WestJet has entered into a code-share agreement with British Airways, enabling British Airways to market and sell WestJet-operated flights. Starting September 24th, the “BA” code will be placed on select WestJet flights connecting from Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto to Ottawa, Edmonton, and Victoria. This is the eighth code-share agreement for WestJet. Since September 2011, WestJet
Air Canada said that it will hire more than 900 employees over the next 12 months to meet its planned workforce requirements. In addition, 200 new jobs will be created for flight attendants and pilots at the airline’s low cost carrier that will be launched in 2013. “Air Canada is undertaking a selective hiring process
Lufthansa has announced plans to build a modern logistics centre at Frankfurt Airport. At its meeting today, the Lufthansa Group Supervisory Board approved the investment in the necessary infrastructure for Lufthansa’s cargo business. The building, which will replace the existing over 30-year-old Lufthansa Cargo Center, is due to go into operation in 2018. The new
Delta Air Lines is adding new, on-demand entertainment options to its fleet of more than 950 two-class Delta and Delta Connection aircraft, the world’s largest fleet of Wi-Fi equipped planes. The Delta Connect Wi-Fi portal will allow customers to stream television and movie options directly to their laptop or tablet while in flight. Streamed content
Air New Zealand will be the first customer for Panasonic Avionics Corporation’s (Panasonic) lowest power and lightest weight in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) system – eXLite. Air New Zealand CEO, Rob Fyfe says, “Following a thorough review of all solutions available in the market for our 777-200s, we challenged Panasonic to come up with a
Etihad Airways is keen to expand its footprint in South America, said President and Chief Executive Officer, James Hogan. Mr Hogan said that the airline is currently in discussions with South American-based carriers about potential commercial partnerships. Etihad Airways currently has 38 codeshare partnerships with airlines around the globe, resulting in a combined network of
Lufthansa direct European services, which include all German domestic and European services outside of the Lufthansa Frankfurt and Munich hubs, will be merged commercially and organisationally with Germanwings, to form one company on the basis of Germanwings GmbH from 1st January 2013. The company’s headquarters will be Cologne. The new company is to operate the
Algae.Tec and Lufthansa have signed a Collaboration Agreement for the construction of a large-scale algae to aviation biofuels production facility. The site will be in Europe adjacent to an industrial CO2 source. Lufthansa will arrange 100% funding for the project. Algae.Tec will receive licence fees and profits from the Project, which will be managed by
Thai Airways announced its use of exPhone onboard, installed by Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) and AeroMobile on the 14 Boeing aircraft type B777-300ER and B747-400. The eXPhone enables passengers to use their own mobile phones, smart phones and BlackBerry devices onboard to make and receive calls, send and receive SMS text messages, and use GPRS
Ramco Systems an enterprise software company focused on enterprise cloud platform, products and services, announced an order win from Wadia Group owned Go Airlines (GoAir) for its Maintenance & Engineering (M&E) suite of software. With this win Ramco’s software would be used in providing MRO, M&E and ERP services to nine aviation organisations in India.
