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Wizz Air Continues Expansion In Fyrom

Wizz Air announced further growth to its low fare route network from FYROM with three new Skopje services. WIZZ will connect Skopje with Berlin Schoenefeld from 21 March 2016, while the new Skopje services to Copenhagen and Bratislava will commence in 22 and 28 March, respectively....

Bangkok Airways remains unaffected from Category 2 rating

Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated the outcome from aviation safety assessment of Civil Aviation Administration of Thailand (CAAT) in October 2015 has been assigned to Category 2 which cause...


S7 Airlines developed a new fare system

S7 Airlines, a member of the oneworld® global aviation alliance®, announces launching a new flexible fare system. Now a passenger has an opportunity to choose, what he/she will need in his/her trip, and pay only for those services, which he/she is going to use. The new fare system includes four fare groups – Economy Basic, Economy Flex, Business Basic and Business Flex. Diffe...

Aeroflot Named Best Company for Business Travelers

Aeroflot was named the winner of Brand Awards in the nomination The Best Company for Business Travelers at the gala event in Moscow hosted by Fashion Events agency. Aeroflot is the winner of this award not for the first time. The carrier is a premium airline with a modern aircraft fleet which is among the youngest in the world. More th...

Aviation Industry in Southeast Asia Looks to Recover from Latest Blows

Southeast Asia's aviation sector sought to recover from a new blow to its reputation Wednesday after the U.S. regulator downgraded its safety rating on Thailand's air-travel industry and AirAsia Bhd. faced questions about its practices a day after Indonesian investigators released findings on a crash last year that killed 162 people. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cut Thailand...

Skywise Airline Suspended

After weeks of speculation on the state of the airline, Skywise Airline has been suspended from operating at any Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) airports The budget airline was previously temporarily grounded over a payment dispute with ACSA and the Air Traffic and Navigation Systems. The December suspension however relates to unpaid airport charges. "Airports Company South...

Cargo Plane Returns to Hangzhou Due to Tyre-Burst on Takeoff

A Zhejiang Loong Air (GJ) cargo flight heading toward Kunming Wednesday morning made an emergency landing at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International airport (HGH) after the aircraft suffered a tyre-burst while taking off, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Boeing 733 aircraft, Registration B-2954, performing cargo flight CDC8712 from Hangzhou to Kunming with three people on board,...

Australian Says New Analysis Backs Search Area for Flight 370

Australian authorities said Thursday that new analysis confirms they've likely been searching in the right place for a missing Malaysian airliner. Searchers have been combing a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) part of the Indian Ocean since last year but have yet to turn up any trace of Flight 370. A wing flap was found in July washed up on remote Reunion Island. The new ana...

United Airlines to "Mobilize" Airport Customer Service Representatives with Apple's iPhone 6 Plus

United yesterday announced the airline will equip its customer service representatives in the company's U.S.-based hubs with Apple's iPhone 6 Plus, enabling agents to meet customers' needs more quickly while having access to additional operational information at their fingertips. United will begin distributing the devices to its more than 6,000 hub-based customer service repres...

South African Police Begin Probe into Country's National Airline

South Africa's Police Service will start an investigation into the country's state-owned airline, which is facing mounting financial losses while remaining reliant on government support. "We have an investigation that we will be conducting and the SAA board has been informed," Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, known as the Ha...

Vueling A320 at Turin on Dec. 1, 2015, Rejected Takeoff Due to Bird Strike

A Vueling Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration EC-MBY performing flight VY-6515 from Turin (Italy) to Barcelona, SP (Spain), was accelerating for takeoff from runway 36 when the right hand engine (CFM56) ingested a bird prompting the crew to reject takeoff. The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron. A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration EC-JSY was dispatched to Turin, per...

Malaysia Airlines and Emirates sign agreement to expand partnership

Existing Interline agreement has been enhanced to a reciprocal codeshare partnership Malaysia Airlines and Emirates today announced a new partnership that will give their customers a seamless international network connecting Malaysia to more than 90 destinations on the Emirates network across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas, exclusive frequent flyer benefits and world-class travel...

British Airways embraces Apple Watch technology

The use of the British Airways Apple Watch app has quadrupled in just four months, and in response the airline is introducing new scanners to make them easier, and faster to use. Customers will be able to slide their wrists under the new ‘Scan and Go’ devices to scan their boarding pass, print their own bag tags and speed through the airport.  Some 136 of the new gadgets are...

Turkish Airlines Extends Sharm El-Sheikh Flight Ban Until January 1

Turkish Airlines has extended the suspension of its flights to and from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh until January 1, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “Because of security issues over the airfield of Sharm El Sheikh our flights has been mutually canceled till 1st January 2016,” the statement reads. The company suspende...

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