IAG buys BMI
IAG has made a binding agreement to buy BMI for £172.5m in cash. "Buying BMI’s mainline business gives IAG a unique opportunity to grow at Heathrow, one of our key hub airports," said Willie Walsh, ch...
IAG has made a binding agreement to buy BMI for £172.5m in cash. "Buying BMI’s mainline business gives IAG a unique opportunity to grow at Heathrow, one of our key hub airports," said Willie Walsh, ch...
London City Airport has confirmed that it is not talking with the new all-business start-up airline Odyssey Airlines that was identified as ordering 10 C Series aircraft in June in order to fly non-st...
Air France has closed an export credit agency-backed financing for one A380 (msn 64). The ECA-deal is combined with a French tax lease. The initial delivery took place in June 2011 when Credit Agricol...
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg will rule today on a challenge by US airlines against the legality of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme. The ruling comes just 10 days before th...
Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana, one half of International Consolidated Airlines Group, plans to cancel 118, or 36%, of its flights on December 29 due to industrial action by its pilots. ...
Russian carrier Transaero Airlines has acquired two 777-300s from Singapore Airlines. Transaero is the first and only Russian carrier to operate this type of aircraft. The new aircraft are being used ...
Turkish Airlines (THY) is adding 10 new destinations in 2012. The airline will also add 18 new aircraft to its 178-strong fleet. Temel Kotil, THY general manager, said: “The new destinations to be add...
Airbus delivered its 7,000th aircraft, an A321, to United States-based US Airways. This milestone comes just two years after the delivery of Airbus’ 6,000th aircraft has delivered in early 2010, highl...
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood have penned a letter to European officials dated December 16 that urges the European Union to reconsider the including...
EU antitrust regulators raided Brussels Airlines and TAP Portugal offices in connection with an investigation that the carriers may have colluded illegally to sell seats on competing routes. "The Comm...
EasyJet is claiming it is now the UK's largest ski airline following the expansion of capacity on services to Geneva, Grenoble, Lyon, Innsbruck and Salzburg between December 2011 and March 2012. The a...
Reuters has reported that a new airline Odyssey of Europe is an undisclosed customer for Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft. Bombardier announced two separate orders, both for 10 CS100s, from unidentified ...
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