Some 150 airline pilots from United marched on United Continental Holding’s headquarters in downtown Chicago yesterday protesting slow-going negotiations over a new contract. United pilots have been i...
SkyWest, parent of regionals SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet, has posted a net loss of $682,000 for the first quarter of 2012. The airline group posted a net loss of $11.1 million in the same period l...
Air Canada's load factor rose to 83% in April compared to 81.9% in the same period last year. Traffic only increase by 1% despite a 0.3% drop in capacity. WestJet Airlines load factor was also up to 8...
Passenger traffic at Alaska Airlines for the month of April rose by 6.3%, which raised the occupancy of its aircraft to 87.4%. Capacity rose by 3.1%. During the first four months of the year, Alaska A...
The City of London county court has awarded a family who experienced severe disruption to their journey home caused by the closure of the EU airspace due to volcanic ash in April 2010, the right to ab...
The Russian aviation regulator has approved Transaero Airline to operate scheduled flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Rome and Milan. Although it requested 14 flights per week, the airline has ...
Iberia is testing a telemetry system for refueling fuel trucks at Madrid-Barajas Airport T4, which monitors engine running time and distance travelled to give a real-time basis for computing fuel cons...
Credit Agricole – Corporate Investment Bank (CA-CIB) has closed successfully a new export credit facility for Air France in relation to the financing of the airline’s seventh A380 (msn 99, reg. F-HPJH...
Turkish Airlines (THY) is planning to launch four weekly flights from Istanbul Ataturk airport to Edinburgh from July 16. The airline will also begin to fly from Istanbul to Kigali and Entebbe three t...
New owner International Airlines Group has opened up discussions with unions following the announcement that low fare carrier bmibaby is to close later in September. IAG has failed to find a new owner...
Aer Lingus reduced its first-quarter operating loss by almost one-third, to €36.1 million compared to a loss of €53.7 million for the same period last year. Total first-quarter revenue was up 15.4% du...
Air France-KLM has reported a worse than expected operating loss of €597m for the first quarter of 2012 and as a result has warned of a higher than expected operating loss for the first half. Reporte...
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