Domestic airlines have been given a reprieve by the Indian civil aviation ministry, which has allowed them to continue to employ expat commanders and keep them on their rolls until 2013. Some 240 ...
Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd says it will add turbo prop aircraft to its fleet and expand to regional areas through a 10-year strategic alliance with the Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines. Virgin...
The airline confirmed it will offer three daily nonstop flights from Clovis, leaving the eastern New Mexico community each day at 8 a.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. A news release from the company says it wi...
Air Canada plans to appeal the decision of a federal court to pay $2million in court costs following its dispute with Porter Airlines over tarmac clots at Island Airport. Last summer Air Canada fi...
A Boeing 727 IranAir aircraft has crashed in a lake close to Orumieh airport in West Azerbaijan province. The aircraft, flying from Tehran to Orumieh, was unable to land at the airport due to sever...
Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary has made good on his promise and cut all operations in Marseille – its only base in France. O’Leary has been in a long run battle with the French authorities over contra...
Virgin Atlantic is to withhold some landing fees from Heathrow because of the chaos caused by the airport's shutdown last month. Sir Richard Branson's airline said it is not going to pay landing and ...
A Qantas 767 aircraft bound to Sydney was forced to return to Melbourne due to a suspected wing flap problem. When the problem could not be immediately rectified, passengers were forced to disembark. ...
Goh Choon Phong, the new CEO of Singapore Airlines, has stated the airline is considering selling its 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic. The outgoing CEO Chew Choon Seng called SIA’s investment “underperfo...
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is planning to set up its first regional hub in Turkey in order present an expanded global network to better compete with Gulf-based carriers. To this end, PIA ha...
The Air Transport Association of America’s (ATA) quarterly Airline Cost Index, shows costs faced by US passenger airlines rose 5% to 209.8 in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period of 2...
WestJet Airlines December load factor fell to 80.3% from 81.7% in December 2009, however traffic, or revenue passenger miles, increased by 10.9% percent in December, and capacity, or available seat mi...
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