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Ryanair is confident it can allay competition concerns about its latest bid for rival Aer Lingus, its chief executive said on Tuesday, adding the budget airline was also seeking no more than a 25 percent stake in London Stansted Airport. Ryanair launched its third offer in five years for Irish rival Aer Lingus in [...]
Airbus sees demand for 28,000 new aircraft worth USD$4 trillion to cater for air travel growth in the next 20 years, the European plane maker said on Tuesday. By 2031, the global passenger plane fleet will rise to over 32,550 aircraft from 15,500 today, Airbus said, adding that the Asia Pacific region would account [...]
Teen With Down Syndrome Kicked Off Flight A Southern Californian decided to splurge on first-class plane tickets for the first time but were denied entry onto the plane because their son has Down Syndrome, they claim. Joan and Robert Vanderhorst had flown without issue with their 16-year-old son Bede, who has Down Syndrome, at least [...]
Lufthansa said it would cancel 190 flights at its main hub, Frankfurt airport, on Tuesday due to a second round of strikes by cabin crew in a row over pay and conditions. Lufthansa said only a handful of long-haul flights would be impacted, while around half of short and medium-haul flights were cancelled. The [...]
Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume direct flights between their capital cities nearly five months after they were halted during a dispute over the status of South Sudanese living in the north, both sides said. The two countries have been at loggerheads over a variety of issues since South Sudan split away [...]
British engineering group GKN secured EU regulatory approval on Monday to purchase Volvo’s aerospace unit for GBP£633 million (USD$1.01 billion), to boost its presence in the fast-growing civil aircraft industry. GKN said when it unveiled the deal in July that the civil aviation sector is expected to almost double in size over the next [...]
Lufthansa passengers face further disruption after cabin crew representatives said late on Monday they would go on strike on Tuesday for 8 hours in Frankfurt and Berlin in a row over pay and conditions. The German cabin crew union UFO said it was calling on its members working at Lufthansa to go on strike [...]
Spacewalk Set For 7:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday International Space Station Expedition 32 Flight Engineers Sunita Williams of NASA and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will conduct a spacewalk Wednesday, Sept. 5 to attempt to complete installation of a spare power unit on the station’s truss. The spacewalkers will venture outside the [...]
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