Category: Airline Articles

Aloha Airlines has announced it will end all flights and stop operations tomorrow. That will be the last day for inter-island and cross-Pacific flights.
The airline, which filed for bankruptcy protection last week, has already stopped selling tickets.
Aloha says it has cancelled tomorrow’s flights to the West Coast and flights from Orange County to Reno and […]

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Just how long can the Arabian Gulf carriers maintain their rapid growth? The carriers seem to think it will last a lot longer, if their recent aircraft orders are any guide.
Yet the sheer scale of the ambition of the Gulf carriers is starting to cause alarm among their more established competitors. With the global economy […]

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SIX aircraft flying into Sydney Airport have been hit in a co-ordinated attack by blinding green lights in what safety officials say is the city’s worst laser attack.
Air traffic controllers closed the approach flight path and diverted incoming aircraft to a different runway on Friday night, forcing some flights to land up to half an […]

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SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is phasing out the executive economy class on its non-stop flights to the United States but other airlines are getting into the business. Premium economy, as the name implies, is better than coach but not as luxurious as business or first class. Passengers get more leg-room, wider seats and better amenities than […]

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Israel will within weeks begin outfitting its airliners with defense systems designed to thwart missile attacks, Israeli military officials said.
The officials said the system fires flares that distract an incoming missile’s heat-seeking mechanism. It will be installed first on planes flying to destinations considered dangerous, especially in Africa and parts of Asia.
  Other nations, including the […]

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Airline mergers may be off the table, for now, but a major industry reordering is still under way as United, Delta and Northwest Airlines contemplate deep cuts to withstand skyrocketing oil prices and a slowing economy.
Prompting executives to action: fuel costs that have soared by more than 20 percent since January and a heart-stopping drop […]

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With the opening up of Indian aviation to foreigners, pilots from Sri Lanka have been eyeing the expanding Indian job market.
At least 15 of them, including three or four expatriates, have joined one Indian airline or the other in recent months, a spokesman of the Sri Lankan Pilots Association told IANS.
‘Jet Airways and Kingfisher are […]

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Singapore Airline’s business class seats each measure 76 centimetres wide and can be converted into a fully flat bed.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will offer an all-business class seating on its non-stop flights to Los Angeles and New York starting in mid-May, the carrier said Tuesday.
The decision to remove economy seats and offer only business class […]

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Qatar Airways today announced the introduction of a fourth daily non-stop flight between Doha and London Heathrow taking the airline’s capacity between Qatar and the UK up to 42 services a week.
Effective March 30, the new late afternoon departure from Doha offers passengers more choice to the early morning and lunchtime flights to Britain’s busiest […]

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Emirates’ giant Airbus A380s will spread their wings to some of the furthest points on the airline’s network – New York, London Heathrow, Sydney and Auckland – reinforcing the airline’s extensive reach and span.   Emirates is scheduled to operate its new A380s non-stop from Dubai to New York on 1st October, London Heathrow on […]

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Emirates is set to cause a major stir on the trans-Tasman route, after confirming plans to deploy the world’s largest passenger jet on its Sydney to Auckland services from February next year.
The Dubai-based carrier announced this morning it will deploy its first 489-seat Airbus A380s on its New York route from October and London from […]

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The Boeing Company today delivered its 1,400th 747, a 747-400 Freighter delivered to GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) for lease to AirBridgeCargo Airlines, a subsidiary of the Volga-Dnepr Group.
"We are honored to receive the 1,400th Boeing 747," said Gennady Pivovarov, senior vice president of Production, AirBridgeCargo Airlines. "The 747 is a high-quality, reliable airplane that […]

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It is the flying kangaroo meets the sleeping dragon: Qantas will be one of the first airlines to fly in when the world’s biggest airport, Beijing’s huge new international Terminal 3, opens for business tomorrow night.
With its long tail, golden roof and triangular-shaped skylights resembling scales, the $US3 billion-plus ($3.2 billion) terminal is designed to […]

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Qatar Airways is expanding operations in Germany by stepping up frequency between Doha and Berlin to daily scheduled services, effective February 1.
From four to seven flights a week, the award-winning airline will offer business and leisure travellers to and from Berlin with more greater choice and more convenience.
The additional frequencies will also offer passengers […]

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Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, today announced it will launch six-weekly non-stop services to the south Indian city of Kozhikode (Calicut), starting 1st July 2008. Boosting air connections between the booming Indian and Arabian Gulf economies, Kozhikode will become the third city in the state of Kerala to be served with non-stop Emirates flights from […]

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Driven by demand from rich Middle Eastern clients and high-flying businessmen, the market for luxury private jets is booming, industry leaders said at the close of the Singapore Airshow.
"We have orders that will keep us busy until 2011-2012. Never in the past did we see such demand," says Bernd Habbel of Germany’s Lufthansa Technik.
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A Qantas jumbo jet was given priority landing clearance as it arrived in Sydney yesterday after its flight crew noticed an "odour" in the cockpit.
Qantas said flight QF566 from Perth to Sydney was given priority clearance to land last night after it "developed an odour in the cockpit" as it approached Sydney.
The flight crew responded […]

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A Singapore Airlines jet shut down one of its two engines after suffering mechanical trouble today but landed safely in Japan, transportation officials said. There were no injuries reported.
The Boeing 777-200 plane, flying from Singapore to Nagoya, reported the trouble about 30 minutes before arriving, said Yasuki Shigeno, a Transport Ministry official at the Central […]

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Japan Airlines is looking at buying some Airbus A350 XWB planes after production delays for Boeing’s 787, two company sources said.
Boeing faces increasing customer ire after announcing last month a second delay for the 787, pushing first deliveries out until early 2009 and the industry has been watching to see if any airlines will switch […]

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Continental Airlines said on Thursday it ordered 27 more planes from Boeing, in a deal worth USD$2.5 billion at list prices.
Orders in the US market have been sluggish for Boeing, with airlines financially stretched after a five-year slump that ended in 2006, and a new downturn looming.
Continental, one of the few major US airlines with […]

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