Strikes in France have shut down oil refineries are being blocked by protesters and fuel shortages are beginning to bite. France has been plagued by a number of strikes in recent weeks after President...
The strong recovery in air travel is slowing as the growth of the business class travel continues to outpace economy travel, says the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Iata figures sugge...
3D software provider, Ngrain has signed a deal with Cassidian (formerly EADS Defence & Security) to provide integrated solutions for virtual aircraft maintenance training. Under the agreement, Ngrain ...
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) and GE are celebrating a new flight hour record for GE's CF6-80C2B1F turbofan engine powering 747-400 aircraft around the world. The first engines of its type operated by Deuts...
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has won a contract to overhaul the engines of Austrian Airline A320-family fleet. The eight-year contract, which extends an existing agreement between the two, covers all CFM56...
The larger operator of 737 aircraft in Europe, Ryanair Holdings, has come out in favour of re-engine the aircraft in a bid to cut fuel cost especially when a re-designed model is still so far away. Ho...
Boeing has stated that it expect Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) airlines to buy about 960 new aircraft worth $90 billion over the next 20 years to upgrade the fleet of narrow-bod...
Russian airline, Donavia, formerly Aeroflot-Don, reported it handled 1,153,600 people in the nine-month period of 2010, representing a 21.6% increase over the same period in 2009. Year to date passeng...
French airline Aigle Azur has announced plans to fly direct commercial flights from Paris to Baghdad. The inaugural flight, the first for 20 years, begins on October 30 and two weeks later the the reg...
Latvian airline airBaltic reported a 16% increase in passenger figures for the month of September. The airline, which flies from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, carried 318,807 passengers last month and 2,...
Aer Lingus has forecast an operating profit of €29 million for 2010 after posting strong passenger figures for September. The Irish airline, which made an operating loss of €81 million in 2009, report...
An Iran Air Airbus A300-600 on route to Tehran from Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Vienna for unknown reason. The aircraft aborted take off from Vienna’s airport due to an engine problem, whic...
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