Emirates to add three flights to Basra
Emirates is planning to add three new flights from Dubai to Iraqi southern port city Basra from July. The move will increase the current service from four to seven flights a week to serve a growing nu...
Emirates is planning to add three new flights from Dubai to Iraqi southern port city Basra from July. The move will increase the current service from four to seven flights a week to serve a growing nu...
It has been reported that Aer Arann, owned by the UK distribution firm Stobart Group, will announce an order for several ATR 72s at the Farnborough Airshow. The airline currently operates four ATR 42-...
GECAS Services has posted pre-tax profits for 2011 of $11.3m – an increase of 82%. Revenues, which are based on management fees, rose by 18% from $67.8m to $79.9m during the same period. The firm paid...
Virgin Group, which owns Virgin Atlantic Airways, has confirmed that it has sold its 10% stake in AirAsia X to existing shareholders. “Virgin Group has a large number of new and exciting investment op...
Kingfisher Airlines is this week facing fresh renewed pressure from lenders and other companies with whom it finds itself indebted to. The difference this week from others before it is that lenders ar...
Hong Kong Airlines has taken delivery of its third A330-200 passenger aircraft to operate on its London Gatwick route. Each aircraft is configured with just 116 seats in an exclusive all Club Class of...
The Indonesia National Air Carriers Association has declared that Indonesia needs to accelerate its push to groom more pilots to cope with the expansion of the country's airlines. The Association fore...
Raymond L. Conner has been appointed as president and CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Conner, 57, a 34-year company veteran who began his career as an airplane mechanic, moves to the leadership post...
The US House of Representatives has voted to keep the Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes flights to isolated towns, intact and has granted a new budget of $214 million. Rep. Tom McClintoc...
Airport self-service kiosks are expected to be overtaken by smartphones, as airlines increasingly focus their IT spending on mobile technologies. “Adoption [of kiosks by passengers] is the problem,” S...
It has emerged that Japan Airlines (JAL) will benefit from a tax break from the government as it returns to profitability. JAL does not have to pay US$4.5 billion in taxes on future profits. All Nipp...
The chairman of AviancaTaca, former by the merger of Avianca and TACA, Roberto Kriete, has reported that the merger has created higher than expected synergies and that they had completed 70% and will ...
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