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Qatar Airways Cargo launches QR Express

Qatar Airways Cargo has today announced the launch of QR Express, a solution to deliver airport-to-airport air freight service for time critical shipments. QR Express is the latest addition to the cargo airline's expanding portfolio of specialised services and products. Above: QR Exp...

Latvia’s airBaltic Increases its Firm C Series Order to 20 Bombardier CS300 Aircraft

CS300 aircraft’s first operator airBaltic and Bombardier enter into a firm agreement to convert seven option aircraft to firm as Riga-based airline transitions to all-Bombardier fleet. Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that Latvian flag carrier Air Baltic Corpora...

Air France makes new cost-cut proposals to pilots

Air France has made fresh cost-cutting proposals to pilots' unions that would see a rise in the number of flying hours and more flexibility in return for a share of the resulting productivity gains, the French carrier's head said on Monday. The plans by Air France, which were sent to unions on Sunday, with a May 2 deadline to respond, would also see it hire more than the 600 new pilots...

Virgin pilot found over the limit before commercial flight loses appeal

A Virgin pilot who failed a breath test before he was due to fly out of Canberra with 96 passengers has lost a bid to clear his name. The pilot was selected for the test at Canberra Airport at about 8am on the morning of his birthday in August 2013. A Virgin pilot has lost an appeal against his conviction for being over the limit before a commercial flight. ...

France's La Compagnie mulls A320neo, B737 MAX for TATL ops

La Compagnie (B0, Paris Le Bourget) is in advanced talks with Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) and Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare) over the planned acquisition of new transatlantic-capable aircraft due for delivery in either 2018 or 2019. “We’re thinking about the A320neo and the B737 MAX 9 and exploring all the best finance options for that purpose right now,” CEO Fr...

Virgin Australia Announces New Codeshare With Alitalia

Virgin Australia today announced a new codeshare agreement with Italy’s national carrier, Alitalia. On sale from 15 April 2016, Virgin Australia customers will be able to book travel on Alitalia’s daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Rome and Milan Malpensa*. Virgin Australia Chief Commercial Officer Judith Crompton said: “We are very excited to partner with Alitalia and provide...

Unused A320 crashes during ground transport in Hyderabad

An unused Air India passenger plane that was being road-transported from the Begumpet Airport ‘crashed’ into private property in Hyderabad. No injuries were reported. Police sources revealed the Airbus A-320 was being shifted from the airport to Air India’s cadet training facility at Balanagar when the incident happened. A part of airport wall was removed to facilitate extract...

Call for lasers to be classed as offensive weapons amid thousands of incidents

Police are being forced to respond to thousands of laser pen incidents resulting in calls for them to be classed as offensive weapons. Since 2014 there have been almost 6,500 police reports involving laser pens, including shining them into aeroplane cockpits, at oncoming traffic and into people's front rooms. This includes officers responding to more than 400 cases of aircraft being targ...

Second Qantas flight turned back after 'vibrating' engine

An international Qantas flight has been forced to turn back after reports of a "vibrating" engine, the second incident of its kind in five days. QF61, flying from Brisbane to Tokyo Narita, scheduled to take off at 10.45 on Saturday morning, backtracked to Brisbane about half an hour into the nine-and-a-quarter hour journey to the Japanese capital. A Qantas spokespers...

Flybe CEO on Joint Ventures: No Thanks

Flybe Group Plc, Europe’s biggest regional airline, wants to expand code-sharing agreements with long-haul carriers to boost passenger numbers after barely breaking even in its last fiscal year. Flybe stock fell to an 11-month low after Chief Executive Officer Saad Hammad said the U.K. carrier earned a “wee” pretax profit in the 12 months through March. He said the figure...

Air France Is Trying to Woo Young Travelers with a Discount Loyalty Program

Air France will introduce loyalty cards offering 30 percent discounts on domestic routes to passengers aged 12 to 24 as it seeks to lure young travelers away from trains, long-distance buses, and low-cost carriers. The cards will sell for 49 euros ($56) and run for a year, Air France President Frederic Gagey said Friday at a Paris briefing. They’ll be valid for bookings with Air...

Rayani Air halts operations after pilot strike

Rayani Air has suspended operations since yesterday after the country’s first Shariah compliant airline was launched just about three months ago last December. Rayani Air founder Ravi Alagendrran said the decision was made following a strike by the airline's pilots yesterday and “technical” issues, which he did not elaborate on. “We apologise to all our passengers...

Passenger dies aboard Dubai-bound Qantas flight

Qantas declined to give further information about the passenger and the circumstances around his death for privacy reasons. A passenger has died aboard a Qantas jet bound for Dubai, the airline said Saturday (Apr 9), with the man reportedly suffering from a heart attack mid-air. Flight QF9, which was travelling from Melbourne Friday, was diverted to Muscat, Oman for the medical emergen...

Flydubai plane piloted into ground at 600kph, flight records show

Flydubai flight FZ981 was on manual control when the cockpit crew apparently sent it into a nosedive, resulting in a fatal crash in Russia, investigators have reported, citing flight recorder data. The plane hit the ground at 600kph and was at an angle of 50 degrees. The flight records have been transcribed and provisionally analyzed, the Interstate Aviation Committee reported on Friday. The da...

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