Jet Airways India Ltd. has announced it will close its budget airline subsidiaries in a bid to return to profitability.According to Chairman Naresh Goyal, the airline will close its Jetlite and JetKon...
Tata SIA Airlines has announced that its New Delhi-based startup will be called “Vistara”, with the carrier scheduled to start operations in October.“‘Vistara’ is derived from a Sanskrit word and impl...
The management of Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) has informed its 19,755 employees that the airline’s impending restructuring will be far more comprehensive than previous efforts.In a meeting with re...
Air Arabia has reported its Q2 2014 results in which the Sharjah-based carrier reported a second-quarter net profit of AED173 million ($47 million), which is an increase of more than double compared t...
South African regional carrier Cemair has signed a deal to acquire 16 Bombardier CRJ200s from US airline Delta in order to expand both its domestic and international operations. The deal means Cemair...
Heathrow Airport Holdings (previously BAA) is to sell off its portfolio of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports.HAH has issued a statement which said that the Group was “formally entering a sale...
Lufthansa and its subsidiary Austrian Airlines have suspended flights to Irbil in Kurdish Northern Iraq until further notice.Lufthansa had previously suspended flights to Irbil last week due to safety...
Garuda Indonesia president director Emirsyah Satar has stated that he is ready to step down from the post.Satar said: "I have met with the company's major shareholders [the government] saying that my ...
Malaysia Airline System (MAS) shares rose as much as 10.4% on Monday after state fund Khazanah Nasional stated it will offer MYR0.27 per share for each share in MAS it does not already own, amounting ...
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries has reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for July 2014 compared to July 2013.Overall passenger traffic decreased by 1.4%, while capacity d...
An Air France aircraft, with 178 people aboard, made an emergency landing in Lagos on Sunday after a faulty indicator showed a nosewheel tyre pressure fault. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCA...
African LCC fastjet has announced its passenger statistics for July 2014. Fastjet’s operations in Tanzania carried a total of 52,839 passengers and achieved a load factor of 73%, representing a 69% in...
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