the industr...

airBaltic Awarded for Exceptional Performance

The Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved exceptional performance and was recognised as a leading operator of Q400NextGen aircraft by Bombardier. Martin Sedlacky, Chief Operations Officer of airBaltic: “Our customers can rely on a consistently punctual service, and we achieved the best on-time performance globally for two years running in 2014 and 2015. This requires robust operations,...

Saudi Arabian Airlines planning own IPO

Airline chief Saleh Al Jasser says paperwork for a 30% listing of the cargo unit is being finalised. Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation, the holding company of Saudi Arabian Airlines, is planning an initial public offering of the state-owned carrier, the airline’s director-general Saleh Al Jasser said on Monday. The listing is part of a five-year strategy to make the airline, also know...

Airline industry steps up baggage handling performance says SITA

The airline industry is celebrating its best ever performance for successfully handling baggage according to a report issued by SITA this morning. According to the report, the rate of mishandled bags was 6.5 bags per thousand passengers in 2015, down 10.5% from the previous year and less than half the rate in 2003. “This improvement comes despite an 85% rise in passenger numbers since...

Lufthansa strike to impact 'tens of thousands'

A German trade union has called for a strike at airports across the country on Wednesday. All intercontinental flights to and from Munich will be canceled; Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Frankfurt airports will also be hit. A Lufthansa official said the upcoming strike shows "that we desperately need rules for labor disputes in the air transport industry," as six airports across German...

Passenger's suicide attempt thwarted by crew during Cathay Pacific flight

On Saturday night, a passenger aboard a Cathay Pacific flight reportedly tried to slash his own throat and then hang himself as the plane was landing in Hong Kong. According to The Standard, a 31-year-old Nepalese man was flying on Cathay Pacific Flight CX411 as it traveled from Incheon International Airport in South Korea to Hong Kong when he locked himself in a bathroom as the aircraft was ab...

Emirates’ chief commercial officer rejects Air France-KLM CEO position

Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer Thierry Antinori declined an offer to be chief executive at Air France-KLM Group, saying he preferred to stay with the Dubai-based airline. “I’ve been contacted but I’m not interested," Mr Antinori told reporters in Dubai on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market conference. “If I stay in the airline industry, which I lov...

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