Air Zimbabwe cancelled several flights yesterday, including the Harare-London and Harare-Johannesburg flights, due to its failure to pay for fuel. Suppliers are reportedly owed in excess of $1.6 milli...
Danish airline Cimber Sterling is reported to be finalising a DKK165 million ($31.28 million) deal with a Ukrainian billionaire to help create a regional Nordic airline. Cimber confirmed it had agreed...
Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic Airways, has stated that he is still considering whether to sell part of his 51% stake in the 25-year old airline. However, he admitted that he will alway...
EasyJet has announced it will begin flights from London Southend airport in April 2012 in time to serve passengers travelling to the London Olympics. The low cost UK carrier expects to carry around 80...
Russia’s deputy transport minister said yesterday that it is ready to start relaxing its opposition to recognizing the whole 27-country bloc as one "nationality" for airlines, rather than the traditio...
Hong Kong-based leasing company, ANI Group Holdings, has signed a preliminary deal with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp, to sell five of its new MRJ regional jets to a firm serving Indonesian airlines. The d...
Qantas and Virgin Australia were forced to cancel up to 200 flights from Perth airport as the ash cloud from the Chilean Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcano crossed the southwest corner of the country. The ...
Boeing announced today it will increase the production rate for its Next-Generation 737 to 42 airplanes per month. Once implemented in the first half of 2014, the 737 program expects to build on avera...
US Airways has reached a tentative agreement on a new, four-year collective bargaining agreement with the Transport Workers Union (TWU) that represents the airline’s 164 flight dispatchers. “This tent...
Stefan Pichler, CEO of low-fare carrier Jazeera Airways, said he expects the airline to continue its growth and profitability for the rest of the year and that it is well on the way to “sustainable pr...
Peter Baumgartner, chief commercial officer for Etihad Airways stated that the airline was on track to break even by the end of 2011. Etihad posted an EBITDA figure last year and fully expects to brea...
Ethiopian Airlines has resumed flights to Djibouti after two days of disruption due to ash erupting from the Dubbi volcano in southern Eritrea. However, many other flights to Northern Ethiopia and Kha...
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