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

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...

German court allows Etihad to continue most airberlin codeshares

An appeals court in Germany on Thursday allowed Etihad to continue most of its disputed codeshare flights with airberlin for the winter schedule ending in March, handing the Abu Dhabi-based airline a partial victory. The court ruled that Etihad should be allowed to continue its codeshare agreemen...

Belavia signs interline agreement with Ural Airlines

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia has signed an interline agreement (an agreement on mutual recognition of e-tickets) with Russia's Ural Airlines, Igor Cherginets, Belavia's Deputy Director General for Marketing and Foreign Economic Affairs, said on Facebook, BelTA informs. “Now, the two airlines can sell tickets on each other's flights. Ahead is further strengthening of mutu...

BITRE stats show the changing fortunes of Qantas International

Here’s a stat that illustrates how Qantas International has turned the corner – for the month of October 2015, the number of passengers Qantas carried on its international operations to and from Australia grew by over five per cent, according to latest government data. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)’s latest monthly ‘International...

Got a spare US$432 million? Walk this way, your A380 awaits…

It always boggles the mind to look over the price-tags of new airliners whenever Airbus or Boeing update their list prices. Earlier this week Airbus released its average list prices for 2016, updated after a “price adjustment” of 1.1 per cent across its range. Not surprisingly the four-engine, double-decker A380 tops the table with a list price now at US$432.6 million...

TAP launches 'Porto - Lisbon Shuttle

• TAP EXPRESS will operate a new fleet of 8 ATR 72 and 9 Embraer 190 aircraft and increase capacity by 47% • More comfortable and ‘silent’ fleet, with 40% lower fuel consumption per passenger • New fleet evaluated in 400 million EUR • New Porto-Lisbon shuttle with flights every hour and prices starting at € 39 EUR &b...

2015 Set New Highs For Wizz Air

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, made great strides in calendar year 2015 and established itself as one of the best-performing ultra-low-cost carriers. Milestones for 2015 include a successful listing on the London Stock Exchange, a major brand refresh and livery update for its aircraft, a record aircraft order from Airbus at the Paris Air Show, and the entr...

American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group Announce Plans for a Joint Business

American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group are applying for regulatory approval to enter into a joint business (JB) to better serve their customers. The JB, which is subject to securing regulatory approvals, will offer American and LATAM customers an expanded network with coordinated schedules providing seamless travel on the airlines’ flights between the United States an...

Red-flagging Canada's Children on No-fly Lists

Nearly two dozen children, some as young as six-weeks old, have been red-flagged as airline threats by the Canadian government with little recourse to extricate themselves from a highly secretive no-fly list. The embarrassing revelations for the government have come to light since January 1, after the father of Adam Ahmed, 6, posted a photo of an airline computer screen showing his son listed a...

EasyJet urges cross-check rigour after take-off data incidents

EasyJet has underlined to crews the crucial importance of cross-checking performance calculations after three take-off incidents came under investigation in the space of four months. The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch says that pilots of an Airbus A320 erroneously used a full-length runway calculation when conducting an intersection departure from London Luton on 16 July last y...

Royal Jordanian awarded PCI DSS compliance certification

Royal Jordanian (RJ) has successfully attained the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance Certification and Attestation of Compliance for the first year. This accreditation was granted to RJ in recognition of its strict adherence to guidelines that safeguard consumers’ credit and debit card transactions through added reliability and security measures. RJ President/CEO Ca...

Malaysia Airlines signs codeshare deal with Emirates

Malaysia Airlines will codeshare on Emirates’s four times daily service to Dubai from Kuala Lumpur from February 15th, 2016 as part of the partnership between Malaysia Airlines and Emirates which was signed early December 2015. The flights offered by Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai will therefore increase from one to four daily, although all flights will be operated on Emirat...

Demand for low air fares increasing appeal of unmanned flight

The rising cost of providing navigation equipment for airline pilots, and the parallel demand for cheaper air fares, will inevitably lead to piloted flight being obsolete in 40 years’ time, a defence consultant has argued. Although pilotless commercial flight is arguably some years away, given technological and airspace restrictions, the demand to carry more passengers at lower costs will...

Aviation sector to rescue Arab economies hit by cheap oil?

Countries are pumping in billions of dollars to expand existing airports and build new ones. Airports in the Arab world see billions of dollars in the form of new investments, as countries in the region stepped up their efforts to boost the aviation sector. The oil rich economies, hit by the major decline in crude prices since June 2014, could be looking at the sector as a catalyst for their...

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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...