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Lion Air Pilot Grounded for "Offering Hostess as Compensation for Delayed Flight"

Aeroflot takes delivery of new SSJ-100

Aeroflot has taken delivery of a new Sukhoi Superjet 100 (registration number RA-89062) in full specification produced by JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA). The plane has been named in honour of Russian military pilot Peter Nesterov, an aerobatics pioneer and the...

Angela Merkel opens the new Lufthansa Integrated Operations Control Center

Today Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel visited the Lufthansa Group in Frankfurt. The visit to the facility was occasioned by the opening of the new traffic control center (Integrated Operations Control Center – IOCC), an exchange with apprentices, as well as the naming ceremony of an Airbu...

New Iran airline ready for launch

Iran’s media said on Saturday that a new airline will become operational in the country by next April. The new airline will be called “Tehran Air” and will be equipped with 11 aircraft - four Airbus 340 and seven Airbus 321 planes.     Mohammad-Ali Ilkhani, the CEO of Tehran Air, has been quoted by the Persian-language news agency Tasnim as saying that the ai...

American Airlines Introduces AAdvantage Loyalty Program

American Airlines is taking the first step in the evolution of its award-winning AAdvantage® loyalty program. In the second half of 2016, the program will shift how customers earn award miles from distance flown to dollars spent. Award redemption rates will be adjusted with some award levels increasing, while others will be decreasing. Additionally, American will offer the best elite-qual...

SkyGreece Airlines Goes Bankrupt Two Months After Halting Operations

SkyGreece Airlines has gone bankrupt about two months after it halted operations that stranded hundreds of passengers, the court-appointed monitor said Wednesday. Jeffrey Kerbel of Ernst & Young confirmed that the airline was bankrupt, after filing for creditor protection in September in a bid to restructure. Details of decision will be provided "in due course," he wrote i...

Airplane landed in Bulgaria after bomb threat

An airplane performed an emergency landing at the airport in the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas after a passenger on board claimed a bomb had been planted on the aircraft. The airplane was conducting a charter flight between the Polish capital of Warsaw and the Egyptian city of Hurghada, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) informs. Following the bomb threat, the crew demanded an emer...

Air NZ to use 787-9 to Honolulu

Air New Zealand is adding extra seats and tweaking the schedule of its Auckland-Honolulu services to offer more connecting options at both ends of the route. The increase in capacity will come through replacing the Boeing 767-300ER currently on the route with the 787-9 Dreamliner from May 2016 on the airline’s four times a week service. Air NZ’s 767s feature 230 seats across busi...

RFDS takes delivery of new PC-12

Adelaide-based Central Operations of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) has taken delivery of the first of five new Pilatus PC-12 aeromedical aircraft. The $7 million aircraft has been described as a “flying intensive care unit” with its new-technology emergency medical equipment. Central Operations has begun the replacement of five ageing PC-12s, with the first to be retired...

Cathay Pacific Unveils its Biggest Environmental Project - The Recycling of A340 Aircraft

Cathay Pacific Airways today unveiled its biggest recycling project to date – the environmentally responsible dismantling of Airbus A340 aircraft that are being retired from its fleet. The airline is committed to sustainable development, which includes ensuring the effective management of resources and the reduction of energy consumption and wastage. Now, with the end-of-life solution for...

Police say no 'connection to terrorism' in Boston-bound flight incident

An apparently intoxicated 32-year-old Polish woman attempted to open an exit door on a British Airways flight from London to Boston on Tuesday, prompting people on the plane to restrain her, the Massachusetts State Police said. "The investigation into this incident indicates this was a case of unruly behavior, with no known connection to terrorism at this point," state police spokesma...

AirBridgeCargo takes delivery of two Boeing 747-8 Freighters

Boeing delivered two 747-8 Freighters to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, and one of the leading international scheduled air cargo carriers. The airplanes are the first to be delivered as part a memorandum of understanding, signed between Boeing and Volga-Dnepr Group at the Paris Air Show in June 2015. The deal calls for more 747-8 Freighters to continue to help AB...

First millionth passenger

Russian Red Wings  airline got first millionth passenger transported during the year. Jubilee passenger became Tuleneva Olga from Moscow became the millionth passenger, she was registered for the flight 415 IN NO Moscow-Rostov-on-Don. Route innaguration was also also held November 16, 2015. There was a special ceremony at the front desk in Moscow's Domodedovo airport to honor of the mi...

Celestial angels: Secrets of AZAL flight attendants

Flight attendant job  is taken as a romantic one, but just few people know what is required in order to become a "celestial angel" - a lot of patience, hard work and physical strength. During 50skyshades visit to Baku we were honoured to find out some secrets, so  we will try to unveil the mysteries of this romantic and at the same time as we are convinced of hard work If yo...

LATAM Defers Aircraft Deliveries in Bid to Save US$3 Billion

Following a third quarter net loss of US$113.3 million exacerbated by a slowing Brazilian economy, LATAM Airlines Group has announced plans to trim up to US$3 billion in fleet capital expenditure for the period 2016 to 2018. LATAM says it has already managed to save US$1.8 billion through the deferral of certain aircraft originally scheduled for delivery in 2017 and 2018. In a statement, t...

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

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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...