Domestic travellers flying Qantas will soon be able to send SMS messages and emails while in the air, but voice calls are off limits for now.
Qantas has committed to implementing the technology following a trial on one of its domestic 767 planes, which ran from April last year to January this year.
Vanessa Hudson, general manager […]

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A KLM flight headed for Hyderabad in India’s south skipped its destination and flew across India because the pilot was unaware the city had a brand-new airport, a report said today.
The confusion occurred barely hours after the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in the Hyderabad suburb of Shamshabad became operational after midnight on Saturday, with flights […]

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Slated to play an important role in the 100-plus destinations on Emirates’ route map, Guangzhou (IATA code: CAN) will be Emirates’ fourth gateway in China, after Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong.
HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group, spoke about the rationale of launching services into the […]

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JETSTAR’S stalled long-haul expansion plans are again under threat, amid fears Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner program could suffer another six-month delay in its delivery schedule.
Boeing has been forced to respond to concerns raised by the largest customer of the 787, the International Lease Finance Corp, that design changes to the centre wing-box of the jet meant […]

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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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Chinese and Indian civil aviation authorities on Wednesday met here to resolve their differences over fifth freedom rights in their air bilateral agreement and it is learnt that the former has, after a lot of persuasion, agreed to allow San Francisco as a ‘beyond point’ for India. Fifth freedom rights refer to the right to […]

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STARTING next month, Turkish Airlines will start daily services between Doha and Istanbul, up from the current four a week.This was disclosed by the president and CEO of the airline Temel Kotil when he met at his headquarters in Istanbul a team of journalists from Qatar.The flights would be shared by Doha and Bahrain, said […]

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Want to travel around Europe by air instead of rail? We found a great section on Lufthansa’s web site that lets you book intra-European flights for as little as $125 roundtrip between several airports in Germany and other European cities—for example, Berlin-Moscow, Frankfurt-Rome, Munich-Prague, etc. And those prices include all taxes and fees. For the […]

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Air France-KLM, the world’s biggest airline, is expected to close down Alitalia’s cargo operations if its takeover bid for the ailing Italian carrier succeeds.
The Franco-Dutch airline made a 138-million euro [$215-million] offer for Alitalia over the weekend which the state-controlled Italian airline immediately accepted even though it was an 80-percent discount to its share price […]

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Virgin America began flying today between Seattle and San Francisco, offering three daily nonstop flights between the two cities.
On April 8, the airline will add flights between Seattle and Los Angeles (LAX), at first with three daily flights and then a fourth flight between Seattle and L.A. beginning May 11.
Virgin America is based in San […]

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The Airbus A380 superjumbo took off today from Singapore’s Changi Airport for its inaugural commercial flight to London, the jet’s first European destination.
Flight SQ308, operated by A380 launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA), departed Changi Airport’s new Terminal 3 at 9:19 am (0119 GMT).
The flight is scheduled to land at London’s Heathrow Airport around 12-13 hours […]

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A former New Zealand immigration minister has labelled the state airline a "flying sweat shop" for paying Chinese flight attendants little more than a quarter of their New Zealand colleagues’ wages.
Tuariki John Delamere, now an immigration consultant, said today that Air New Zealand’s attitude was "disgusting" in paying more than 30 Chinese workers less than […]

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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will soon return to Detroit Metro Airport when it begins daily, nonstop flights between Detroit and Amsterdam, beginning March 30.
 KLM served Detroit until 2003, when joint-venture partner Northwest Airlines assumed operation of all flights from Detroit to Europe for Northwest/KLM. The addition of the new, KLM-operated flight on this route will […]

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Singapore - Singapore Airlines said Wednesday that it would start flying the world’s largest passenger plane to Tokyo on May 20, the carrier’s third Airbus 380 destination and its first in Asia. Service to Tokyo’s Narita Airport would begin after Singapore Airlines starts to fly daily to and from London with the sumperjumbo jet on […]

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Emirates, one of the world’s most successful and fastest-growing international airlines, is set to expand its network even further this year with the start of services to the West Coast of the U.S.On 1st September 2008 Emirates will open its third U.S. gateway with non-stop flights between the Californian city of Los Angeles and Dubai. […]

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AerCap Holdings today announced that it has signedagreements to lease 10 new Airbus A330-200 aircraft to the Russian nationalcarrier Aeroflot for lease periods between nine and 10 years. The aircraftare part of the order for 20 A330s that AerCap placed with Airbus inDecember 2006 and increased by another 10 aircraft in March 2007.
The aircraft for […]

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As of April 1st, 2008, Lufthansa German Airlines will fly Non stop from Dammam to Frankfurt three times a week and four times a week from Bahrain on First, Business and Economy class with the Airbus 330-300 (A 333) thus enabling the airline to offer daily non-stops flights throughout the week for the Eastern province. […]

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Singapore Airlines said its third Airbus A380, the world’s largest commercial jet, arrived Wednesday in the city-state ahead of its deployment on the carrier’s service between London and the city-state.
Singapore Airlines Ltd. took delivery of the double-decker jet at the Airbus delivery center in Toulouse, France, on Tuesday, the airline said in a statement. […]

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The award was adjudicated according to stringent quality standards and procedures and the working relationship between Malaysia’s flag carrier and its flight caterers. 
Emirates Flight Catering Company was awarded the prestigious “Malaysia Airlines Best Caterer” prize at a special presentation ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur last week. The ceremony was attended by Malaysia Airlines’ Chairman, […]

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