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What makes a great branded airline outstation airport lounge?

It seems like the branded outstation airport lounge is having something of a renaissance. With airlines continuing to fight for lucrative business and first class passengers — not to mention the frequent flyers in economy who are often on high-value last minute fares — there’s a lo...

Global Eagle renews strategic content deal with JAL

Global Eagle Entertainment Inc.,a worldwide provider of aircraft connectivity systems, operations solutions and media content to the travel industry, today announced a multi-year renewal of its strategic content services agreement with JAL Brand Communications, LTD (JBC), a JAL subsidiary managing J...

Kuwait Airways cancels key route to avoid US anti-discrimination law

The alternative was for the airline to end its policy of discriminating against Israeli passengers. “The US Department of Transportation will not tolerate unlawful discrimination, and has mandated that the airline immediately cease that practice and allow Israeli passengers to travel between the US and London,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said. With the termination of servic...

Injuries reported after severe turbulence on flight from NY to Miami

A strong wind gust over Jacksonville, Fla. was blamed Friday for causing severe turbulence on board an American Airlines flight from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Miami International that hurt five passengers and a flight attendant. Flight 1410 encountered the turbulence about 40 minutes from landing, WSVN reported. The airline said in a statement that the seatbelt light was on at the t...

These Airlines Have the Healthiest Foods

A survey reveals the healthiest — and unhealthiest — airline meals. Airlines haven’t exactly developed a reputation for providing healthful in-flight foods—and even the world’s best in-flight food service serves up sinful (if not exactly healthful) dishes like creamy lobster mac and cheese, extensive wine menus, and feta cheese with figs and truffle honey. Since...

Passengers can reserve online for inflight shopping

Shopping above the clouds will become easier and more convenient for Lufthansa passengers. As of now leisure and business travelers can reserve their desired items from the Inflight-Shopping-selection of Lufthansa WorldShop online at www.LH.com/preflight-shopping before their Lufthansa flight. A free “preflight shopping” reservation is non-binding and can be made up to four d...

Lufthansa digitizes inflight newspapers and magazine

Lufthansa will soon be offering its inflight guests a much wider range of German-language and international newspapers and magazines. The substantial expansion of the present offer of reading material on board has been made possible by the media’s increasing use of electronic publishing channels. Today’s smartphone users in Germany spend an average of two-and-a-half hours a day on t...

Rosaviatsia awards further international traffic rights

Following the collapse of Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Vnukovo) last year, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) has set about reallocating international traffic rights to several local companies. In its latest bulletins, the regulator awarded Rossiya (FV, St. Petersburg) passenger, mail, and freight rights for seven weekly return flights from Moscow to Miami Int'l and f...

Passenger spends 40 minutes battling to save man's life on Ryanair flight

A woman fought to save the life of a man having a heart attack for forty minutes on a Ryanair flight, it was reported. The plane was en route to Liverpool from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands when the man had a heart-attack. The plane was diverted to Cork in Ireland where the unnamed female passenger continued to work on the man, despite heavy turbulence. The woman, who was trav...

E-cigarette in luggage blamed for smoke, emergency landing

Hawaiian Airlines says an e-cigarette illegally put in a checked bag may have caused smoke and an emergency landing. The cargo-smoke indicator in the cockpit lit up during a flight from Honolulu to Maui on Tuesday, an airline spokesman said Friday. Alex Da Silva said the captain turned on the plane's fire-suppression system, declared an emergency and landed quickly at the Maui Airport....

Air France Drops 'Plan B' Restructuring

Air France is reported to have dropped its "plan B" restructuring of job losses that triggered clashes with staff last year. In new plans outlined to the airline's works council, Air France targeted growth in its long-haul network from 2017, Reuters news agency reported. The measures are conditional on greater productivity efforts from pilots and cabin crew. Net investments...

Aeroflot ready for privatization

Aeroflot ready for privatization, but its usefulness is not obvious in 2016, told reporters the head of the Board of Directors Kirill Androsov at the Gaidar forum in 2016, organized by the Ranepa and the Gaidar Institute. “Aeroflot is a joint stock company with listing on the Moscow exchange, with daily trading and with a large number of financial institutional investors, so no other addi...

Qatar Air Says It Could Split Oneworld Alliance Over Open Skies Fight

Qatar Airways said it may seek to form a breakaway group within the Oneworld alliance should fellow member American Airlines Group Inc. continue to lend its weight to a U.S. push to curb the growth of Gulf rivals. Qatar Air, which joined Oneworld in 2013, won’t tolerate a situation where “conditions are no longer conducive to a fair business relationship and mutual respect,” C...

Virgin Atlantic to Spend $4.3 Billion on 12 Airbus Jets

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is set to announce a deal for 12 Airbus Group SE A350-1000 jets with a list price of $4.3 billion as Richard Branson’s flagship carrier renews its wide-body leisure fleet, according to people with knowledge of the plan. U.K.-based Virgin will probably buy nine of the twin-engine planes directly from Airbus and take three from leasing firms, said the...

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