Other

Finnair and the Finnish Cabin Crew Union (SLSY) have reached a savings agreement in the negotiations related to Finnair’s savings program. The agreement brings Finnair €18m in permanent annual savings. Approximately 75% of the savings materialize during this agreement period and 25% in the future through changes to the employment terms of new cabin attendants.

It took eight years of investigating to bring seven past and present executives of Airbus Group to trial, and only a matter of hours for that trial to come to a grinding halt. The reason? The French court in question, headed by lead Magistrate Bénédicte de Perheus, has decided that the whole concept of a

Air Canada has reached a new agreement with the Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA), subject to ratification, on collective agreement terms for ten years. “This new, ten-year agreement with the Air Canada Pilots Association is an important development which, if ratified, will allow us to further accelerate the implementation of our business strategy and support

It is easy to forget that the effects of the world’s worst outbreak of the Ebola virus stretch well beyond the current tragic loss of over 3,000 people. Airlines are now heavily promoting the fact it is still remarkably safe to fly and that Ebola only becomes contagious once symptoms become obvious. With an incubation

Only days after 77 members of the US House of Representatives pushed for the total ban on all forms of phone calls being made from airplanes, the FAA have decided to demand that cockpit displays in over 1300 Boeing aircraft be replaced over the next five years. The reason why these particular aircraft have been

The power struggle between unions and airlines seems to be never-ending and the public have to be falling out of love with two of the industry’s greats. Two days after Air France call of their longest strike in the company’s history, Lufthansa are hit by a fifth strike in less than four weeks, with 25

In a massive knee-jerk reaction to Friday 26th September’s fire at a control facility near Chicago which affected something like 3,000 flights, the FAA now wish to review US air traffic control’s contingency plans and security plans. They have already made it clear they are not afraid to make immediate changes if they are deemed