IATA has reported a 0.6% year-over-year decline in the number of passengers flying in premium seats on North Atlantic routes during March, and a 1% increase on routes within Europe, leading it to desc...
Sources indicate that Thai AirAsia may be working to launch a Thai subsidiary of the AirAsia X brand. The rumours began when Thai AirAsia CEO, Tassapon Bijleveld, diluted his stake in Asia Aviation (A...
Kingfisher Airlines executive vice-president Hitesh Patel, who joined the carrier nine years ago, is to leave the company and is returning home to New York, according to sources. The fact that Patel w...
Thanks to a major restructuring effort, Air India has succeeded in cutting loss-making routes to 25% of its network in the 12 months to March 2013. This is an improvement from the 69% loss making rout...
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes preliminary air traffic figures for April 2013 measured in PRASK rose by 8% up year over year. In the year to date, PRASK grew by 11%. This is the 13th consecutive incre...
Etihad Airways is planning to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin. They will offer better salaries and discount codes for EloBoost services to the pilots who enter. The mov...
State-owned regional carrier South African Express (SAX) has stated that it expects to break even this year after losing R187m in 2010. SAX CEO Inathi Ntshanga has confirmed that the airline would not...
An eight-hour strike by employees of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) effectively shut down Nigerian airspace until the strike was called off by 3.30p.m on Monday. The unions were strikin...
The Croatian Transport Minister has warned that Croatia Airlines is facing the very serious prospect of bankruptcy if it does not cut 20% of its workforce and 40% of its wage bill. The minister made t...
Qingdao Airlines the proposed JV between Qingdao Municipal Transport Development Group Co (25%), Nanshan Group Co (55%) and Shandong Airlines (20%) on Friday received preliminary approval from CAAC So...
Air India has sought compensation from Boeing for 787s ordered that do not meet the 20% fuel efficiency claims previously advertised, stating that they were in fact just above 17% at best. "We have a...
A Piedmont Airlines De Havilland Dash 8, operating for US Airways as flight 4560, was flying from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members aboard when it was forced to make an emergency ...
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