A Qantas 767 aircraft bound to Sydney was forced to return to Melbourne due to a suspected wing flap problem. When the problem could not be immediately rectified, passengers were forced to disembark. ...
Goh Choon Phong, the new CEO of Singapore Airlines, has stated the airline is considering selling its 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic. The outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng called SIA’s investment “underperfo...
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is planning to set up its first regional hub in Turkey in order present an expanded global network to better compete with Gulf-based carriers. To this end, PIA ha...
The Air Transport Association of America’s (ATA) quarterly Airline Cost Index, shows costs faced by US passenger airlines rose 5% to 209.8 in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period of 2...
WestJet Airlines December load factor fell to 80.3% from 81.7% in December 2009, however traffic, or revenue passenger miles, increased by 10.9% percent in December, and capacity, or available seat mi...
Southwest Airlines has initiated the first overhaul of its frequent-flier program for 23 years. The airline has added rewards with no black-out dates and redemptions for international flights on other...
Velvet Sky a new airline flying between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg is expected to start flights in 2011. Its website states that “the countdown has begun” and has been advertising pilot vacanc...
Ryanair carried five million passengers in December 2010 taking its annual tally to 72.7 million. Even though the Irish low cost carrier was also affected by the snow disruption, it posted a 2% rise o...
British Airways has confirmed it will buy Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine for the 12 A380s it has on order. The announcement has been shot in the arm for Rolls-Royce, with shares in the UK engine maker’s...
British Airways has disclosed that the disruption to airports in the UK caused by heavy snowfall has cost it £50 million. Every day London Heathrow was closed due to snow, cost the airline £10 million...
Qantas has been given the all clear by engine manufactuer Rolls-Royce to operate its A380 aircraft at full payload on the Los Angeles route. But according to the airline it has yet to begin talks with...
Vijaya Mallya-owned Kingfisher Airlines is facing a shortage of pilots as it increases services as swaths of them have left and joined other carriers during the last two years as services were cut bac...
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