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EasyJet eyes ‘massive opportunities’ in Europe: CEO McCall

Europe’s airline sector is on course for further consolidation, while the region offers “massive opportunities” for growth, according to Carolyn McCall, chief executive of British budget airline EasyJet. “I definitely think there will be consolidation in Europe,” McC...

Southeast Asia's record jet orders seen at risk: IATA

Record plane orders placed by ambitious Southeast Asian airlines could be at risk in an environment of intense competition, low profitability and turmoil in financial markets, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Sunday. "The budget carriers have captured a...

Virgin flight returns to Heathrow after pilot dazzled by laser

Plane was a few minutes into flight to New York when it reported a medical issue and asked for permission to return before landing safely. A Virgin Atlantic flight was forced to return to Heathrow on Sunday night after its first officer reported being dazzled by a laser outside London. The Airbus A340 was a few minutes into its journey to New York's JFK airport when it reported the incid...

Hundreds of passengers evacuated as plane CATCHES FIRE before take-off

The right turbine of the plane caught fire while on the runway, according to a spokesman for Brazilian airline Jet. The aircraft was being pushed back from the airport gate in Brasilia, the country's capital, at the time of the blaze yesterday. Four fire trucks raced to the scene at around 3:20pm local time and contained the fire in the fuselage next to the engine. The 145 passengers...

Passengers Thank Pilots for Saving Their Lives in Engine Fire

Passengers praised the pilots who safely landed a Boeing-777 with 350 passengers after an engine fire, and later, a chassis fire. Passengers of the Orenair plane heading to Moscow from the Dominican Republic thanked the pilots for their safe landing. It is not known why the plane, a Boeing-777 made in 2005 and thoroughly inspected prior to the flight, had the ac...

Delta’s Financials Have Improved So Much Its Debt Rating Is No Longer Junk

Delta Air Lines Inc. achieved its longstanding goal of regaining investment-grade credit, following through on a priority of retiring Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson. Moody’s Investors Service raised the airline’s senior unsecured debt rating to Baa3, the lowest investment-quality level and higher than the junk grades of rival carriers American Airlines Group Inc. and Unite...

Report: Two Indonesian planes in near-miss

Two Indonesian jetliners "nearly collided" in the skies above Bali on Wednesday in bad weather, according to a news report citing eyewitnesses, a claim denied by public officials. Detik said in several reports on Thursday that at one point during the flight of the Garuda Indonesia and Lion Air planes, the vertical distance between them was about 400 feet, or 122m. This is less than th...

PSA Airlines celebrates 100th aircraft

PSA Airlines celebrated a special milestone Friday inducting the 100th aircraft into its fleet. The aircraft is a CRJ 900 Next Gen that operates under the American Eagle brand. The plane’s first flight left Dayton at 5:45 a.m. Friday on a trip to Canada. It returned at about 3:30 p.m. “It’s fantastic. It’s got that new car smell, that new plane smell,” said Dion...

AIRSHOW-Philippine Air nears deal to acquire Airbus A350s -sources

Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) is close to announcing a deal to secure about half a dozen wide-body Airbus jets to serve U.S. and Europe long-haul flights, several people familiar with the matter said. The deal for Airbus A350-900 jets, likely to be announced at this week's Singapore Airshow, would be valued around $1.8 billion at list prices based on an outright purchase, though other deal...

Airline Celebrates Valentine’s Day with Passengers

Love was in the air a few days ahead of Valentine’s Day on an eight-hour flight from Melbourne to Singapore. Singaporean budget airline Scoot treated passengers to a romantic flight, complete with rainbow lights, music and photo shoots,Mashable reported.  The crew danced down the plane’s aisle to “Get This Party Started” by Pink, Mashable said. They also pla...

JetBlue Launches Venture Capital Subsidiary to Invest in Travel Startups

JetBlue unveiled a new subsidiary, JetBlue Technology Ventures, which is based in a Silicon Valley incubator and will provide seed funding to early stage technology, travel, and hospitality startups. JetBlue Technology Ventures is led by its president, Bonny Simi, a JetBlue pilot who had been working on talent acquisition for the airline, and the subsidiary will be located in the Redwood City,...

Why do girls think they can't be airplane pilots?

On boarding a BA flight to Finland in December, my four-year-old daughter was invited into the cockpit to look around. Thrilled, as she loves to fly, Antonia marvelled at the flashing buttons and levers, astounded and more than a bit suspicious that there was no actual steering wheel. And yet, when I asked her recently if she’d like to be a pilot when she grows up, she sniffed: “I&r...

THAI grounds Airbus A340s it can't sell

Thai Airways International (THAI) will continue grounding 10 Airbus A340s it hasn’t been able to sell because it still isn’t economical to fly the four-engine aircraft even after fuel prices plunged more than 40% in the past year. "The fuel consumption is so uneconomical," President Charamporn Jotikasthira said in an interview in Bangkok Thursday. "All new planes now...

Air Canada Confirms Ratification of New 12 Year Agreement with Flight Dispatchers

Air Canada said today that it welcomes confirmation by the Canadian Airline Dispatchers Association (CALDA) that its members have ratified a new contract on collective agreement terms for 12 years. Air Canada’s flight dispatchers are based at the airline’s Operations Centre near Toronto Pearson International Airport and assist flight crew in the preparation for flight departures and ar...

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Turkish Airlines and CFM sign landmark MOU for more than 600 LEAP-1B engines

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