A disabled woman successfully sued Ryanair yesterday after her husband was forced to carry her onto a flight using a fireman’s lift. Wheelchair-bound Jo Heath, 57, who suffers from multiple sclerosis,...
The UK is to defer a European-ordered partial lifting of restrictions on the carrying of liquids in airline hand luggage on security grounds. The lifting of the restrictions, which would only apply to...
AWAS has delivered an A330-200 to Garuda Indonesia Airlines. After an over ten year hiatus this marks the revitalization of a strong partnership between AWAS and Garuda. “This new A330 from AWAS will ...
BMi Baby the UK regional, currently runs 30 flights a week from Cardiff but yesterday announced it would halt all flights as of October 30. An announcement stated: “In the current economic climate it ...
Hopes of an end to the long running British Airways cabin crew dispute have risen after union leaders held back from calling fresh strikes to allow peace talks to continue. Members of Unite voted last...
Turkish Airlines and Amadeus, travel technology partner and transaction processor, have signed a three-year full content agreement that guarantees all travel agents worldwide, outside Turkey, access t...
In the first three months of this year, MTU’s Maintenance signed new contracts worth around €400 million. One of the largest awarded was by Atlas Air. The US carrier had started to send the CF6-50 and...
BAE Systems is now offering its new Attendant Control Panel touch-screen display system for cabin upgrades as an aftermarket retrofit solution for all commercial aircraft models. The modernized Attend...
SAS has earlier communicated the decision to phase out the MD80 and Boeing 737 Classic on the bases in Stockholm and Oslo and replace them with Boeing 737 NGs. As a consequence SAS has signed an agre...
According to the pilots union, BALPA, there is a growing problem of fatigue among flight crew. It has have voiced concern that this will worsen under EU proposals to increase flying hours from 900 hou...
Air transport IT specialist, SITA, today announced an ambitious programme to build a community cloud dedicated to the air transport industry (ATI) that will improve efficiencies and reduce costs. The ...
Russian carrier UTair and regional turboprop manufacturer ATR today announced the signature of a contract for the purchase of 20 ATR 72-500s. The announcement of the deal, valued at US $ 426 million, ...
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