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Alitalia Aims To A Profitable 2017 And Speeds Up Its Turnaround

Aeroflot won the Russian Business Travel & MICE Award in the “Best Company for Business Travelers” category

Once again Aeroflot won the prestigious Russian Business Travel & MICE Award in the “Best Company for Business Travelers” category. The solemn awarding ceremony was held on October 1st at “President-Hotel” in Moscow, the carrier’s press-service reports. &ldq...

TNT transport solar car to Australia for World Solar Challenge

TNT has transported a prototype solar car from the Netherlands to Australia for the World Solar Challenge between 18 and 25 October. The car, called Stella Lux, built by students at Eindhoven University of Technology, was transported by road from Eindhoven (the Nethe...

Pegasus hits 100 route milestone

Pegasus Airlines has reached a milestone of 100 destinations as it launches its latest two new bellyhold routes to Turkey’s Kars and Ordu-Giresun. Flights between Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport and Kars Airport are launching on 9 November, while the Ordu-Giresun route launches on 13 November, with daily return flights scheduled for both destinations. Flights to Kars f...

Etihad awards cloud computing contract to IBM

Etihad Airways has signed a US$700 million deal with IBM to provide cloud computing services that the airline says will make air travel easier for passengers. The 10-year technology services agreement will mean IBM provides new information technology services to Etihad and its partner airlines via a new cloud data centre in Abu Dhabi. Etihad said the centre – which IBM will develop and...

Caribbean Airlines confirms it will end B767, European ops

Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) is proceeding with plans to phase out its only widebody equipment while simultaneously abandoning transatlantic flights to London Gatwick with effect from January 10 of next year. In a statement, the Trinidadian carrier said it had taken the decision following a detailed review of its network which took into consideration the current competi...

US airlines said to hit Justice Department hurdle in Gulf airline dispute

The US Justice Department has raised concern about demands by US airlines that the government limit flights of three Middle Eastern rivals to the United States, three sources familiar with the matter have said. Justice Department antitrust officials warned of higher fares and fewer choices for consumers if the Obama administration blocks new flights by Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways...

Russian Missile-Maker Contradicts Dutch MH17 Crash Report

A Russian state-controlled missile-maker says its own investigation of last year's crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe. Results of the Dutch investigation are to be released later Tuesday. Yan Novikov, head of the Russian Almaz-Antey concern, speaking at a news conference, did not specify what was in the report and he did not say...

Airlines Warned Giving Google Any Data Will Ensure You're Hostage to It for Life

It's almost remarkable that over five years have now passed since Google made its first significant foray into the travel industry. Google had, lest we forget, been working "within" travel for years - trousering billions of dollars in marketing spend from almost every brand in the industry through its keyword-buying programme (PPC advertising). But when the search giant's s...

Pilot in Kyushu Near-Miss Incident Misunderstood Control Tower Instructions

A small plane involved in a near-miss incident with a Japan Airlines Co. jet in southern Kyushu on Saturday misunderstood landing permission given by a traffic controller, the transport ministry said Monday. The controller instructed the JAL jet to land first and the small plane to follow, but the pilot of the small plane apparently mistook another plane for the JAL jet and tried to land b...

India's SpiceJet Could Order Up to 250 Aircraft by End of March

Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd. is making money again and plans to order new aircraft worth billions of dollars in the next five months, said its chairman. As the once-struggling airline gets set for a new round of expansion, it could order more than 200 aircraft by the end of March. It is in advance stages of discussions with Boeing Co. and Airbus Group SE for passenger jets...

CEO: Ethiopian to Decide on Extra-Long-Haul Fleet by Year End

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam has confirmed to ATW the carrier is evaluating extra-long haul aircraft and hopes to have a decision by year end. "The extra-long-haul fleet selection is still in progress. There is a committee working on the evaluation and the committee has not yet made any recommendation to the executive management," Gebremariam told ATW. Several me...

Qantas Plans Non-Stop Flight from Perth to London on New Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Aircraft

Qantas plans to offer a 19 hour non-stop flight between Perth and London within two years, to become the longest commercial flight in the world. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline had plans to fly the 14,000 kilometre route between Australia and the UK by 2017 using its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. "The 787-9 has the range to operate such a route," Joyce told A...

Sneak Peek of Singapore Airlines' First Airbus A350 XWB

A sneak peek of Singapore Airlines (SQ)'s first Airbus A350 XWB comes to life. The flag carrier's highly anticipated first A350-900 aircraft, Registration 9V-SMA, is scheduled to join the airline's fleet in January 2016, the airline announced on Monday. "Singapore Airlines expects to take delivery of the first new plane in January next year with services scheduled to be...

AirAsia rejects reports of planned privatization

AirAsia Group has rejected reports in the Malaysian press claiming it is in talks with undisclosed investors over the possible privatization of the company. Quoting informed sources, Reuters last week said AirAsia Group founder and CEO Tony Fernandes and long-time business partner Kamarudin Meranun were trying to arrange financing with banks for a management-led buyout. However, while t...

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