A Lufthansa A380 flight aborted taxiing before takeoff from Frankfurt airport after the pilot requested a check on the aircraft’s undercarriage. Even though check confirmed nothing was amiss, passenge...
Tony Fernandes, CEO of Air Asia and Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic placed a bet at the beginning of the 2010 Formula One season that the losing F1 team would serve drinks on the winner’...
In the past ten months of 2010, UTair Aviation has reported it handled 3,782, 644 people, a 31% increase over the same period in 2009. Passenger load factor was 78.2%, up 6.3%; with turnover reaching ...
Russian domestic carrier S7 Airlines has officially joined the Oneworld alliance. Its subsidiary Globus has become an affiliate member. The Russian airlines now benefit from the full range of services...
The European Union is reported to be trying to force Ireland to agree to a big rise in its rate of corporation tax as a condition of an €80 billion economic rescue package. Ireland has not yet made a ...
Airbus has warned of potential delays on deliveries of A380 aircraft following the blowout of the Rolls-Royce engines one of Qantas Airline’s A380 last week. David Epstein, general manager of Qantas, ...
EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ionnaou is reported to be setting up easyHoliday – a rival company to easyJet Holidays, which is jointly owned by easyJet and accommodation provider Lowcosttravelgroup...
Airbus parent company EADS has topped analysts expectations and reported a narrow net profit in the third quarter. Net income for EADS rose to €13 million ($18 million) in the third quarter, which was...
A British Airways 747-400 aircraft made an emergency landing at Vancouver International Airport due to an overheating engine. According to British Airways spokesman John Lampl, one of the aircraft’s ...
Bioenergy firm Solena Group has signed a letter of intent with clean energy company Rentech for the use of its proprietary Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel technology in Solena’s sustainable biojet fuel...
The European Parliament deems the sharing of passenger name records (PNR) initiative between the US and the EU as “intrusive”. The date, personal information such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, t...
Dublin Aerospace has been awarded a five-year contract with easyJet to overhaul its A319 series aircraft landing gears and to carry out the embodiment of a number of wing inspection service bulletins ...
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