Originally completed in 1999, Shanghai’s Pudong airport is now undergoing its third major expansion program to cope with the rapidly and originally unforeseen increase in passenger numbers which, for 2014, exceeded 51 million. Present plans include the construction of a 622,000m2 third terminal at a cost of US$3.18 billion which will cater for up to […]
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Sabre Corporation, the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, has signed a new technology agreement with Bahrain’s national carrier, Gulf Air, to provide its AirCentre Flight Plan Manager solution to streamline the airline’s operations. For the past eight years, Gulf Air has been using AirCentre Flight Plan Manager to achieve significant cost savings
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Southwest Airlines announced a new tentative agreement with Transport Workers Union Local 555, the union that represents more than 12,000 Southwest Ground Operations, Provisioning, and Cargo Agents. The Union’s Executive Board reviewed an Agreement in Principle that negotiators reached December 23rd and decided to conduct a ratification vote that could end more than four years
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When Etihad was encouraged by both regional and national German governmental representatives to invest in a 29.2% stake in airberlin back in 2011, it did so with 63 codeshare agreements in place with the German airline. However, predominantly after intense lobbying from airberlin’s chief rival and Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa, 29 of those codeshare agreements
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WestJet Encore pilots have voted in favour of a new agreement with 93% of eligible pilots voting. The tentative agreement was negotiated between WestJet Encore and the WestJet Pilots’ Association (WJPA), the association representing its pilots. Voting on the agreement began on December 12th, 2015 and ended December 20th, 2015. Nearly 275 WestJet Encore pilots
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A bi-lateral agreement has been reached for the re-introduction of scheduled air services between the USA and Cuba, though a specific date has not yet been set. This is the latest step in Barack Obama’s wish to improve political relations with the country which he announced back in December 2014. In 14th March 2015 the
Jeppesen, a part of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, has teamed with Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, to optimize crew planning operations. Emirates has now fully entered Jeppesen Crew Rostering services into its operations, which was introduced to improve efficiency and lower costs related to crew management functions, while respecting crew preferences. Jeppesen Crew Rostering is
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As a consequence of the still unaccounted for disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people on board on the 8th March last year, plus taking into account recommendations made by the French investigators subsequent to the crash of Air France’s Flight 447 in the Atlantic killing all 228 passengers and crew on board,
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Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), a worldwide provider of aircraft connectivity systems, operations solutions and media content to the travel industry, announced a milestone deal with Shareco to launch GEE’s AIRCONNECT inflight connectivity solution aboard ten aircraft operated by the HNA Group of China. Shareco will lead the commercial and operational planning for the program. GEE
Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced a contract from Spain national airport operator Aena, S.A. to supply and service 290 Itemiser 4DX detectors. Following competitive operational testing closely supported by local partner Alava Ingenieros, Itemiser 4DX was selected to meet the requirements of new EU legislation for enhanced screening of passengers at
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