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Aviation Expert Agrees with Indonesia Airlines Poor Rating Report

Aviation expert Samudra Sukardi said that he agrees with the ratings given by AirlineRatings.com that named eight of the country’s airlines as the least safe in the world. "It’s true. The fact is, we have accidents and others,” Samudra to Tempo on Saturday (9/1)....

Aviation sector instructed to spread wings in ASEAN

Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai asked Viet Nam's aviation industry to create breakthroughs in building and upgrading airports in a bid to elevate it to a position among ASEAN's top four. Speaking at a ceremony in Ha Noi yesterday to evaluate the sector's development over the las...

British Airways flight evacuated after 'female passenger boards with fake passport'

A British Airways flight to London City Airport from Ibiza was evacuated after a female passenger was discovered with a 'fake passport'. Police were called onto the plane at Eivissa airport after crew became suspicious of very nervous-looking woman, reports Periodico de Ibiza. Gabriel Gimenez, who was travelling on the flight to Dublin via London, said the crew removed...

United Fined $2.75 Million for Mistreating Disabled Passengers

The U.S. government is fining United Continental Holdings Inc. $2.75 million for mistreating passengers with disabilities and for six instances of stranding aircraft on the tarmac. The Department of Transportation began receiving a “significant increase in the number of disability-related complaints” about how United treated customers in wheelchairs or who needed additional assistan...

Spirit Air’s Ousted CEO Walks Away With $1 Million and Free Flights for Life

Ben Baldanza resigned his position as Spirit Airlines CEO and also his board position on January 4. His separation agreement with the airline was revealed Friday evening in an SEC filing by the company. Baldanza will receive $1 million divided into monthly payments over the next two years and he will consult for the airline for one year. His annual salary at Spirit had been $500,000 as...

Long-haul growth drives record passenger figures at Norwegian

Europe’s third largest low-cost airline Norwegian has reported its highest ever passenger figures in a single year - with nearly 26 million passengers in 2015 and a load factor of 86 per cent. The airline’s busiest ever year in the UK and increased long-haul operations both contributed considerably to the growth, with increased passenger numbers, more new aircraft and high load fact...

Ryanair passenger numbers jump after airline cuts fares following Paris attacks

Ryanair cut fares to attract bookings after the Paris terrorist attacks, which boosted passenger numbers by a quarter last month and helped it grow at more than double the rate of fierce rival easyJet in 2015. The Irish budget airline, which is led by chief executive Michael O’Leary, carried 7.5m customers in December, a 25pc jump on the same month a year earlier. Ryanair’s load fac...

Aviation Minister asks States to rationalise tax on jet fuel

Union Minister for Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Saturday asked the State governments, including Tamil Nadu, to rationalise taxes on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) so as to energise the aviation industry. Stating that he had written letters to the Chief Ministers of States and Union Territories on slashing the Value Added Tax on ATF, he said that jet fuel accounted for most part of operat...

NASA: Green aviation technology could save industry $255 billion

A six-year NASA mission to advance green aviation has wrapped up and the results are in: If U.S. airlines embrace certain technologies to reduce fuel burn, noise and air pollution, they could save $255 billion over 25 years. That's the upshot of the Environmentally Responsible Aviation project that was led out of NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and involved sister research faci...

IATA intend to prevent fraudulent payment transactions

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced it is expanding its activities to prevent payment fraud in the air travel industry. Payment fraud costs the industry an estimated $858 million annually, approximately $639 million of which is borne by airlines and the remainder by other participants in the travel value chain, including travel agents. IATA is cooperating with Ypsilon N...

Gulf Air signs new technology agreement with Sabre

Sabre Corporation has signed a new technology agreement with Bahrain's Gulf Air, to provide its AirCentre Flight Plan Manager solution to streamline the airline's operations. For the past eight years, Gulf Air has been using AirCentre Flight Plan Manager to achieve significant cost savings whilst enabling key flight planning decisions. Under the renewed agreement, the solution will be v...

OPINION: What accident statistics don't tell us

With 2015 having proven – at least conditionally – to be the safest year on record for airline passenger transport operations, the inquiry into the Tatarstan 737 crash at Kazanis a reminder that such statistics are, to some extent, still dependent on good fortune. Investigators frequently use the ‘Swiss cheese’ model to illustrate the manner in which weak elements c...

Air France-KLM Is Looking Weaker Headed Into 2016

Air France-KLM Group, ranked as Europe’s biggest airline since its formation in 2004, is teetering toward an exit from the industry’s top tier after a year in which efforts to slash costs foundered on union opposition. While figures due next week are likely to confirm the Franco-Dutch company as the No. 1 regional operator by traffic, a multiple of passengers and kilometers flown th...

Lufthansa May Make More Money in 2016, Thanks to Cheap Fuel

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is forecasting that operating profit will rise in 2016 as fuel costs decline a fourth consecutive year. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes will exceed the 2015 range of 1.75 billion euros ($1.9 billion) and 1.95 billion euros, the Cologne, Germany-based airline said in a presentation for investors published on Friday. While a predicted 20 percent drop in the pr...

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

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