South Africa Airways (SAA) has taken delivery of its latest A320, the 8th of an order of 20 A320 aircraft, and used its homecoming flight to transport a tonne of medical equipment, school supplies and clothing donated by la Banque Alimentaire du Pallet and Office Depot, the business equipment supplies chain.
Moscow Vnukovo Airport general director Andrey Dyakov and his deputy Sergey Solntsev have resigned after a Falcon 50 business jet crashed at the airport on the night of Oct. 20-21.
The airline has announced changes in its winter schedule due to the recent outbreak of Ebola. The changes include a reduction in its services from Addis Ababa to three of its Asian destinations.
Delta Air Lines is striking back against claims that it is misusing its slots at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and stated in a filing the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has no precedent for seizing and reallocating the slots.
Oneworld member and Etihad Airways equity partner airberlin will continue to adapt its route network by focusing on increased efficiency and further reducing seasonal effects, leading to a 5% reduction in capacity, according to airberlin CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer.
The European Commission (EC) is seeking input into whether SkyTeam members Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and Alitalia have unfair dominance on their transatlantic New York services.
Association of European Airlines (AEA) CEO Athar Husain Khan has pushed back against the suggestion that European airlines are protectionist, redirecting the focus onto other, less liberalized markets.
Air France is operating a series of flights powered by biofuels on its Toulouse-Paris Orly route between now and next September to showcase its Lab’line For the Future project.
Norway’s air navigation services provider (ANSP) Avinor is preparing to implement the largest airspace reorganization ever undertaken in Norway on Nov. 13.
Eurocontrol has redefined standard aircraft wake turbulence separation minima for final approach and departure in a bid to increase runway throughput and efficiency at Europe’s airports.
South African-based business aviation concern Fireblade Aviation has recently opened the first and only Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport (ORT).
Boeing and Kenya Airways have partnered with First Baptist Church in Baytown, Texas, to transport medical equipment to Kajiado, Kenya, on a newly delivered 787 Dreamliner.
The Greek airline has released its summer 2015 schedule to include a total of 38 new routes. The Star alliance carrier initially released 23 new routes in September, followed by a further three at the beginning of October and an additional 12 today (October 20, 2014).
Florida-based regional Silver Airways plans to increase its intra-Florida flights 40% beginning Nov. 6 and will soon operate more than 560 weekly flights to 10 Florida cities.
