A feeder traffic agreement is imminent between low cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (NAS) and Finnair, according to NAS’s CEO. Bjoern Kjos said: “We’re working on it and we expect it will be set...
Ryanair has announced a 10% increase in passenger traffic for 2010. A record 72 million passengers opted to fly on the Irish low-cost airline, which also set a record for the amount of monthly passeng...
The UK Department of Transportation was seeking to push through legislation making airports liable for multimillion-pound fines for significant delays caused by snow as seen in December 2010. Howev...
The Russian Federal Service for Transport Supervision (Rostransnadzor) has recommended all Russian airlines temporarily refrain from the use of Tu-154 B aircraft. The crash of the aircraft type at S...
The families of the three people who died in the Surgut air crash on Saturday are to receive RUB2 million in insurance payments. One of the engines on the Tupolev-154B aircraft operated by regional ...
Pakistan-based scheduled airline airblue has taken delivery of two A319s from Dublin-based lessor AWAS. Tariq Chaudhary, chief executive officer of airblue, says: “The addition of these 2008 vintage...
Shares in SAS rose to the highest price in eight weeks after a Danish newspaper reported that Air France-KLM Group, Deutsche Lufthansa and British Airways would be ready to enter a bidding war over...
Turkish Airlines (THY) chairman Hamdi Topcu has stated that the airline is aiming to operate 180-200 aircraft by the end of 2011, and is targeting 27% growth and $8 billion revenue. The target seem...
French ministers have commented that they were happy with the deal on export credit for airlines. "The new agreement allows financial support conditions for all civil aircraft to be unified," said C...
Lufthansa has announced it will invest heavily in Munich airport to raise capacity by more than 40% from 2015. The German airline will invest €650 million jointly with the airport’s governing body, ...
Although the snow has been cleared and both runways are operating at London Heathrow, British Airways is struggling to clear the backlog of flights following four days of disruption. The problem h...
The recent snow disruption affecting UK and European airports has prompted the European transport commissioner Siim Kallas to propose minimum service requirements for airports. Kallas criticised th...
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