Unions and Air Malta’s management are expected to meet on Thursday to discuss retirement and redundancy schemes aiming to shed 511 employees as part of the airline’s survival plan. However, the Genera...
LOT Polish Airlines has revealed it expects to take delivery of its first 787 in the second quarter of 2012. Three more are to follow by the end of next year. The airline has plans to begin training i...
Thomas Cook Airlines has taken six new Airbus A321-200s on long-term lease agreements with Air Lease Corporation (ALC). The A321-200s, from ALC’s existing orderbook with Airbus, are equipped with CFM5...
AMS AIRCRAFT LIMITED (AMS) has been mandated as exclusive remarketing agent by easyJet (United Kingdom) for the sale of two Airbus A319-111 aircraft, serial numbers 2884 and 2959. The aircraft were ma...
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet, has requested Michael Rake, chairman of the airline, to reduce the number of aircraft it owns and to ask for Sir David Michels to step down from the board...
Air Asia is planning to move its London route from Stansted to Gatwick Airport in October. The airline credited “irresistible” rates offered by Gatwick for the use of its runways and facilities for th...
Romanian airline Tarom has incurred a net loss of €80 million ($113 million) in 2010. This figure is 41.6% worse than its 2009 deficit. Full-year revenue was €306 million; while the airline carried 2....
Deutsche Lufthansa will begin biofuel-powered flights on Friday, some three months later than planned. The delay was caused by a longer-than-expected wait for authorisation. The first biofuel flight, ...
As part of its revised business model, Air France plans to deploy A320s from several regional bases on point-to-point short- and medium-haul routes in a bid to compete with low-cost carriers. It also ...
Aeroflot chief executive Vitaly Savelyev has advised Russia not to sell its 51% stake in the airline until 2014 or after its planned merger with other state aviation assets. The sale was announced las...
Air Malta has filed a judicial protest against the Association of Airline Pilots (ALPA) who is spearheading the impending strike by Air Malta pilots. The airline has warned that if it is grounded beca...
The UK Civil Aviation Authority instructed Gatwick Airport to implement a more transparent and non-discriminatory pricing structure for check-in and baggage processing by April 2012 and consult its us...
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