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American Airlines Claims It Earned More in 2015 Than Any Carrier in History

American Airlines reported a record profit for the fourth quarter and all of 2015 as a sharp drop in fuel prices more than offset lower revenue. The world’s biggest airline said Friday that its earnings were the highest ever for any carrier. American Airlines Group Inc. posted net income...

Qatar Airways expands in Eastern Europe

Qatar Airways is starting 2016 with an expansion programme across Eastern Europe, enabling passengers to benefit from a wide range of additional flight options via Doha’s Hamad International Airport. The further expansion adds a further level of choice for passengers travelling between Croa...

easyJet launches new industry team

easyJet has launched a new industry team that will focus on further development of the travel management company (TMC) sector throughout Europe. easyJet continues to evolve into markets such as Germany and with team-members located in strategic markets across Europe, the airline aims to enhance its partnerships with the corporate travel sector, which now represents more than 20% of the airlines...

Pilots blamed for Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways flight GE222 crash

Two TransAsia Airways pilots caused a 2014 plane crash that left 48 people dead by flying too low as they attempted to land on an island during a typhoon, Taiwan’s aviation authorities said Friday. Taiwan’s aviation body said the pilots flew below the minimum altitude required in poor visibility caused by Typhoon Matmo on July 23, 2014, in its final report into the airline’s s...

Open skies dispute between US and Gulf airlines escalates

The war of words between Arabian Gulf airlines and their American rivals over open skies has been turned up a notch following allegations of declining traffic between the US and the Middle East. The US airlines – American, Delta and United – claimed that bookings from Orlando, San Francisco and Chicago to the region and beyond were down by as much as 13.3 per cent following the entr...

AirAsia to introduce Airbus A320neo this year

AirAsia Bhd will introduce four Airbus A320neo aircraft to its fleet in the second half of this year and 200 more by 2028. The new A320neo aircraft are powered by CFM International’s new LEAP-X engines and will fly all routes operated by the budget airline. Group Chief Pilot Technical and Efficiency Rajesh Gill said the A320neo aircraft will deliver fuel savings of up to 20 per cent an...

British Airways Pilot Safely Lands Plane When Only 3 Of 5 Landing Gear Sets Deploy

Reported By Passenger I just heard from a friend of mine (who reads the blog) that the pilot on her British Airways flight today pulled off a pretty remarkable feat.  In the words of Nicole: I’m on this flight linked below and I though if you had a space to fill in an upcoming post you could give a shout out to the amazing crew. I honestly would have never known we landed with 3 o...

Turkish Airlines and Boeing Sign Long-Term Collaboration Agreement

Turkish Airlines and Boeing, building on their 70-year relationship, today signed a collaboration agreement that will strengthen Turkish Airlines’ long-term industry leadership, as well as Turkey’s aerospace and technology capabilities. In the agreement, Turkish Airlines and Boeing identified several potential areas of new cooperation, expanding on Boeing’s already-significant in...

FAA modernizes outdated medical requirements for trans pilots

With a set of significant improvements to the process by which transgender pilots can begin or complete a gender transition while still flying, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally making it easier for trans pilots to maintain their required medical certification without being needlessly grounded. The changes include simplifying the requirements for all transgender, transexua...

Panic on second American Airlines flight as mystery illness strikes

An American Airlines jet was forced to land in Brazil after a mystery illness struck for second time in a week, leaving four passengers and crew light-headed. The American Airlines flight was travelling from Brazil to the United States when three members of staff became ill, the Mirror reported. It was the second time this week American Airlines was forced to ground a plane after a mystery i...

What happens when you're born on an airplane?

Renewing a passport and border checks are not the easiest of tasks for Shona Owen thanks to the unusual location of her birth. About 36,000 feet in the air. To the constant bemusement of immigration officials, her passport reads: "Holder born on an aeroplane." Owen is one of a small community of people who made their entrance into the world in this most dramatic of ways. In 1...

Passenger Confuses Emergency Exit Door for Bathroom In-Flight in Israel

Israel’s Channel 2 news reported that a passenger who was traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport today attempted to open the door of the aircraft while it was in the air.  According to the news reports, the flight crew stated that the passenger had mistakenly believed that the exit row door was actually the entrance to the bathroom! According to a passenger o...

An EgyptAir mechanic is accused of planting a bomb that blew up a Russian airliner

An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. So far Egypt has publicly said it has found no evidence that the MetroJet flight, which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh airport,...

‘Flight that sucked’: Air Canada plane abruptly drops 25,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed

A passenger on board an Air Canada flight from New Jersey to Vancouver captured the terrifying moment when the plane suddenly dropped in altitude and its oxygen masks were deployed. The emergency was prompted by a loss in pressure. Graphs from online flight monitoring software showed AC549 plummeting from more than 35,000 feet (10,000 meters) to just above 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). Busines...

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Air Baltic Corporation AS , Latvia’s national airline and the leading carrier in the Baltic States, announced that airBaltic and its subsidiaries participating in the voluntary Ch...

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Embraer delivers first E175 with new RECARO cabin interior to American Airlines

Embraer has delivered the first E175 fitted with next-generation RECARO passenger seats to American Airlines, marking another step in the ongoing modernization of one of the world's most successfu...

Qantas Freight and Australia Post expand air cargo capacity with Airbus A321 freighter in western Sydney

Qantas Freight and Australia Post have entered the next chapter of their long-standing partnership with the arrival of the first of three additional Airbus A321 Passenger-to-Freighter (A321P2F) aircra...

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

Turkish Airlines has taken another major step in its fleet expansion strategy with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with CFM International for more than 300 LEAP-1B engines and a long-term...