Former F1 champion Niki Lauda, founder and former owner of Niki, the low-cost airline, has joined forces with Condor, Thomas Cook’s German airline, to bid approximately €100 million (US$120.00) for 38 Air Berlin leased aircraft. Bids for the insolvent low-cost carrier have to be submitted by this Friday, after which a decision will be made
easyJet has launched ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ – the first global airline connections service by a European low fares airline. Legacy airlines have traditionally offered connectivity through costly and complex interline and codeshare agreements and procedures – with ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ these will be replicated by self-connect and sales partnerships through a digital, virtual hub which
All Cargolux flights to and from Dubai World Central (DWC) are handled by Emirates SkyCargo since early September 2017. This move follows the cooperation agreement that the Luxembourg-based carrier signed with Emirates SkyCargo in May 2017. Emirates’ cargo flights to Luxembourg are already handled by Cargolux’s partner Luxair Cargo. Customers benefit from Cargolux’s move in
Allegheny County Airport Authority has approved details of the modernization plan for the 25-year-old Pittsburgh International Airport, which will include a new landside terminal and elimination of the tram system. Details of the plan were unveiled September 12. The funding will be nontaxpayer based and instead sourced through airport revenue on both airline and passenger
The H145 simulator at the Airbus Helicopters Training Academy in Germany has been awarded level D status by the German Federal Aviation Office – the highest possible certification for a full flight simulator. With such airworthiness authority approval, more training hours accumulated by pilots in the full flight simulator are now authorized to be logged
EDM has reported that the E170 Door Trainer it has manufactured for S7 Airlines passed its Factory Acceptance Test (FAT). Designed and built at EDM’s facility in Manchester, UK, the Embraer E170 Door Trainer will enable S7 Airline’s cabin crew to be comprehensively trained in the operation of this aircraft door type under all normal,
In what has been seen as a wildcat strike, 200 Air Berlin pilots called in sick on September 12, at short notice, forcing the insolvent carrier to cancel over 100 flights, resulting in chaos at many German airports and the cancellation of a number of trans-Atlantic flights. With the ailing carrier presently up for sale,
Pilots of the Denver-based airline, Frontier, have voted unanimously to taking the first step towards going on strike at a critical time for the carrier. Frontier is in the middle of a substantial national expansion and is making preparations for a public stock offering. Represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, frontier pilots voted to
The first UK pilots’ strike since 1974 has seen Thomas Cook pilots go on strike for 12 hours, starting at 3am September 8th. Members of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) failed to see their demands for a pay rise met for the tour operator’s pilots, who then walked out of the negotiations. Thomas Cook
Qantas pilots and GE Aviation have developed a new flight data application (app), FlightPulse, that provides pilots with data to help them fly more efficiently and help reduce carbon emissions. FlightPulse, the first fully commercialized product to be developed with mobile services from GE’s Predix platform, uses recorded aircraft data and smart analytics to enable
