The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that crashed over Ukraine Thursday, killing all 298 on board, was shot down by a surface-to-air-missile (SAM) from territory controlled by Russian-supporting militants, US President Barack Obama said Friday.
Swiss regional carrier SkyWork Airlines has appointed a new CEO and said it has decided against earlier plans to work under another airline’s air operator’s certificate (AOC).
The launch of Etihad Airways’ daily Abu Dhabi–Rome flights is “the next step in a burgeoning relationship with Italy,” according to president and CEO James Hogan, speaking in Rome Wednesday.
Eurocontrol DG Frank Brenner is calling on the region’s air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to work harder at “deconstructing the air traffic management (ATM) monolith and seeing what services might be provided under market conditions.”
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with UK air navigation services provider NATS to explore ways of driving progress toward implementation of the Single European Sky (SES) and delivering additional savings for airlines in Europe.
flydubai will become the first carrier to operate direct flights from Dubai to both Sarajevo and Zagreb. It will introduce a twice weekly link to Sarajevo from December 8, 2014, while a three times weekly offering to Zagreb will follow from December 16, 2014. Both routes will be served by its dual-class 737-800s.
Latest data from The International Air Transport Association (IATA) for global air freight markets shows air cargo growth accelerated in May 2014, with 4.7 per cent growth compared to a year ago. This is up from the 3.8 per cent year-on-year growth recorded in April.
UK-based low-cost carrier (LCC) EasyJet has welcomed a deal between Nicarnica Aviation and Elbit Systems to put the Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and Detector (AVOID)-based ash detection technology into production.
Airbus has teamed up with British Airways, London Heathrow Airport (LHR), and UK air navigation services provider NATS to study and develop operational procedures to reduce the number of people affected by noise at the airport.
From the beginning of this month, the city’s primary international gateway has been able to increase the average 65 flights an hour to 74 but in the interests of safety, due to thunderous weather conditions experienced during the summer months, peak slot hours will be controlled at 70 flights.
The airline will offer four return flights in June and July 2015 through its joint venture with transatlantic partner Delta Air Lines, operated on Thursdays from June 25, 2015 using a Boeing 747-400 configured with 14 Upper Class seats, 66 Premium Economy seats and 375 seats in Economy.
The airline first made its entry into Portugal in 1999 and launched flights from Porto in 2007. It currently offers regular flights from Porto to Basel, Geneva, London Gatwick, Lyon, Paris CDG and Toulouse and carried almost 800,000 passengers across this network in the year between July 2013 and the end of June 2014.
The new daily flight will launch from October 27, 2014 and will be operated using a 278-seat Airbus A330-200 complementing the existing Dubai low-cost offering of Wizz Air and providing an alternative global connection option to the current flights of Qatar Airways via its Doha hub.
Singapore’s Changi Airport could become a casualty of Etihad Airways’ new long-haul fleet expansion when the airline cuts its Changi stopover on one of its Australian routes next year.
LAN Airlines welcomed its first 787 in August 2012 and has a total of 22 787-8s on order and a further four larger 787-9s. It currently operates a fleet of six examples all configured in a two-class arrangement with 217 seats in Economy and 30 in Premium Business.
