Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has indicated that the airline is still considering Singapore as the base for a premium carrier in Asia even though JV talks with Malaysian Airlines collapsed last mo...
Kuwait's cabinet has approved an amended draft law that will allow Kuwait Airways to be privatized within three years. The new draft law allows the government to offer a 35% stake in the airline to co...
Starbow has taken delivery of another BAe 146 aircraft to bring its fleet to three. One more aircraft is due to be delivered before the end of this month. According to Archibald Kittoe, a Senior Marke...
An Athens court has sentences three executives of a defunct Cypriot airline Helios Airways and a British engineer to 10 years in prison due to their role in the fatal crash of Helios Airways Boeing 73...
German airline Lufthansa has stated that it could not rule out compulsory redundancies as part of its cost cutting drive. The airline is seeking to improve profits by €1.5 billion so some cuts are lik...
Chief Executive of Air France-KLM Jean-Cyril Spinetta indicated in a recent newspaper article that the airline group was considering a low-cost Air France airline under the umbrella brand of KLM's exi...
Cathay Pacific Airways has warned that it may have to park aircraft because of weakening demand and rising fuel costs. Hong Kong-based Cathay has confirmed that revenue has been falling short of targe...
Malaysian airline MASwings is planning to operate routes to Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, both in Sabah in Eastern Malaysia, from Davao operations later this year or early next year. CEO Dato’ Capt Mohd...
Although Bombardier was considered to be the favourite option to provide WestJet Airlines’ new regional fleet, ATR is making a convincing argument that while fuel costs remain high, its turboprops are...
American Airlines is planning to cut 1,200 airport baggage and cargo roles as part of its bankruptcy restructuring plan. An Arizona reservations centre will also be closed in a bid to cut $1.25 billio...
On 17 April Delta Air Lines increase its one-way prices by $5 to $10. The move, in common with past four fare rises this year, is expected to provoke a broad-based fare increase. Indeed United Airline...
Lufthansa is planning to transfer the BMI British Midland’s pension scheme to the UK’s Pension Protection Fund, the UK government-mandated, private sector-financed insurance scheme for underfunded pen...
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