The International Air Transport Association has suspended Air Zimbabwe from international financial and flight booking services. In a statement issued yesterday, IATA ordered travel agents to ‘immedia...
The European Commission was tasked to give a verdict on the Maltese government’s rescue plan for its troubled national airline, Air Malta, by 15 May. However yesterday talks between the government and...
Airbus parent EADS has reported a €12 million ($17.1 million) first-quarter net loss, a sharp turnaround from the €103 million net profit it posted in the same period last year. However, the company w...
Air India has re-appointed another tainted officer, this time executive director P Eswarchandran, who is the subject of a central vigilance commission (CVC) report on how he wasted crores on its hotel...
Budget airline Jetstar Pacific and private carrier Air Mekong has increased their prices after the transport ministry approved a 22.7% increase in domestic airfares. Ta Huu Thanh, deputy general direc...
Jet Airways plans to amalgamate its low-fare operations under the Jet Konnect brand. The JetLite brand, the rebraded Air Sahara bought in April 2007, will be phased out completely, although no deadlin...
Revenue passenger miles for Southwest Airlines were 7 billion in April, an 8.7% increase from the 6.5 billion total in April 2010. The airline also reported 8.8 billion available seat miles during Apr...
Attempts to revive Mexicana de Aviacion from bankruptcy protection are looking unlikely to succeed as subsequent bids fail. The airline’s current bankruptcy protection ends on June 30 – this has alrea...
Enrique Dupuy, the finance chief of International Airlines Group (IAG), formed by the merger of British Airways and Iberia, has indicated that the two airlines plan to order aircraft together in a bid...
Ryanair has met with officials from the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China to discuss future aircraft orders. Howard Millar, finance director of Ryanair, said: “We have no plans for any future a...
UK low cost carrier easyJet has posted a pre-tax loss of £153 million. The fuel cost increase accounts for £43 million and increased passenger taxation accounts for £21 million of the £74 million incr...
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti has closed a new licence agreement for its domestic services with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. The deal is expected to last beyond ten years. Und...
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