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Qantas pilots get new look

Captain Debbie Slade has been a Qantas pilot for 27 years and counting. During that time, she has gone to work in a uniform that, while functional and practical, was never really designed for women pilots. All that will change from October, when Slade will head into the flightdeck of the...

5/20 rule ‘anarchic’, trying to change it: Ashok Gajapathi Raju

The rule entails that an airline can fly to international destinations only if it has served within the country for five years and has a 20-aircraft fleet. Terming the 5/20 rule which allows Indian carriers to fly abroad as “anarchic”, civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on T...

5 things to know about the CS100

Delta has placed orders for 75 CS100 narrowbody aircraft for delivery beginning in the spring of 2018. The state-of-the-art Bombardier C Series will provide added network flexibility with more fuel-efficient mainline aircraft. Here are 5 things to know about this aircraft type: It’s a widebody feel in a narrowbody aircraft. The CS100 has an enhanced interior, including som...

Bird Strike Leaves Large Dent In Plane

The pilot informs air traffic controllers he has to land again after the impact shortly after takeoff in Seattle. An American Airlines flight had to return to a Seattle airport after it was hit by a bird on takeoff, leaving a large dent in the plane's nose. Flight 2310 struck the bird shortly after leaving Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at around 3.36pm on Wednesday, but circled ar...

A Woman Gave Birth Mid-Flight and Named Her Child After the Airline

People have given birth on airplanes before, but not many give the honor of naming their child after the airline they were flying on. On a recent Jetstar flight between Singapore and Myanmar, a pregnant woman named Saw Ler Htu unexpectedly went into labor—the airline's regulations allow women less than 40 weeks pregnant on flights lasting four hours or less. Lucky for her, there were...

Qantas to keep Airbus A380s past 2020; talking to Boeing on 777X jets- exec

Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd plans to keep its Airbus Group long-haul A380 aircraft in service beyond 2020, when many will be around 10 years old, a senior executive said, even as it conducts talks with Airbus rival Boeing Co on the latter's next-generation B777X jets. "The A380s do a great job on the markets that they operate," said Gareth Evans, head of the...

Alitalia Wants a Major Stake in Air Malta

Italian airline Alitalia says it is considering buying a 49 percent stake in Air Malta. Alitalia, which is controlled by Abu Dhabi carrier Etihad Airways, signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday with the Maltese government to launch due diligence on a possible deal. Alitalia CEO Cramer Ball said any deal would not hurt Alitalia’s three-year re-launch, which includes the goal of ret...

Etihad says partnerships supported record year of profit in 2015

Etihad Airways says almost 30 per cent of passengers travelling on its aircraft in calendar 2015 were from its codeshare and alliance partnerships with other carriers. The figures were contained in the Abu Dhabi-based carrier’s financial results for calendar 2015 and released on Wednesday (United Arab Emirates time). The results show Etihad flew 17.6 million passengers in 2015, up 18.9...

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 Eurowings, with sources having said it is also eyeing partnerships or even takeovers of SAS ...

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 particularly warmly. Estonia is a fast growing market, and with 24% more travellers every month from t...

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...

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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...