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Lufthansa passengers are facing hundreds of possible flight cancellations after last-ditch talks to avert a strike by cabin crew collapsed early on Tuesday. A spokesman for Lufthansa said negotiations in a 13-month pay dispute with the UFO union ended without an agreement. UFO, which represents 18,000 Lufthansa flight attendants, declined to comment, but a [...]
AirAsia, Asia’s largest budget airline and a key Airbus customer, said it was bringing forward some aircraft deliveries as rising demand helps it to offset the high fuel costs ravaging the industry. While some full-service airlines such as Australia’s Qantas have been cancelling orders due to an uncertain global economic outlook, Malaysia-based AirAsia on [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron should agree to a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport to help drive economic growth, a senior Conservative politician said in an article published on Tuesday. Britain is trying to decide how to expand its airport system which is currently running at full capacity in the southeast of the [...]
South African industrial conglomerate Bidvest beat estimates posting a 27.5 percent rise in full-year profit, lifted by proceeds from the partial sale of its stake in Mumbai Airport. Bidvest, whose business include food distribution, auto dealerships and shipping, said diluted headline earnings per share totalled 1,470.8 cents in the year to end-June. Headline EPS, [...]
Airbus won a USD$7 billion order to help more than triple Philippine Airlines’ fleet, beating Boeing to a deal despite US support for Manila in a diplomatic dispute with China. For this stage of fleet expansion, the airline has ordered 10 long-haul A330-300s and 44 jets from the A321 family, with delivery starting in [...]
Airbus hopes to win orders to sell up to 100 A320 planes to China when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the country this week, industry sources said on Monday. The order, potentially worth around USD$9 billion, would be the first significant Airbus deal with China since a row between Beijing and the European Union [...]
The US will take a look at the rules governing which electronic devices passengers can use during flights to help airlines decide if they should allow wider use of the gadgets, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday. A group will be formed to study the testing methods airline operators use to decide which [...]
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it will commence scheduled thrice weekly flights to Kuala Lumpur on October 31, 2012, via Bangkok. Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and dubbed the Garden City of Lights, is renowned for its numerous tourist attractions, which include the [...]
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