AFRAA NEW SECRETARY GENERAL ASSUMES OFFICE
The new Secretary General of the Nairobi based African Airlines Association (AFRAA), Dr Elijah Chingosho assumed office on January 1, 2011 after a brief handing over ceremony at the organisation’s ...
The new Secretary General of the Nairobi based African Airlines Association (AFRAA), Dr Elijah Chingosho assumed office on January 1, 2011 after a brief handing over ceremony at the organisation’s ...
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia was this week appointed to the new board of directors of Ethiopian Airlines. The national flag carrier is 100% owned by the government of Ethiopia. At a fa...
The UK Department of Transportation was seeking to push through legislation making airports liable for multimillion-pound fines for significant delays caused by snow as seen in December 2010. Howev...
The Russian Federal Service for Transport Supervision (Rostransnadzor) has recommended all Russian airlines temporarily refrain from the use of Tu-154 B aircraft. The crash of the aircraft type at S...
The families of the three people who died in the Surgut air crash on Saturday are to receive RUB2 million in insurance payments. One of the engines on the Tupolev-154B aircraft operated by regional ...
Pakistan-based scheduled airline airblue has taken delivery of two A319s from Dublin-based lessor AWAS. Tariq Chaudhary, chief executive officer of airblue, says: “The addition of these 2008 vintage...
Shares in SAS rose to the highest price in eight weeks after a Danish newspaper reported that Air France-KLM Group, Deutsche Lufthansa and British Airways would be ready to enter a bidding war over...
Turkish Airlines (THY) chairman Hamdi Topcu has stated that the airline is aiming to operate 180-200 aircraft by the end of 2011, and is targeting 27% growth and $8 billion revenue. The target seem...
Qantas has confirmed it is planning to build a biofuel plant in Sydney that will burn rubbish in an effort to power the airline's fleet with greener fuel. Qantas has joined with US fuel supplier So...
The Government of the Maldives has delivered the Air Operating Certificate (AOC) to Mega Maldives, a joint venture between Maldives ZM Holdings and US W-Cap. Mega Maldives will start flights from ...
Dave Barger, president and CEO of JetBlue Airways, has extended his current contract for another three years. Barger joined JetBlue in 1998, two years before its first flight, and succeeded founder ...
Airline worker unions, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), have been told they have grounds to sue Delta over its...
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