Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, bmi’s chief executive, has confirmed that the board has drawn up a strategy which would see bmi operating as a feeder airline to parent company, Lufthansa, in continental Eu...
Etihad Airways has written to Virgin Atlantic to express “top level interest” in taking over the airline. Etihad, which is based in Abu Dhabi and is chaired by Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in ...
Simon Glass has been appointed as chief financial officer of Dublin based aircraft lessor, AWAS. Glass will be based at the Dublin headquarters and will join the firm on February 1, 2011. “The ent...
Frankfurt-based MRO service provider Haitec has selected spares firm A J Walter Aviation for a three-year contract to manage its component repair and overhaul requirements from January 2011. Haitec...
Airbus has announced it will create 770 new jobs at its Flintshire site by taking on contract Blue Arrow workers on permanent Airbus contracts. The new contracts will be phased in from March. Paul ...
Spanish carrier plans to add three new aircraft to its fleet before the end of the year. Along with the six aircraft the airline reached agreement on in 2010 for service introduction between April ...
Unite members, the union representing British Airways cabin crew, could opt to use guerilla-style industrial action such as work to rule if they vote in favour of further action in a ballot today. ...
Shares in British Airways have halted trading on the London Stock Exchange after 24 years. The UK flag carrier’s merger with Spanish carrier Iberia completes today and shares in the new company, In...
The European airports association ACI Europe has warned loosening the ban on liquids in hand luggage could endanger security. The association called the April deadline to lift the ban "overly ambit...
The delivery of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 to Armenian Armavia airlines is scheduled for next month. The SN 95007 will be handed over to Armavia after further tests, regional transport minister S...
Irish lessor Avolon has raised $650 million in debt and equity to fund its expansion. The lessor has raised $250 million in equity from new and existing investors, along with $400 million debt rais...
GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, has delivered a new Airbus A320 aircraft to Virgin America. The delivery is the second new A320 from ...
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