QANTAS PILOT STRIKE ACTION BEGINS TODAY
Pilots on international routes at Qantas have begun a two-day strike over a dispute over pay and conditions – this is its first industrial action in 45 years. Unauthorised announcements were made on f...
Pilots on international routes at Qantas have begun a two-day strike over a dispute over pay and conditions – this is its first industrial action in 45 years. Unauthorised announcements were made on f...
The new low cost carrier being set up by Singapore Airlines (SIA) will operate a fleet of Boeing 777-200 aircraft acquired from SIA but reconfigured into a new seating layout. ...
Chinese airlines have reported an aggregate net income of CNY12.78 billion ($1.98 billion) for the first half of 2011, representing a 26% over a net profit of CNY10.14 billion reported in the year-ago...
All Nippon Airways and AirAsia have jointly created a new low-cost carrier called AirAsia Japan. The new airline, which will begin domestic and international services from August 2012, will be based a...
Although United and Continental merges in October last year, they will not be able to reach agreements with all of their unions by the end of this year as they had hoped. Jeff Smisek, CEO of United Co...
The board of Air France-KLM is meeting next week to make a final decision on an order for 100 long-haul aircraft. The order has been predicted by French newspaper La Tribune to be split between Airbus...
Virgin Australia and Etihad Airways are reviewing their proposed thrice-weekly service from Brisbane to Abu Dhabi from February 2012. Etihad chief commercial officer Peter Baumgartner said it was not ...
Regional carrier Sun Country Airlines has been bought by a Minnesota family for an undisclosed sum after emerging from bankruptcy-court reorganization earlier this year. The new owner is the Davis fam...
Mexican low-cost carrier Interjet has captured 25% domestic market share in the country since its launch in December 2005. The Mexican airline carried over 16 million passengers. Aeromexico and Aerome...
Hossein Shariatmadari, a representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called for US and European airlines to be “taught an unforgettable lesson” for refusing to supply fuel to I...
Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline and the leading UK domestic airline, has strengthened its Board and re-organised its day-to-day divisional operating structure into three new operating units –...
The International Air Transport Association’s quarterly business confidence survey states that even though profit margins continued to be squeezed in the second quarter, confidence has returned and so...
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