After several months of speculation, Mihin Lanka, the Sri Lankan low-cost carrier, which has never been a profitable carrier since its inception in 2007 has ceased operations. The country’s flag-carrying airline SriLankan Airlines has taken over all its existing flights. Operating a small fleet of Airbus A320-family aircraft, the low-cost carrier concentrated on routes within
As part of the nine-point “Trust Together” strategic project announced by Air France-KLM on November 3, the carrier, merger partners of the KLM Group, has revealed the intention to create a stand-alone company to run alongside which will be both “competitive and innovative”, designed to drive growth for the Paris-Charles de Gaulle hub. The creation
Only a year after Ryanair CEO, Michael O’Leary said “We won’t fly to Frankfurt”, the Irish low-cost carrier has revealed plans to fly four new routes from Frankfurt, starting March 2017. Operating with two Boeing 737-800s, the carrier will fly routes to Alicante, Malaga and Mallorca in Spain, and Faro in Portugal, with flights offered
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has reported that analysis of two wing flaps that have been recovered and which have been identified as coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 would indicate that they were not in the landing position when the plane descended. Flight MH370 disappeared without trace in March last year
With 78 million passengers in 2015, Dubai International Airport is the world’s largest international airport by passenger numbers, having seen a 13% annual compound annual growth since 2000. In 2010 a second Dubai international airport, Al Maktoum International Airport was opened. Today, November 1, the Dubai government announced it will be investing US$3 million, with
On Monday October 31, 2016, Lufthansa sayed farewell to its fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft, after almost 50 years. On a special flight, LH9922, between Frankfurt and Hamburg, the B 737-300 D-ABEC will be officially bid farewell at a joint event with Lufthansa Tachnik, after which it will fly back to Frankfurt with Captain and
The European commission has advised Belgium’s Brussels Airlines and TAP Portugal that their codeshare agreement on flights between Brussels and Lisbon have been operated in a manner that restricts competition and therefore breaches EU antitrust rules. According to the EU commissioner at the head of competition policy, Margrethe Vestager, “Code-sharing by airlines can bring benefits
It was announced this week that the Brazilian plane manufacturer, Embraer, has reached an agreement for the resolution of investigations with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Brazilian (Ministério Público Federal (MPF) and the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM). As part of the settlement, Embraer has agreed to
New York-based jetBlue airways has taken a minority share in JetSuite, the California-based, fast-growing charter airline according to an announcement made by Robin Hayes, jetBlue’s CEO. Making the announcement at the third-quarter investor call on October 25, he said that JetSuite was “changing the game in short-haul travel in the west coast.” Launched in 2009,
Six years after the Conservative-led coalition government scrapped plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport, just west of London, the go-ahead has finally been given for a third runway as opposed to creating a new airport or adding a second runway at nearby Gatwick Airport. The move is seen as a strategic win for
