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Africa’s First Airbus A350 XWB named The Simien Mountains

Ethiopian Airlines, the leading airline in connecting Africa with the rest of the World, continued its aviation technology leadership with yet another first African Airbus A350 XWB. In its successful 70 years of history, Ethiopian has so many firsts in African aviation industry. The A-350 ...

Aviation: Commission updates EU air safety list –Iran and Africa make progress

The European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list of airlines that do not meet international safety standards, and are therefore subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union. Today the European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list...

Vistara celebrates crossing two million customer mark

Vistara, India’s fastest growing full service carrier, today crosses the milestone of flying 2million happy customers. Having the lineage of great brands – Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, Vistara has swiftly gained one million customers in less than six months with addition of just two aircraft to its fleet. The airline with its focus on providing a personalized and seamless flying e...

Air France says French pilots strikes cost more than 40 millon euro

Air France said on Tuesday the last four days of strikes by French pilots would cost the airline more than 40 million euros.  A spokeswoman for Air France, who confirmed comments given by chief executive Frederic Gagey to AFP, said the company plans to meet unions by the end of the week. "Air France managed to conduct 80 percent of flights," the spokeswoman said. Air France...

Qatar Airways Cargo Reveals Strategy To Become A Major Player

Qatar Airways Chief Officer Cargo, Mr. Ulrich Ogiermann made several important announcements at a press conference attended by both Chinese and international industry media on the opening day of Air Cargo China 2016 in Shanghai. Mr. Ogiermann revealed that the world’s third largest international cargo carrier plans to become a major player in three new markets: Transpacific, Australia and...

airBaltic Customer Satisfaction Peaks

The Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved its highest customer satisfaction ratings in the past three years, according to a comprehensive survey of travelers. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “Our customer satisfaction is at its peak. And all our customer groups tell us of significant service improvements – foreigners visiting the Baltic region, Latvians, Estonia...

GCAA and Eurocontrol begin real time data exchange

A real time flight data exchange has been successfully implemented between the UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Eurocontrol. A cooperation agreement between the two organisations was signed in October 2015, on 6 June 2016 the pair implemented the real time exchange for the first time. “Real time updates of departure times and other trajectory information is now bei...

Air France pilot strike causes flight cancellation for Irish fans heading to Paris

AN AIR FRANCE flight from Dublin to France has been cancelled tomorrow, leaving some Irish football fans with no flight to get to Euro 2016. The cancellation is due to an internal conflict within the airline which has caused Air France pilots to go on strike. The Air France website states that flight AF 1617 leaving Dublin at 9.10am and arriving at Charles de Gaulle at 2.45pm has been cancel...

British Airways flight makes emergency landing at Heathrow

A British Airways passenger jet declared an emergency after taking off from Heathrow yesterday morning.  Flight 1340 from London to Leeds, Yorkshire, was forced to turn around shortly after it had taken off at 8.23am.  The captain is thought to have requested a priority landing at Heathrow after a "technical issue" arose.  The BA flight is thought to have lan...

Iranair could buy Boeing planes but any deal faces many hurdles

Iran’s state airline Iranair says it is talking with US plane maker Boeing about buying a large number of aircraft. Iranair’s chairman Farhad Parvaresh told Reuters the order could be close in size to the 118 Airbus jets it has agreed to buy. The Airbus deal however is conditional on the granting of US export licences because those planes contain so many US-built parts. In add...

Passengers made to wait for 5 hours inside Air India flight due to technical snag

Around 200 passengers travelling to Bangkok on an Air India flight spent more than five hours inside the aircraft owing to a last minute snag that could not be corrected due to dearth of technicians. The flight was scheduled for take-off at 1:30 am on Saturday but the snag made it immobile till early morning. Around 5 am on Saturday when passengers became restless, the airline crew allowed t...

Swedish pilot strike continues

The Swedish Pilot Union SPF called 400 members on short haul routes out on strike, effective Friday, June 10. The majority of the flights operated by SAS with Swedish pilots will be cancelled. On Saturday this affects 159 flights and 20.000 passengers. On Saturday, flights operated by SAS with Swedish pilots will be cancelled. Flights, operated with Danish and Norw...

Sixth Austrian Airlines Embraer OE-LWK Took Off

Another Embraer aicraft in the Austrian Airlines fleet with the registration number OE-LWK took off on its initial flight OS311 from Vienna to Stockholm this morning. The Embraer aircraft is the sixth out of a total of 17 Embraer jets which Austrian Airlines will integrate into its fleet by the end of 2017. In April 2016, an Embraer simulator from Swiss Aviation Training (SAT) was relocate...

Air France: Pilots' strike to hit Euro 2016

Pilots at the French national airline have started a four-day strike that could disrupt plans for thousands of football fans on the second day of the Euro 2016 competition. Air France has cancelled up to 30% of its flights on Saturday. Pilots at the French national airline have started a four-day strike that could disrupt plans for thousands of football fans on the second day of the Euro 201...

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