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South Korea, China to Hold Talks on Cutting Flight Delays

South Korea and China will hold their annual air traffic management meeting this week to discuss ways to reduce flight delays between the two countries, the government said Monday. The three-day meeting, scheduled to kick off on Tuesday in Seoul, will focus on ways to handle the spike in bilatera...

Lufthansa Passenger Arrested After Fumbling with Door During Flight

A Jordanian-American male passenger was restrained by crew members on a Belgrade-bound Lufthansa flight on Sunday after fumbling with the emergency exit door, a spokesman for the German carrier said. The man, a Jordanian with a United States passport, kept changing seats after takeoff and started...

2 Die in Small Jet Crash Near San Bernardino

Two people died after a small jet crashed at a local airport near San Bernardino, Calif., on Sunday, prompting authorities to close the airport for 24 hours. The crash took place at Apple Valley Airport around 2:20 p.m. PT, local media reported. The plane was a two-seater Aero L-39 Albatros, a Czechoslovakian-developed jet trainer, KTLA-TV reported. Fire crews extinguished the flames after...

Etihad Airways not interested in upgraded Airbus A380 superjumbo

Etihad Airways is not interested in a stretched upgrade to the A380, which Dubai-based Emirates airline has asked Airbus to build, according to chief executive James Hogan. The Abu Dhabi-based airline has 10 A380s together in its fleet and on order. “We think the new technology (with) two engines is operationally and economically more advantageous to us in the long term,” Mr Hoga...

Frontier Airlines is Considering a Rare U.S. Carrier IPO

Frontier Airlines Inc., a no-frills carrier, has held early stage talks with investment banks about an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The U.S. airline is considering starting a formal IPO process as early as next year, the people said, asking not to be identified as the plans are private. There are a number of factors that could influence the decision, and F...

Jail term reduction for aviation boss who offered bribe to speed up trade licence

An aviation company manager awaiting a licence to begin operating has had his one-year jail term for offering a bribe to expedite his paperwork reduced. Dubai Criminal Court convicted the 57-year-old man, who denied the charges, and ordered his deportation after the jail term, but he appealed the court’s verdict. Uzbek A Y offered US$50,000 (Dh183,658) to Emirati aviation operat...

Etihad suspends Chennai flights for two more days

Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways said it will be extending the suspension of its daily flights to Chennai for two more days, until December 9 after torrential rains forced closure of the city’s airport last week. The airline operates three flights daily to the southern Indian city. Etihad initially suspended flights from Wednesday, December 2 through to Monday, December 7. Details of the...

Budget Airline Complaints in Taiwan Soar As Options Increase

The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) received 480 complaints against low-cost carriers (LCCs) from January to October this year, more than double the number during the same period last year, according to a recent United Evening News report. The budget airline industry has been booming in recent years in Taiwan, with 19 low-cost carriers now serving Taiwan and expanding their routes t...

Govt Removes Major Obstacle to PIA Sell-off

President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday promulgated the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Corporation Conversion Ordinance, paving way for the privatisation of the national flag carrier under a condition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme. The government chose to issue the ordinance on a day when all eyes were on the final phase of local government elections in Punja...

Arabia Maroc A320 Near Amsterdam on Dec. 5, 2015, Other Crew Saw Oil Trace from Aircraft in Flight

An Air Arabia Maroc Airbus A320-200, registration CN-NMI performing flight 3O-128 from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Tangier (Maroc), was climbing out of Amsterdam's runway 24 on a southerly heading, when a KLM crew reported they had just seen an aircraft with quite an oil trace behind them, a few minutes later ATC queried what colour that aircraft had. The KLM crew reported the aircraft in...

Air New Zealand’s 787: narrower seats pinch in Business Premier

By John Walton I’ve long been of the opinion that Air New Zealand offers one of the best business class products for an overnight flight — the kind of leg that makes up the majority of the airline’s longhaul services. I find the flip-over seat ideal: after a decent meal, just ask the crew to make it up while you change into PJs, and then flop into a memory foam mattress topper...

Bomb Threat Forces PIA Plane Make Emergency Landing in China

A Tokyo-bound PIA flight today made an emergency landing at north China's major Tianjin port city airport, following a bomb hoax. After taking off from Beijing, flight PK852 was en route Tokyo when it made the emergency landing in Tianjin amid a bomb scare, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) spokesman Danial Gilani was quoted as saying by the Dawn. "After a thorough search, the a...

Air New Zealand Dreamliner Delayed in China by Faulty Brakes

Hundreds of passengers grounded by faulty brakes on an Air New Zealand Dreamliner aircraft were on their way to Auckland on Saturday afternoon after a delay of almost a day. Flight NZ288 was scheduled to leave Shanghai at 2:15 p.m. on Friday (Shanghai time) but was delayed overnight. The flight was expected to arrive in Auckland on Sunday at 2:30 a.m. An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said t...

MRJs to Fly All J-Air Routes in Future, JAL Chairman Says

Japan Airlines Co. plans to replace all aircraft flown by domestic subsidiary J-Air Corp. with the new fuel-efficient Mitsubishi Regional Jet. Chairman Masaru Onishi explained the move in a recent interview with Kyodo News, saying the swap-out could be complete just over a decade from now. J-Air primarily serves routes linking Osaka and Sapporo with smaller Japanese cities. It operates...

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

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