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IndiGo inducts 100th A320

Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has taken delivery of its 100thAirbus A320 aircraft. The company celebrated the event with a ceremony at New DelhiInternational Airport, says IndiGo in a statement. The aircraft bears registration VT-IDR. Flightglobal’s Fleet A...

Germany Plans Spot Drug Tests On Pilots

Germany plans legislation requiring random drug and alcohol testing of pilots, hoping to reduce the risk of a repeat of the Germanwings crash in March. The plans follow the recommendation of a task-force set up by the Transport Ministry, after a pilot barricaded himself inside the cockpit of a pl...

Kiwi Regional Air shareholder eyes divestment

Kiwi Regional Airlines (KRL, Hamilton) shareholder 2 Cheap Cars is looking to dispose of its 10.4% stake in the airline. Eugene Williams, the CEO of the used car importer and retailer, told New Zealand's Business Desk news that the firm had "never intended to be a long-term investor" in the carrier which launched domestic operations in October this year. "When we first got in...

AtlasGlobal Ukraine drops An-148 plans

AtlasGlobal UA (UH, Lvov) managing director Sergei Podgorodetsky says that after a full due diligence of the type, his airline has formally abandoned plans to acquire An-148-100s from local Ukrainian manufacturer Antonov Design Bureau (Gostomel). Speaking to Russian business daily Delo, Podgorodetsky attributed the decision to the type's overinflated price. "We considered the possib...

Etihad to acquire stake in Air Malta?

Air Malta (KM, Malta) is close to finalizing a strategic partnership agreement with Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int'l) aviation sources in the Maltese capital, Valletta, have revealed. Speaking to The Times of Malta newspaper on condition of anonymity, the sources said airline chairwoman Maria Micallef and senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister had conducted the negotiatio...

Nigeria aviation agency tasks airlines to pay outstanding debts

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has appealed to domestic airlines to liquidate all outstanding debts to the authority and other aviation agencies in the country. The NCAA made the appeal in a statement issued by its Acting General Manager, Public Relations, Sam Adurogboye, on Sunday in Lagos. “Safety is a collective responsibility and we appreciate the cooperation from all...

You can buy apples kissed by flight attendants for $20 online

Apple products are a big seller on China’s eBay-equivalent website Taobao, but what about actual apples? People’s Daily Online (via The Daily Mail) is reporting that there’s been a rise of listings on the website of flight attendants supposedly kissing apples and selling them to interested customers. The apples, some of which claim to have been kissed by 500 air hostesses,...

I overcome a major fear in my life with a flight on this awesome personal seaplane

By Benjamin Zhang As Business Insider's transportation reporter, flying on planes is an integral part of my job description. Unfortunately for me, acrophobia is also a major part of life. Simply put, I don't like heights. Although I thoroughly enjoy flying on big airliners, small planes still bug me. I don't like the instability, the single engine, and I don't like the a...

Despite high profile accidents, 2015 was the safest year ever according to ASN data

Preliminary data as of December 26, 2015. Final data will be published January 1, 2016 The Aviation Safety Network today released the preliminary 2015 airliner accident statistics showing a record low total of 16 fatal airliner accidents, resulting in 560 fatalities.  Despite several high profile accidents, the year 2015 turned out to be a very safe year for commercial aviatio...

Chinese aviation sector flies into 2016 on record profits

China’s aviation industry is coming to the end of its most profitable year in history and is headed for a 2016 that will see more new airlines formed and new international routes added as the sector stands out as a bright spot in the mainland’s slowing economy. The industry turned in a total profit of 54.8 billion yuan (HK$65.7 billion) in the first 11 months of the year, up 76.2 pe...

African Carriers Set for More Losses in 2016, Says IATA

African airlines are facing another year in the red, with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicting collective losses of approximately $100 million for 2016. This follows loss estimates of some $300 million for African carriers in 2015, according to the organization’s recently revised industry outlook , in which it projected that globally the world’s airlines a...

2015 marks banner year for airlines selling ancillaries through OTAs

Just 18 short months ago, most airlines were attempting to grasp how they would craft merchandising strategies in order to fully exploit exploding ancillary revenue sales. Now with year-end 2015 fast approaching, online travel agencies (OTAs) have emerged as one of the fastest growing channels for ancillary revenues. Travel services technology provider and GDS firm Amadeus recently offered some...

Hands-on model for attracting girls to aviation gains popularity

“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” Gloria Steinem Among those leading the shift to gender balance in air and space is the Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide (iWOAW), whose flagship outreach program, Women of Aviation Worldwide W...

Cathay Pacific Fined $547,000 for Pilot Pay Practices in France

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. was fined almost 500,000 euros ($547,000) for what a French court termed irregular pay practices concerning pilots operating European routes for the Hong Kong-based airline. The penalty was imposed after union complaints that crew stationed at Charles de Gaulle airport weren’t being recognized by Cathay as based in France, allowing it to avoid making proper pay...

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