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Rockwell Collins Skybox™ cabin solution has been selected for aftermarket installation by European-based Dassault Falcon Services Le Bourget on a Falcon 2000EX. In addition, the aircraft will be equip...

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) has delivered a new Boeing 737-800 to Virgin Australia. This aircraft is the first of three new 737-800s ILFC is scheduled to deliver to Virgin Australia...

GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes preliminary air traffic figures for April 2013 measured in PRASK rose by 8% up year over year. In the year to date, PRASK grew by 11%. This is the 13th consecutive incre...

Etihad Airways is planning to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin. They will offer better salaries and discount codes for EloBoost services to the pilots who enter. The mov...

State-owned regional carrier South African Express (SAX) has stated that it expects to break even this year after losing R187m in 2010. SAX CEO Inathi Ntshanga has confirmed that the airline would not...

An eight-hour strike by employees of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) effectively shut down Nigerian airspace until the strike was called off by 3.30p.m on Monday. The unions were strikin...

A Flybe de Havilland Dash 8-400 on behalf of Brussels Airlines enroute from Edinburgh to Belgium was forced to divert to Birmingham Airport for an emergency landing when the crew reported a hydraulic ...

The Croatian Transport Minister has warned that Croatia Airlines is facing the very serious prospect of bankruptcy if it does not cut 20% of its workforce and 40% of its wage bill. The minister made t...

US Airways Group has launched a $400million unsecured note offering. The senior notes are structured as a five-year bullet similar to the recent United Airways deal. This launch comes off the back of...

Virgin Australia has appointed top sales executive Judith Crompton to the newly-created role of chief commercial officer, with responsibility for alliances, network, revenue management and sales over ...

Qingdao Airlines the proposed JV between Qingdao Municipal Transport Development Group Co (25%), Nanshan Group Co (55%) and Shandong Airlines (20%) on Friday received preliminary approval from CAAC So...

Air India has sought compensation from Boeing for 787s ordered that do not meet the 20% fuel efficiency claims previously advertised, stating that they were in fact just above 17% at best. "We have a...