The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced that air passenger duty (APD) will be cut for passengers travelling on direct long-haul routes departing from airports in Northern Irela...
The cargo division of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), which is anticipating an additional rise in freight traffic due to the forthcoming football European Championships, has inaugurated new carg...
MTU Aero Engines will soon use finished parts made in China to manufacture commercial engine components. On September 22, MTU concluded a deal with Chinese company Xi’an Aero-Engine (XAE) for the supp...
HP has announced that Airbus has doubled its usable supercomputing power with containerized HP Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs). In the final phase of a four-year high-performance computing (H...
Russia carrier UTair Aviation has signed an order for 40 737 aircraft, comprised of seven 737-900ERs and 33 737-800s. The agreement was previously announced at the 2011 Paris Air Show. The order is va...
Tony Tyler, director general and chief executive of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned the airline industry of tough times ahead and described the slowdown in the European a...
The European Commission will grant airlines allowanced of 85% of their required carbon emission permits for free in 2012 under its emissions trading system (ETS). The following year the allowances wil...
Last week, 21 companies based in Ireland, wrote to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to explain the impact the loss of the Belfast to New York (Newark) route, operated by Continental Airlines, was in...
Cargolux Airlines has selected Pratt & Whitney for an Engine Management Program agreement providing on-wing engine health monitoring. Under the agreement, Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners will ...
Avolon has leased nine aircraft to Ryanair and AirAsia, two of the world’s leading low cost carriers. Avolon has also announced that it has increased its committed debt facilities by $600 million to $...
The row over company strategy between easyJet’s board and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has taken an unexpected turn, with its founder and largest shareholder telling the board yesterday that he “intends t...
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana has opened a new internationally approved engineering facility in Almaty. The facility is equipped to handle non-destructive testing and repairs to wheels, batteries and aircra...
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