Southwest Airlines and its pilots' union, Airlines Pilots' Association, have agreed a deal to allow the carrier to operate the 737-800. The agreement, which is still subject to vote, will pay Southwes...
Egypt Air is enhancing the frequency of its four-a-week services from the Cairo to Mumbai from November. “We will be enhancing our flight frequency from Mumbai,” says Ahmed Wasfy, general manager of E...
Russian airline, Donavia, formerly Aeroflot-Don, reported it handled 1,153,600 people in the nine-month period of 2010, representing a 21.6% increase over the same period in 2009. Year to date passeng...
French airline Aigle Azur has announced plans to fly direct commercial flights from Paris to Baghdad. The inaugural flight, the first for 20 years, begins on October 30 and two weeks later the the reg...
Latvian airline airBaltic reported a 16% increase in passenger figures for the month of September. The airline, which flies from Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, carried 318,807 passengers last month and 2,...
Aer Lingus has forecast an operating profit of €29 million for 2010 after posting strong passenger figures for September. The Irish airline, which made an operating loss of €81 million in 2009, report...
An Iran Air Airbus A300-600 on route to Tehran from Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Vienna for unknown reason. The aircraft aborted take off from Vienna’s airport due to an engine problem, whic...
Hong Kong Airlines has firmed up an order for a further 10 A330-200s made at the Farnborough airshow and has converted an existing order for 15 A330s to the A350 XWB. Deliveries of the A330-200s will ...
China Eastern Airlines passenger numbers rose 62.62% over the 12 months to September 2010. The airline carried 81.93 million passengers, with cargo and mail turnover up 49.7% to 3.68 million tons in t...
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has announced plans to double its flights to Japan. The airline already flies twice a day to Tokyo's Narita Airport, but it plans to launch two flights a day to Tokyo's other ...
Passenger numbers for low-cost airlines IndiGo and SpiceJet has risen thanks to a doubling of bookings from corporate passengers. Numbers have risen by 16% in the last two years as businesses try to k...
Jetstar has announced a partnership with American Airlines to share domestic New Zealand services. It is hoped the arrangement will boost the domestic market with inbound flights from the US. The new ...
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