Africa World Airlines Limited (AWAL), run by a team of Ghanaian and Chinese investors, will begin operating passenger and cargo services within Ghana and West Africa in mid-2011. The airline will begi...
Swiss airline SkyWork Airlines has launched direct flights from London City Airport to Bern. The route will operate Sunday to Friday every evening from 27 March, with frequency doubling from September...
Turkish Airlines has signed a firm order for 10 Airbus A321-200ss and three A330-200F freighter aircraft. THY already has another 27 aircraft on order with Airbus from contracts placed in 2009 and 201...
Airbus yesterday projected that Asia/Pacific airlines will take delivery of around 8,560 new aircraft valued at $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years, representing 33% of new aircraft deliveries worldw...
China Eastern Airlines (CEA) plans to expand its fleet to 745 (adding 250 aircraft). CEA Chairman Liu Shaoyong told reporters in Beijing yesterday that by 2015 the fleet will total 588 units comprisin...
Etihad Airways and Engine Alliance say they have finalized an agreement for GP7200 engines to power the carrier’s fleet of 10 Airbus A380s due to start delivery in 2012. The deal includes a long-term ...
Ukraine International Airlines has reached a codeshare agreement with bmi under which bmi will use its code on Ukraine’s Kiev Boryspil daily service to English airports and Brussels International. ...
As confirmed by Willie Walsh to Airline Economics in January, Iberia, which merged with British Airways into International Airlines Group in January, has said it reached agreement with Airbus to order...
Air China has confirmed it plans to introduce more than 30 new aircraft this year due to demand with up to ten of the new aircraft being large wide body types. All will be directed to the Shanghai mar...
Air Canada’s passenger levels for February dipped 2.5 percentage points to 75.9, which the airline is quick to point out that its aircraft were fuller last year due to the Vancouver Winter Olympics. “...
NetJets subsidiary Executive Jet Management has received US FAA approval to use an Apple iPad App from Jeppesen as a portable electronic flight bag (EFB). This approval sets a precedent that other bus...
Buoyed by the general unrest in the Middle East, about 100 employees of Oman Air have staged a protest in front of the company’s headquarters near the country’s main international airport in the capit...
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