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Finnish union Pro said about 1,000 employees working at Finnair’s technical services had started a week-long strike as a protest against the plan to cut 280 jobs and to outsource engine services to Switzerland’s SR Technics. The union said the strike, due to end on June 13, would impact all technical services provided for [...]
Air India is expected to take delivery of three 787 Dreamliner aircraft from Boeing this month, India’s civil aviation minister Ajit Singh said, after the two companies agreed on a compensation package for the delayed order. The loss-making state-owned carrier was supposed to receive the first of 27 Dreamliners by the end of May. [...]
A solar energy plane has landed in Morocco, completing the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun to show the potential for pollution-free air travel. The Solar Impulse took off from Madrid at 0322 GMT on Tuesday and landed at Rabat Airport after a 19-hour flight. Shortly before Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard landed [...]
Boston’s Logan Airport will become the first major airport in the United States to offer free transportation to downtown in an effort to cut car travel and alleviate a parking shortage at the fourth-busiest passenger hub in the Northeast. The three-month pilot programme beginning Wednesday will waive the USD$2 fare on the Massachusetts Bay [...]
Nigeria’s government has suspended the air license of Dana Air, two days after 153 people died in the country’s worst airline disaster for 20 years, the aviation ministry said on Tuesday. Dana Air said the plane had experienced no mechanical faults prior to it crashing into an apartment building in Nigeria’s commercial hub of [...]
Regional jet maker Embraer faces order deferrals by some customers in Europe but has not yet been hit with cancellations despite the region’s debt crisis, the head of the Brazilian company’s commercial division said on Tuesday. However it expects demand to pick up in the United States as airlines make long-awaited decisions to renew [...]
WestJet Airlines said on Tuesday that reservations for the approaching summer months looked strong as Canada’s second-biggest carrier reported that it flew fuller planes in May than a year earlier. WestJet said its load factor rose to 79.2 percent from 74.8 percent in May 2011 as a 7.2 percent increase in traffic dwarfed a [...]
Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi’s flag carrier which is on an expansion spree, said it has acquired a 4 percent stake in Virgin Australia through the stock market, deepening its alliance with the Australian airline. The stake has been bought through market purchases in recent weeks, Etihad said in a statement on Tuesday. The airline [...]
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