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The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) has entered into an agreement with JR Technologies for the development, hosting and operation of the IATA Financial Gateway (IFG) payment solution, which is a turnkey IATA IT solution which will simplify the shopping-to-cash process for travel service suppliers. The introduction of a universal payment gateway through the IFG

Rolls-Royce has announced the launch of LessorCare, which “addresses lessors’ needs for a simple and flexible service offering. It draws together a range of services under one comprehensive framework, while still allowing lessor customers the opportunity to adapt the level of service through the life of the engine.” Prior to rolling out the complete program

Originally planned for its first delivery in 2013, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced the fifth delay in the delivery of Japan’s long-awaited regional jet, this time by two years, with the first customer delivery moved back from 2018 to 2020. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) is Japan’s first domestically produced passenger plane for more than

Etihad Airways, the government-owned and Abu Dhabi-based carrier has announced that James Hogan is to step down as company president as part of a “transition process”. Having joined Etihad Airways in 2006 when the carrier was a regional short-haul airline with 22 aircraft, last year he was named President and Chief Executive Officer, Etihad Aviation

Continued technical problems continue to dog the opening of Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport, meaning that the already three-times delayed opening will be delayed a fourth time and will not happen in 2017. The problems appear to remain connected with the smoke extraction system. According to Airportzentrale.de: “there are problems with several hundred doors and the

Rolls-Royce has reached an agreement with the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), as well as the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service (MPF) in relation to “bribery and corruption involving intermediaries in a number of overseas markets” according to a press release from the company, issued January 17. The agreements

The news that Lufthansa plans to wet lease 38 aircraft from its competitor, airberlin, has resulted in Ryanair CCO, David O’Brien, announcing at a media briefing in London that the Irish low-cost carrier will soon be lodging a complaint based on the grounds it is anti-competitive. The deal between Lufthansa and airberlin, which was agreed

In a statement issued from Sydney on Tuesday January 17, Malaysian, Chinese and Australian authorities have confirmed that the deep-sea search for the missing Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777-200ER, flight MH370, has been terminated without any evidence to support any theories as to where the jet may have crashed. The final location of Flight MH370, which

A Boeing 747-400 operated by Turkish cargo operator ACT Airlines has crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas Airport at 7.31 Monday, local time; initial reports that the four-man crew all died, with 33 village residents also perishing. The plane was on a flight from Hong Kong to Istanbul and was due to land at Manas Airport, close

With BA having to cancel 48 flights after BA’s “Mixed Fleet” union members went on strike during Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and the cancellation of a further 80 flights owing to bad weather, further disruption to travelers is now being caused by a second wave of strike action, this time a three-day strike