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Cathay Pacific Cabin Crew Union Demands 6% Pay Rise, Or Warns of Possible Action over Christmas

Travellers could face a Christmas of misery as Cathay Pacific's cabin crew union said it will consider industrial action that will cause mayhem unless they get a pay rise of 6 percent next year. The 7,200-member Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, representing about 80 percent of...

Australia-UAE air services agreement expanded

Emirates and Etihad have been granted additional traffic rights to Australia following the signing of a new air services agreement. Under the new arrangements announced on Friday Dubai-based Emirates will be able to operate 105 services to Australia each week to the four major gateways of Brisban...

Cathay Pacific A330 Suffers Hydraulic Failure Before Landing at Hong Kong Airport

A Cathay Pacific Airways (CX) Airbus A330 aircraft, performing flight CX654 from Bangkok to Hong Kong with 110 passengers on board, suffered a hydraulic system failure when the plane was ready to land at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) on Thursday afternoon. The Airbus A330-300, Registration B-LBE performing flight CX654 from Bangkok was on approach to Hong Kong Airport at around 6:30 p.m...

Pakistan CAA Grounds Three Pilots

Panic gripped pilots' community when Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) grounded three PIA pilots, asking them to undergo a psycho analysis, said sources in CAA here yesterday. Sources said, as per the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) rules, psycho analysis of pilots was mandatory only at the time of induction. A pilot, on condition of not to be named, said three to four co-p...

easyJet Flight Evacuated at Manchester Airport over Bomb Claim

An easyJet flight has been evacuated at Manchester airport after a passenger claimed to have explosives in his bag. Passengers were asked to disembark after the plane's captain alerted police to the potential threat. Greater Manchester Police confirmed that the EZY1893 flight, bound for Marrakech, Morocco, was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. as security checks were carried out. Two men we...

Russia Could Cancel Flights to Other Countries Besides Egypt

Flights not only to and from Egypt, but also to several other countries could be canceled due to terrorist threats, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. During a press conference after the APEC Summit in Manila, Medvedev said: "I cannot exclude that we may consider this issue in some cases, I mean the issue concerning flights to other countries. But...

Russian investigators: Air Samara pilots blamed for landing accident

Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has blamed Air Samara pilots for the hard landing accident of a Beechcraft B300 on Nov. 25, 2014. The aircraft, which belongs to State Transport Leasing Co., made a hard landing without gear at Samara Kurumoch International Airport. There were no passengers on board during the technical flight and the pilots were not injured. According to IAC...

Proflight Zambia helps rescue a baby vervet monkey

Proflight Zambia has helped the rescue of a two-week old vervet monkey after poachers killed its mother. The carrier flew the primate to Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust in South Luangwa National Park. “We know the importance of such species and the need to protect them. Tourists travel from far to come and see them. This alone helps to boost tourism in Zambia so ensurin...

Cathay details expansion with incoming A350s, 777Xs

Cathay Pacific says all of its incoming widebody jets will be directed at growth, and that the group will expand to a fleet of over 230 passenger aircraft by 2025. Speaking to Flightglobal, chief operating officer Rupert Hogg details that Cathay will add 22 Airbus A350-900s to its fleet over the next two years, followed by 26 A350-1000s from 2018 through to 2020. From 2021, it will also ta...

Emirates launches new toys for young travellers

Emirates has released its newest range of toys, the Fly with Me Animals for infants and toddlers and specially designed Fly with Me Lonely Planet activity bags for those aged between six and 12 years old. The new toys are now available on board, ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Emirates’ Fly with Me Animals is a new take on its signature kid’s products, replacing the p...

Lion Air Pilot Grounded for "Offering Hostess as Compensation for Delayed Flight"

An Indonesian airline has grounded a pilot after he allegedly offered an air hostess to passengers as compensation for a delay on a flight to the resort island of Bali. Loud moaning sounds were also heard from the cockpit throughout the Lion Air flight, with one passenger left so shocked that he lodged a complaint about improper behaviour with the transport ministry. The passenger, Lamb...

Aeroflot takes delivery of new SSJ-100

Aeroflot has taken delivery of a new Sukhoi Superjet 100 (registration number RA-89062) in full specification produced by JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA). The plane has been named in honour of Russian military pilot Peter Nesterov, an aerobatics pioneer and the first to perform the loop-the-loop maneuver subsequently known as «Nesterov’s...

Angela Merkel opens the new Lufthansa Integrated Operations Control Center

Today Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel visited the Lufthansa Group in Frankfurt. The visit to the facility was occasioned by the opening of the new traffic control center (Integrated Operations Control Center – IOCC), an exchange with apprentices, as well as the naming ceremony of an Airbus A380. Angela Merkel began her visit by officially opening Lufthansa’s new traffic control...

New Iran airline ready for launch

Iran’s media said on Saturday that a new airline will become operational in the country by next April. The new airline will be called “Tehran Air” and will be equipped with 11 aircraft - four Airbus 340 and seven Airbus 321 planes. Mohammad-Ali Ilkhani, the CEO of Tehran Air, has been quoted by the Persian-language news agency Tasnim as saying that the ai...

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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...