Jetstar says improved conditions around Bali Airport will allow the low-cost carrier to operate three recovery flights to the Indonesian tourist destination on Friday. Passengers on the two Bali-Perth flights and one Bali-Melbourne service, which are scheduled for daylight hours on Friday, will be contacted by email and SMS, Jetstar said in a statement. The airline also cautioned that the fl...
Already having the world’s 4th largest flight network and flying to 279 destinations in 110 countries, Turkish Airlines continues to grow by adding a new flight destination. With Durban (South Africa) flights, its destinations in Africa have been increased to 46. Turkish Airlines, ranked the “Best Airline in Europe”* for the fifth consecutive times adds Durban to its global ne...
Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSG), the leading provider of medium wide-body aircraft leasing, air cargo transportation and related services, today reported consolidated financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. Results for the third quarter of 2015, compared with the third quarter of 2014, are as follows: Revenues increased three percent to $142.3 milli...
Looking to offer more and better options for its leisure passengers, Avianca announces its new flight between Bogota, Colombia and the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados in the Lesser Antilles, starting on December 2nd. The new Bogota to Bridgetown direct flights, with flying time of just three hours and 10 minutes, will be operated on Wednesdays and Saturdays using Airbus A318 100-seater a...
BOC Aviation Pte. Ltd. (“BOC Aviation”) is pleased to announce that it has added its first two new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft to its fleet. Both of the wide-body aircraft have been placed on long-term leases to Kenya Airways Ltd. (“Kenya Airways”) following the successful Sale and Leaseback transaction between the two companies. “We are excited to bring...
Fiji Airways, Fiji’s National Airline, has announced plans to commence twice weekly direct services to Singapore from April 5th, 2016. The flights will operate from Nadi International Airport on Tuesdays and Fridays*, with flights times to suit onward connections to India and South East Asia. The airline also announced special launch fare from Nadi to Singapore, starting from F$999** all-inc...
If it is harder to get into an airline seat, does that mean it is harder to get out of the plane in an emergency? Probably not, researchers say. But it turns out no one knows for sure yet. Airline regulators haven't formally studied evacuations under the tighter space conditions that now exist on many airplanes. While even some in Congress have asked if the squeeze of air travel sea...
On St Patrick's Day, American Airlines set round-trip business class fares from several U.S. cities to Beijing and Shanghai at US$0 and US$20 for five hours. Nearly 1200 people who weren't preoccupied with shamrocks and green beer jumped on the fares, about half of them buying immediately and half putting the reservation on a hold, per U.S. federal rules allowing people to cancel a...
Qantas will boost its Perth-Singapore flights to daily and add extra services between Sydney and Hong Kong over summer as the airline continues its Asian expansion with increased fleet utilisation and a flexible schedule designed to cater to peak demand. Launched with five services a week in June, Qantas will add an extra two flights a week on the Singapore-Perth route from December 1 to offer...
The A350-1000’s new engine – the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 – has successfully made its first flight-test aboard Airbus’ dedicated A380 “Flying-Test-Bed” aircraft. The aircraft took off from Airbus’ facilities in Toulouse and performed a flight of 4 hours, 14 mins during which the engine covered a wide range of power settings at altitudes up to 35,000ft. The...
Russia's airline regulator said it was suspending flying certificates for Boeing 737s currently in use in the country until it receives notification that the planes are safe to fly. The statement by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), dated Nov. 4, did not immediately ground flights. A spokesman for Rosaviatsya, Russia's aviation watchdog, which is obliged to comply with IAC s...
Deutsche Lufthansa AG faces its longest-ever strike after flight attendants rejected the airline's latest offer in a long-running dispute over savings efforts aimed at weathering competition from low-cost rivals such as Ryanair. Cabin crew are set to halt work Friday afternoon, the UFO labor union said in a statement Thursday, without specifying the exact time or routes and airports th...
