91% OF 8,800 British Airways members of British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), a section of the UK’s largest trade union, Unite, have voted for industrial action if the carrier continues with its plans to enforce a newly introduced staff performance system. Aside from pointing out that the current system works fairly for all
The French noise abatement authority, Autorité de Contrôle des Nuisances Sonores Aéroportuaires (ACNUSA), took strong steps against Warsaw-based Enter Air to recover unpaid fines relating to noise disturbance at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport levied between 2013 and 2014. According to records, the Polish airline owed €1.103 million in unpaid noise disturbance fines pertaining to
Two weeks after an Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash landed at Dubai Airport, a Qatar Airways A330 has been forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport after suffering what is understood to have been a “bird strike” on Thursday. The incident occurred shortly after the flight, codenamed QR240, took off for Doha at
In light of a number of fires onboard aircraft which have been attributed to ignition of lithium batteries, in a joint letter to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Transport, the International Air Transport Association, directors of Civil Aviation and the world’s largest lithium battery manufacturing and export countries, IATA, PRBA, the US Rechargeable Battery
Despite every effort, Dublin-based Norwegian Air International (NAI) has still failed to persuade the US authorities to issue a permit to enable it to fly transatlantic routes to America. This failure by the US authorities could have the potential to damage the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The continued delays come despite
Tourist numbers in Turkey are continuing to fall amidst political unrest and terrorism threats. While the year-on-year figure for May revealed a drop of 34.7%, June’s year-on-year figure stands at 40.86%, which will equate to an approximate loss of revenue from tourism of US$8 billion if the year’s overall reduction in tourist numbers averages out
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings announced the inaugural flight of the first of 20 B767-300 converted freighters to be provided to Amazon to support the continuing expansion of Amazon’s e-commerce business and to enhance its customer delivery capabilities. The aircraft, the first in Amazon’s new “Prime Air” livery and named “Amazon One,” departed from Seattle-Tacoma International
Problems continue at Delta Airlines as the ‘ripple effect’ of early Monday’s power outage continues to spread. While it was initially thought the outage originated at Georgia Power which controls the power grid to Atlanta Airport, it was subsequently discovered that the outage started in the airline’s equipment. A Delta Airlines spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that
In a reaction to the “unprecedented” crisis in the global economy and with 90% of its revenue coming from exports, Embraer, the world’s fourth-largest airplane manufacturer and market leader in mid-sized passenger jets, has announced the intention to lay off some of its workforce. Both production and administration sides of the business will be affected as
As regulators worldwide search for a solution to the ever-increasing problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are also called, a further incident has occurred at Germany’s Munich Airport between a UAV and a Lufthansa A321 on its approach to the airport on August 4. The plane in question was on a
