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.
The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has announced yet another major city infrastructure overhaul, this time with a US$10 billion redevelopment and expansion of the city’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The intention is to overhaul and expand on the existing number of terminals in an attempt to make them all interconnecting, which has
The UK government has shown its willingness to safeguard the public amid the boom in use of drones, or UAVs, by aiming to introduce new measures governing their use, with measures currently out for consultation to include: – mandatory registration of new drones – tougher penalties for illegal flying near no-fly zones and new signs
As of January 3, Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport has fuel bunkers filled with an approximate 10% biofuel converted from used cooking oil, which has been mixed with standard jet kerosene. An SAS Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320neo was the first aircraft to use the new fuel for its flight to Los Angeles that day. This means that
