The Indian civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi has stated that Air India will reinstate pilots sacked after starting the strike. The striking pilots maintain that all they need to come back to work i...
Chinese aircraft maker Aviation Industry Corp has sold CNY5 billion ($769.1 million) worth of bonds on the interbank market via private placement. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China was underwriter...
From May 21, Delta Air Lines will offer five more destinations in Australia and New Zealand after expanding a deal with the Virgin Blue Airlines Group. Under the code-sharing agreement, customers who ...
Korean Air has placed a firm order with Airbus for five A330-200s. The deal tales the total numbers of A330s ordered by the airline to 30, of which 23 have already been delivered. As with the existing...
Two auditors that were fired by Boeing for leaking information about Boeing’s compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (Sox) to the press have failed in their bid to claim whistleblowing protection as an appeal...
WestJet Airlines first-quarter earnings have beaten analyst estimates. The low cost carrier posted a first-quarter profit of C$48.2 million or 34 Canadian cents a share. This is well ahead of a restat...
Oman Air has adopted SITA’s software solution for fares management, Airfare Insight, in a seven-year contract. Oman Air is the fifth Middle Eastern airline to do so. The new system analyses fares and ...
Commenting on the discovery of the black box recorder of the Air France Airbus aircraft that crashed into the sea off Brazil, Tom Enders, Airbus president and CEO said: "We are excited by the news and...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) scheduled international traffic results for March 2011 showing that year-on-year growth in passenger demand had slowed to 3.8% from the 5.8% recorded...
Boeing has started 787 Dreamliner pilot training with launch customer ANA (All Nippon Airways). Ten pilots from ANA began the training program with classroom instructions in Tokyo earlier this month. ...
The Thai government has given Thai Airways the right to decide how it acquires aircraft. Previously the airline could only acquire aircraft under the direction of Thailand’s Transport Ministry, which ...
The US DoJ yesterday confirmed that it has approved Southwest Airlines’ acquisition of AirTran Airways, clearing the way for a closing date of 2nd May 2011. DOJ’s antitrust division said in a statemen...
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