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Flight Cancelled? Airline Says It Couldn't Fly Without Refueling

A Chinese traveler surnamed Liu has planned to travel from Fuzhou to Kathmandu, Nepal via Guangzhou and booked a ticket for October 15. However, he was informed Tuesday by China Southern Airlines (CZ) that his flight, numbered CZ3067, from Guangzhou to Kathmandu was suspended. It is lea...

FAA proposes $1.9 million civil penalty against UAS operator

FAA has proposed a $1.9 million civil penalty against Chicago-based SkyPan International for allegedly conducting “65 unauthorized commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flights over various locations in New York City and Chicago between March 21, 2012 and Dec. 15, 2014. The flig...

Malaysia Airlines 737 Pilots Brace for Latest Shakeup

As a result of its latest moves to shed excess capacity, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) has hatched plans to offer 100 to 120 Boeing 737-800 pilots for secondment next year to interested airlines. If the plan does not materialize, the company would offer pilots either a two-year leave without pay or a 15-day work month at half salary. According to an official at the carrier's flight op...

Does All-Business Class Have a Future?

An all-business class airliner is still a relatively novel idea. It’s also a fairly specialized niche that several companies have tried and failed to occupy in recent years. US carriers MAXjet, EOS and their UK rival Silverjet all disappeared within a matter of months between 2007 and 2008, when fuel prices rocketed and the poorly-hedged airlines found themselves financially crippled....

Air France Violence A National Embarrassment - Ministers

Violent acts by workers at Air France's headquarters are a national embarrassment that reinforces the very image the country wants to shake off, French political leaders said. "This image hurts our country," said Prime Minister Manuel Valls, as pictures of senior Air France officials with their shirts ripped and torn off adorned newspaper front pages around the world. Valls was...

AirAsia Sounding Out Investors To Take Company Private

The founders of AirAsia are reported to be sounding out investors to take the company private in a management-led buyout, after its shares took a beating this year following a critical research report. AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes and his long-time business partner Kamarudin Meranun are working with banks to secure financing for the transaction, which could be launched over the next few months,...

Flydubai flight to Beirut returns to Dubai with engine issue

A flydubai flight to Beirut was forced to return to its home airport on Tuesday morning after the aircraft developed a technical glitch. A spokesman for the budget airline said ground staff “decided that flight FZ157 should return to Dubai due to the performance of one of the engines”. The flight left Dubai International Airport at 8am and was scheduled to land in Beirut at 11.10...

TATA SIA Airlines: Transformation of Aviation Sector can yield $250 billion by 2025

At a time when the government led by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has embarked upon an ambitious plan to unleash the growth potential of India’s economy,TATA SIA Airlines Limited released in Delhi today, a report titled, ‘Maximising the contribution of aviation to the Indian economy’, prepared for the company by CAPA- Centre for Aviation. With an anticipated...

Kazakhstan Customs Authorities Refuse to Grant Customs Import Duty

In May 2015, Kazakhstan customs authorities charged substantial additional customs duties and taxes on BEK AIR, a Dutch-Kazakhstan joint venture which is the country’s first low-cost airline. Bek Air has a fleet of 7 Fokker 100 aircraft, operating 12 domestic destinations, this year it is expected Bek Air will transport more than 0ne Million passengers. In 2013-2014, the company...

AirAsia Japan granted Air Operator’s Certificate

AirAsia Japan Co., Ltd. (CEO: Yoshinori Odagiri) today announced that the airline has been granted the Air Operator’s Certificate by the Civil Aeronautics Act by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, under the air transport business, Japanese Aviation Law Article 100. AirAsia Japan is scheduled to commence operations from their base at Chubu Centrair International Airpo...

Jota Aviation marks successful first year in the jet set

Jota Aviation, the specialist UK air charter firm based at London Southend Airport, is marking its first year of operations with its BAe 146-200 regional jet as its senior management attends the European Regions Airline Association’s annual general meeting in Berlin later this month. In its first year the aircraft will have flown near to 800 hours, flying as far afield as Marrakech and suppo...

airberlin starts off the fall season with stable capacity utilization

In September 2015, airberlin transported a total of 3,160,104 passengers. In light of an extensive capacity reduction by 7.2 percent, the number of passengers decreased by 6.4 percent as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. Analogously, the revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) traveled within airberlin’s global flight route network decreased by 7.2 percent to 4.631 billion...

Innovative UK-based Airlines Firnas Airways launches

UK carrier Firnas Airways has launched a Gulf funding campaign in a bid to raise the US$50 million it requires for expansion. The airline’s founder and CEO, British entrepreneur Kazi Shafiqur Rahman, is confident Gulf investors will be keen to capitalise on an airline concept and business model that is unique in its scope and ambition. Firnas Airways will establish routes between...

OPINION: Unmanned aviation still a work in progress

Unmanned aircraft are the future of aviation, or so we are led to believe – not least because of their endurance, and the access they offer to some areas that cannot be reached by manned flight. It is generally accepted that they will complement the work currently carried out by manned aircraft, as well as facilitate moves into new markets. But this is easier said than done. Associated...

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