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Estonian Air, 9% passenger traffic increase in 9 months of 2015

Estonia's national carrier Estonian Air announced that in the first nine months of this year, it carried altogether 457,998 passengers, out of which 439,996 on regular flights The total number of passengers increased 9.0% and on regular flights 9.2% compared to the same period last year. I...

EASA lays out plan to prevent Germanwings crash recurrence

European safety regulators are to host an aircrew medical fitness workshop by the end of this year, as part of an action plan aimed to prevent a repetition of the Germanwings Airbus crash last March. None of the 150 occupants of the A320 survived after the first officer, alone in the co...

Lufthansa cabin crew negotiations fail, strike possible

Lufthansa’s flight attendant union, UFO, has announced the latest round of talks between the airline and cabin crew workers have failed, and further strike actions could be possible. UFO, rejecting Lufthansa’s latest offer, said in a statement that elementary points such as job security were missing and negotiations “failed completely.” UFO represents around...

Almaz-Antey: Boeing 777 was shot down with 9M38 missile, launched from Zaroschenskoye settlement

On October 13th 2015 representatives of Almaz-Antey Concern held a press-conference and presented results of their experiments carried out in order to simulate the crash of Malaysian Boeing 777, which happened in July 2014 in Ukraine. The experiments carried out by Almaz-Antey proved that the Malaysian Boeing 777 was shot down by 9M38 missile, which was launched from Zaroschenskoye se...

Xiamen Airlines Has Taken Delivery of 17 Boeing 737-800s This Year

A brand new Boeing 737-800 aircraft Saturday landed smoothly at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (XMN) and joined the fleet of Xiamen Airlines (MF), which is the 17th 737-800 aircraft introduced by the airline this year. The 737-800 aircraft, Registration B-6887, is the second of the 44 all-economy 184-seat 737-800s. The Xiamen-based carrier has dry leased a 737-800 to...

Bestfly Awarded Chevron Ground Handling and Flight Support Services Contract in Angola

Bestfly, the Angola-based aviation services company has been selected by Chevron, through its subsidiary, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Ltd. (CABGOC), to provide all ground handling and flight support services to its entire aviation related operations in Angola. The contract, which commenced in September, covers the complete Chevron fleet of four Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft, and 10 Bell Helico...

JetBlue Plane Diverted When Flaps Become Stuck

A JetBlue Airways plane headed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Worcester, Massachusetts was diverted to Boston's Logan Airport after officials say a mechanical failure caused the plane's flaps to become stuck in an upright position. The Telegram & Gazette reports several passengers aboard Flight 2020 became sick Sunday as the pilot circled for about 10 minutes trying to c...

Southwest Airlines Flight Turns Back to LAX Amid Violence on Board

A Southwest Airlines jetliner bound for San Francisco had to turn around mid-flight and go back to Los Angeles after things got violent between two passengers on board the plane. "Our initial information is that flight attendants swiftly coordinated with pilots on the flight deck to get the aircraft on the ground safely and quickly after a physical altercation by one passenger ag...

Brussels Airlines launches five new destinations next summer

Brussels Airlines adds five new destinations and many extra flight frequencies to existing destinations in the summer offer, which can already be booked as from tomorrow. Tourist attractions such as the Greek Crete and the South Spanish Jerez are added to the summer offer. With Belfast Brussels Airlines also expands her network to Northern Ireland. Tenerife and Las Palmas / Gran Canaria –...

Turkish Airlines: Traffic results January-September 2015

Traffic results for the period of January-September 2015 are as follows: • During the period of January-September 2015 passenger carried increased by 12.2%, reaching to 46.5 million passengers from 41.4 million passengers for the same period of 2014. Increases in number of passengers carried in domestic and international lines are 16.5% and 9.1%, respectively. • International Busines...

China's Anti-Corruption Watchdog Targets Aviation Industry

Senior Chinese airline and aviation officials misused company funds, took bribes and accepted golf outings as gifts, the country's anti-corruption watchdog said in a series of inspection reports. The Communist Party's official newspaper and its economic planning agency were also singled out by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in its latest reports under President...

Airline business rollercoaster – do banks really know what they sign up for?

Several thousand at Air France, six thousand at Malaysian Airlines and almost 11,000 at Transaero - these are the potential job cuts to be carried out by these major world carriers. This once again comes to show that airline business always balances on a fragile edge between profit and loss. However, if a carrier reaches an extreme point of bankruptcy, what awaits its financial partners? Will the...

Air Malta on track to regaining profitability

As projected in last year’s AGM, loss for year ending March 2015 confirmed at €16 million - This year’s Air Malta projected loss reduced to €4 million: Down from €16 million in 2015 and from €78 million when the airline entered the restructuring plan in 2012 - Focus shifts to competitiveness: growth, workers productivity and strategic alliance Air Malta&...

New pricing structure launched by Brussels Airlines Cargo

Brussels Airlines Cargo will introduce a new pricing structure from the start of the aviation winter season, on 25 October. The carrier says the new structure better meets the market demand for more transparency, by instead of charging various surcharges on freight prices, as is the case today, there will only be one consolidated ‘Airfreight Surcharge’ in the future. Lu...

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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...