Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, has identified Mexico City and Berlin as the most attractive new destinations that would become available with longer-range jets and expanded air-service treaties. Flights from Dubai to the Mexican capital would be possible with Boeing Co.’s new 777X plane, for which Emirates is due to be the first customer in 2020, while a Berlin ser...
Etihad Airways has announced plans to increase its services to Morocco with the launch of a new twice-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and Rabat. Scheduled to start on January 15, 2016, and providing the only scheduled air link between the UAE and Rabat, the new service will be operated on Wednesdays and Fridays using an A340-500 aircraft configured to carry a total of 240 passengers. The ne...
Emirates Airlines has introduced its new generation in-flight entertainment (IFE) system which features larger screens in First Class and Economy Class and three times the media storage. The new products can now be found on Emirates' newly-delivered Boeing 777-300ER and Airbus A380 aircraft, the airline said in a statement. Passengers travelling in First Class will have a more immer...
Shenzhen Airlines (ZH), Shenzhen Airlines (ZH), a subsidiary of Air China (CA) recently has completed its two-year's cabin refurbishment, making the nation's leading airline with most luxury single-aisle cabins. Since 2013, the Shenzhen-based carrier has renovated cabin interiors of its 36 aircraft, including 22 Airbus A320s and 14 Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Considering into passenge...
Some of Australia's highest-profile business leaders say they'd like major airlines to ban children from traveling in business class, due to their often disruptive behavior ruining the expensive "up-market" experience. The chairman of Australian flight booking company Web Jet, David Clarke, said he would prefer "screaming kids" to be barred from the premium end...
China's "Big Three" airlines are outpacing most of their regional competitors on profit margins, as they benefit from government backing and improved reservation systems. Air China Ltd.'s margin on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, also known as Ebitda, was 23.2 percent on a trailing 12-month basis. China Eastern Airlines Corp. and China Sout...
United Continental Holdings Inc and its airline pilots union reached an agreement in principle on Friday to extend the labor contract that covers United's more than 12,000 pilots by two years, the airline said. United's contract with the Air Line Pilots Association International (ALPA) had been due to run through early 2017. The union and United, the second-largest U.S. airline by...
A suspicious package found at Airbus factory site in Toulouse sparked a terror alert as 200 people were evacuated. The item -- believed to be a box containing three cans of fizzy pop connected with wires -- raised suspicions that it could be a homemade bomb. It was found in the engine of an Airbus A330 that was still being built. But police and bomb squad experts who arrived at the scene...
The CFM International LEAP-1A engine, one of two engine choices on the Airbus A320neo, has been jointly certified by FAA and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Airbus is set to deliver the first A320neo -- powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines -- to Qatar Airways next month. The LEAP-1A-powered A320neo began flight testing in May. "It has been an incredible journe...
328 Support Services and German-based Private Wings have signed a five year follow on MRO contract Private Wings is one of the largest Dornier 328 operators in Europe, operating a fleet of eight 328-100 turboprops and two 328 jets out of its base at the general aviation terminal of Manching Airport (near Ingolstadt). Founded in 1991, independently owned Private Wings offers ad hoc charter,an...
World Fuel Services has announced that six new locations have signed with the Air Elite Network since EBACE 2015. The Air Elite Network has now 49 Diamond Service FBOs. The Air Elite Network is working towards opening up 150 worldwide locations. The new members since EBACE 2015 in Geneva are Sky Services in Milan and Venice, Italy; Dassault Falcon Services in Paris Le Bourget, France; Kaiser...
South African Airways (SAA) has taken a decision to suspend its Chief Commercial Officer, Mr Sylvain Bosc, pursuant to a forensic investigation by ENSafrica into various allegations that were received through the Deloittes Tip Offs hotline. The forensic investigation confirmed that there is substance to a tip-off allegation which suggested that: “Sylvain doctored the numbers for Abu Dhabi...
