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Air Canada and Aveos have reached an agreement that will help facilitate a sale of some assets of the bankrupt aircraft maintenance firm, and the airline promised to offer some service contracts to a buyer of the Aveos assets. Aveos Fleet Performance, once the airline’s maintenance division, halted operations in March and laid off [...]
US Senate lawmakers and the Obama administration stiffened their opposition to a European law that targets emissions from commercial airliners and applied new pressure on Brussels and the United Nations to resolve global concerns. In a rare display of election-year bipartisanship, Democrat and Republican members of the Commerce Committee and the administration’s top transportation [...]
Airbus said its total gross aircraft orders stood at 149 from January to May, helped by a contract recently signed with Air Lease for 36 planes. Adjusted for cancellations, net orders for the year to May stood at 132 passenger jets. Airbus delivered 228 aircraft in the January-May period, including eight superjumbo A380s, the [...]
The plane that crashed in Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board in Nigeria’s worst airline disaster for two decades, reported dual engine failure just before going down, the aviation minister said on Wednesday. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by privately owned domestic airline Dana Air, crashed into an apartment block in [...]
Air Canada said on Wednesday that it flew slightly emptier planes in May, a month after wildcat strikes by pilots and machinists disrupted operations. It said its load factor dipped to 81.6 percent from 82.2 percent in May 2011. System traffic increased 1.8 percent as capacity rose 2.5 percent. The lower load factor contrasts [...]
Emirates offers special fares deals in fight for market share Emirates Kampala office has yesterday launched a range of attractive market fares, reducing by up to 48 percent the cost previously paid for by travelers, when a new aggressive sales campaign was started by the airline, lasting till Sunday this week with travel valid [...]
Because of the strike among the security guards at Oslo Airport, the capacity at security control is reduced. We expect queues in the departures hall Thursday morning. We encourage passengers to meet up well in advance of their departure. Fast track will not be available to passengers as long at the strike is in [...]
Kenya’s main airport in Nairobi reopened after several hours of closure Wednesday, after an aircraft veered off the runway, causing no casualties but forcing flights to divert, officials said. “Everything is back to normal, the plane has been removed from the runway,” said airport police official Joseph Ngisa. Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta airport is the biggest in the region and [...]
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