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Google Working to Make Package Delivery by Drones a Reality by 2017

Internet giant Alphabet Inc, the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of its drone effort said on Monday. David Vos, the leader for Alphabet's Project Wing, said his company is in talks with the...

Virgin Australia Cancels All Flights to and from Bali

Virgin Australia has cancelled all of today's flights to and from the Indonesian island of Bali because of concerns about volcanic ash. The airline said its team of meteorologists and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre had deemed it unsafe to fly around Denpasar Airport. Virgin said it...

Lufthansa Faces Week-Long Strike Amid Low-Cost Unit's Expansion

Deutsche Lufthansa faces a week-long strike by cabin crew as part of a long-running dispute with unions related to plans to expand low-cost unit Eurowings. Flight attendants will walk out Nov. 6 through Nov. 13 unless Lufthansa improves its offer, union head Nicoley Baublies said at a press conference in Moerfelden-Walldorf, Germany. The union set a deadline of Thursday at 5:00 p.m. in Frankfur...

Air NZ Passengers Stuck on Tarmac Due to Missing Pilot

Passengers on an Air New Zealand flight were forced to wait for hours on the tarmac after a pilot failed to show up because he confused the time. The early-morning flight to Singapore was scheduled to leave Auckland International Airport at 1:15 a.m. on Monday. An Auckland Airport spokeswoman confirmed the flight, NZ282, did not depart until 4:38 a.m. A friend of one of the passenger...

Norwegian becomes Birmingham’s fastest growing airline

Norwegian has carried over 70,000 passengers since launching its first flights in March The low-cost carrier has introduced more new routes than any other airline Low-cost flights to Tenerife and Gran Canaria launch this week Low-cost airline Norwegian continues its rapid expansion at Birmingham this week with the launch of two new routes – making it the fastest growing carrier at the a...

S7 Airlines increased the passenger turnover by 11%

S7 Group member airlines summarized the results of their activity in September 2015. The airlines carried 1 057 669 passengers, which is 11.3% more than in September 2014. Passenger turnover growth on domestic routes amounted to 19.7% - during the last month 744 409 passengers used the group airlines’ services. In total the airlines performed 8 179 flights, which...

No Caps Set on Extra Cross-Strait Flights During Chinese New Year

Airlines from mainland China and Taiwan are allowed to operate more cross-strait flights during 2015 Chinese Lunar New Year travel rush, effective from January 25 to February 22, 2016, according to a conference held in Taipei lately. The civil aviation authorities of mainland China and Taiwan have agreed to set no cap on the total number of cross-Strait flights added during the Spring Festival...

Emirates rejects Delta's rationale for ending Atlanta Flights and looks to fill the gap

Emirates has rejected Delta Airlines claim that competition from Gulf carriers have “forced” it to cancel flights between and Dubai and Atlanta from 11 February next year, reports Barbara Saunders. In a statement, EK says: “Delta is currently the only airline to operate non-stop between Atlanta and Dubai. It has no head-to-head competition on the route. Industry data shows tha...

Ryanair Lifts Profit Forecast On Fuller Planes

Ryanair has nudged up its annual profit forecast, saying fuller planes would take profits to the upper end of its previously estimated range even as winter competition pressures average ticket prices. The Irish airline, Europe's largest by passenger numbers, raised its full-year profit forecast by 25 percent in early September as lower fuel costs and poor weather in northern Europe boosted...

New low-cost carrier at Melbourne Tullamarine

Melbourne has a new low-cost option for air travel to Asia and a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner operator at Tullamarine. Singapore Airlines-owned Scoot’s inaugural flight TZ22, operated by 787-8 9V-OFC, touched down in the Victorian capital just before 1100 local time on Sunday. The aircraft was on the ground for a little over an hour before departing as TZ21 back to Singapore. The low-cost...

Qantas Retro Roo charity flight raises $114,000 for drought relief

Qantas’s Boeing 737-800 retrojet headed to Longreach over the weekend as part of a charity flight raising funds for drought affected Western Queensland. The ‘Retro Roo’, VH-XZP, touched down at Longreach just after 1000 local time on Saturday carrying a full load of 168 passengers who each paid $737 for the day trip from Sydney to the airline’s the spiritual home and the...

Scoot Targets China, India Markets

Scoot chief executive Campbell Wilson plans to make the budget carrier a conduit between Australia and fast-growing markets such as China and India as it expands its network from its home base in Singapore. A newly delivered Scoot Boeing 787 Dreamliner jetted into Melbourne yesterday to make the Victorian capital the long-haul budget carrier's fourth Australian destination after Sydney, the...

Report: Iran Buys 13 Boeing 737 Jets

Iranian airlines have bought 13 narrow-body Boeing 737 aircraft in their latest move to rebuild the country's commercial fleet, a news agency says. Two of the used aircraft, of the vintage 737-400 model, will fly in from a European country on Monday night, Fars quoted an informed source as saying Sunday without disclosing any names. The two aircraft are the first of eight Boeing 737...

UAE Bans 10 Countries, 30 Operators from Using Airspace

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has banned 10 countries and 30 operators from using UAE air space over a lack of commitment to safety, "Emarat Al Youm" reports. Meanwhile, the authority confirmed that it had carried out more than 300 inspections under "the national programme for safety assessment of foreign aircraft". The body asserted that such lists remain v...

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