Qantas Airways Ltd is to increase the number of flights to the United States to a record 47 a week, just a month after applying for unlimited capacity under an "open skies" agreement that gives American and Australian carriers unlimited access to the route.
A generational low in the US dollar is encouraging Australians to travel […]

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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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The Abu Dhabi-based carrier will operate a total of 728 weekly flights this summer compared to 494 in the same season last year, with the launch of new services to Beijing in China on 30 March and Calicut in India in June being the highlights of the summer schedule.
In addition to the two new […]

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All Nippon Airways, the first customer for Boeing’s 787 plane, has demanded that the plane maker provide a delivery schedule for the twice-delayed aircraft by the end of this month, on which it will base compensation claims.
All Nippon, with 50 of Boeing’s 787 planes on order, is expanding its fleet by 15% and needs the […]

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An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 174 people skidded off the runway in heavy rain while landing on the island of Batam today, injuring five people, an airline spokesman and a doctor said.
The Boeing 737-400 operated by local budget carrier Adam Air overshot the runway on Batam, which is an Indonesian island near Singapore, damaging its […]

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National carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines said on Monday it agreed to buy eight Boeing aircraft worth nearly $1.3 billion as it looks to modernize its small fleet and fight off competition from local rivals.
Boeing had offered to supply the airline with four twin-aisle 777-300s by 2013 and four 787-8s Dreamliners by 2017, Biman Chairman Mahbub […]

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Qatar Airways unveiled its summer 2008 expansion programme with capacity increases to numerous destinations across its global network and the launch of its fourth destination in China - the southern industrial port city of Guangzhou.
A dozen cities will see more flights added to existing frequencies to offer passengers greater choice. Guangzhou becomes Qatar Airways’ first […]

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Bahraini flag-carrier Gulf Air aims to revamp its current fleet before the first of 16 Boeing 787 aircraft on order is delivered to the carrier in 2016.
During a signing ceremony today for the 787 aircraft in Washington, DC Chairman Mahmood Hashim Al Kooheji told: “We hope to get new aircraft in our fleet next year.” […]

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Air Canada announced today that with its aircraft refurbishment program substantially complete, travellers takingadvantage of the airline’s expanded summer schedule will travel in greatercomfort than ever before.    "Air Canada is passing a milestone in its aircraft interior refurbishmentprogram. The renewal of our regular narrow body fleet will be complete byJune 1 and three quarters of […]

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With even the Prime Minister’s visit to China this January not helping Jet Airways’ efforts to fly to the US west coast via Shanghai, the carrier has all but given up hope on the China front. Now, it has written to the Ministry of Civil Aviation requesting for permission to fly via Hong Kong to […]

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Preliminary investigations into last week’s throttle-response failure on an American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER suggest that a simple inadvertent obstruction of the throttle lever might have been responsible.
The aircraft had been approaching Los Angeles on 28 February, with its engines at flight-idle power and the auto-throttle engaged, when its left-hand powerplant apparently did not respond to […]

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Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has some fascinating new uses for technology, but the ability of cattle-class travellers to get laptop power still remains in the hands of individual airlines.
For the much-discussed and somewhat delayed Dreamliner, Boeing has restricted the ability of airlines to customise the seating in the economy cabin, allowing them to choose from […]

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QANTAS says its new premium economy cabin is already performing strongly as passengers seeking to escape the cattle-class crush upgrade for the additional space and service.The first Boeing 747-400 fitted out with the new premium economy cabin flies today to Hong Kong. Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti said the airline was seeing customers upgrading […]

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SAS Scandinavian Airlines is planning to commence its Copenhagen - San Francisco route during spring next year. It will be SAS’ fifth new intercontinental route within a two-year period, including the new Copenhagen - Delhi route that will launch on October 27.
"This new route shows our commitment to provide our customers with more direct intercontinental […]

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With Houston’s oil and gas sector on its radar screen, Qatar Airways said Wednesday it will start new service later this year between Houston and Doha, Qatar’s capital.
The move marks growth by the Persian Gulf carrier, which says it has expanded about 35 percent a year for the past decade.
The service by Qatar Airways to […]

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Private carrier Kingfisher Airlines has been given the prestigious ‘5-Star Airline Status’ by Skytrax, the world’s leading independent travel forum and air travel information organisation.
The UB Group-promoted Kingfisher Airlines is the only domestic carrier to get this ranking.
The other Indian airlines are Jet Airways and Air India, which have been given three star ratings by […]

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Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways is contemplating a trans-Tasman service to take on existing players, as it moves to beef up its regional services within Australia.
Chief executive Tony Davis said that services from Australia to New Zealand were "on the radar".
Mr Davis told the Australian Aviation Press Club on Thursday that Tiger would take delivery […]

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Etihad Airways plans to launch services to Almaty and Moscow this year, CEO James Hogan said yesterday.
"Last year, we launched nine new routes and our network development will continue this year. We look forward to launching services to Beijing at the end of March - our first route in China," Hogan said at the Middle […]

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Etihad will operate four flights a week from Abu Dhabi to Beijing from 30 March, which will be the eighth city in the Asia-Pacific region on the airline’s rapidly expanding global flight network.
HE Yusheng Gao, Chinese Ambassador to the UAE, said: ‘On behalf of the Chinese Embassy I would like to express my congratulations […]

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BA boosted by first-class traffic   British Airways is to launch business only services to New York  British Airways has said its passenger traffic rose 5.3% in February compared with a year earlier, helped by a 15.1% increase in business and first-class. Its load factor, which shows how full flights are, was up 0.6 percentage points […]

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