Volga-Dnepr Group transferred $170 million of advance payments from internal funds for five new Boeing 747-8Fs. The catalogue price is around $1 billion. The rest of the funds will be raised from west...
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline and the UK's leading domestic carrier, has moved quickly to ensure that passengers still have plenty of options following bmi Regional's news that it will susp...
Turkish Airlines, the fourth largest carrier in Europe, does not have enough aircraft to meet its expansion plans and may acquire the A380, chairman Hamdi Topcu told national newspaper The Star newspa...
A senior executive at Ethiopian Airlines told Aviation News that 28 CEOs who are members of the Star Alliance group will come to Addis Ababa on Tuesday (Sept 28). The executive said the CEOs will deli...
Ryanair has stated that it will close its Belfast City base at the end of October 2010. The airline cites the airport's confirmation that a public inquiry into a planned runway extension will be furth...
Co-owner of Trans Air, Les Wright, is thought to have been killed in a Trans Air crash in Papua New Guinea along with five others. The aircraft overshot the runway during heavy rain and burst into fla...
A three yaer "Time & Material" contract with Vietnam Airlines has been signed under which Iberia Maintenance will be responsible for the repair of line replaceable units on the carrier's A320 fleet, i...
Boeing has signed an agreement with Qantas Airways to perform landing gear exchange, repair and overhaul services for the carrier's six 747-400ERs. Qantas will be the launch customer for this service....
Hainan Airlines has reported net income of CNY557 million ($83 million) for the six months ending 30th June 2010, more than tripling a CNY175 million profit posted in the same period last year, operat...
Kingfisher Airlines hopes to raise $365 million within four months to pay off debt. The airline hopes to raise $250 million from the sale of global depositary receipts and a further $106 million in a...
Air China has amended an order with Boeing from 15 787-8 aircraft to 15 787-9s. The airline said the move will increase its fleet capacity by 11%. The original order was placed in 2005 with deliveries...
JAL has announced plans to cut staff levels by over 16,000 through retirement and/or redundancy. It is stated that this is to take place before the end of March 2013. In addition 103 aircraft will be ...
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