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
According to Etihad Airways, the Italian flag-carrying airline Alitalia, together with its shareholders, is to present a new business plan to the Italian government next Monday. This move comes subsequent to the loss-making Italian airline approving a short-term finance deal last December, together with a new strategy which will include job losses. The Abu Dhabi
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released figures for global air freight markets revealing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 6.8% in November 2016 compared to the same period for 2015. This figures demonstrated more than 2.5 times the average annual monthly growth rate of 2.6% shown over the past decade.
Almost two years after the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 which killed all 150 passengers and crew on board, German prosecutors have closed the investigation, concluding that Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot, was solely responsible in the intentional crashing of the aircraft. A number of victims’ relatives have been upset by the closing of the investigation.
