Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1-millionth passenger on the route from Hamburg to the New York hub of Newark Liberty International was welcomed at Hamburg Airport. The successful long-haul route has been operated by the US carrier, United Airlines, since 10 June, 2005. The lucky 1-millionth passenger on the route was Annemarie Kotte from Hamburg. The jubilee guest was […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cebu Pacific has ordered Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines, with TotalCare® long-term engine services, to power two new Airbus A330 aircraft. The Philippines-based airline already operates six of the aircraft, all powered by the Trent 700. The Trent 700 delivers the best fuel burn, emissions and noise performance, resulting in market leadership on the aircraft. The […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air France will begin 3X-weekly Paris Charles de Gaulle-Accra (Ghana, West Africa) services on Feb. 28, 2017. Beginning March 28, 2017, Air France’s 208-seat Airbus A330 service will be upgraded to a 312-seat Boeing 777-200 for the summer season. Air France chairman and CEO Frédéric Gagey said partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operates daily flights […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Indonesian capital’s airport opened a new terminal Tuesday after years of operating at far above its passenger capacity. Domestic flights for national carrier Garuda began operating in the morning from Soekarno-Hatta airport’s steel and glass $560 million Terminal 3. Its international flights will shift to the new terminal next month. Other airlines will gradually […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute American Airlines’ passenger traffic at Philadelphia International Airport has declined a whopping 7.4 percent in the past 365 days, according to a published report, in large part because it discontinued a daily flight to Tel Aviv. Since that route was discontinued after American claimed it was not working economically, the airline has lost some 250 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute As regulators worldwide search for a solution to the ever-increasing problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are also called, a further incident has occurred at Germany’s Munich Airport between a UAV and a Lufthansa A321 on its approach to the airport on August 4. The plane in question was on a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dubai International’s (DXB) passenger traffic reached a record 40.5 million passengers in the first half of 2016 according to the traffic report issued by operator Dubai Airports. According to the report, DXB handled a total of 40,506,456 passengers during the first half, up 5.8 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2015 when the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Delta will provide $200 in travel vouchers to all customers who experienced a delay of greater than three hours or a cancelled flight as a result of today’s systemwide outage. UPDATED: The vouchers are available for travel on all Delta and Delta Connection-operated flights. “We know that travelers value our commitment to excellent operational performance, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes American Airlines (Nasdaq:AAL) and the TWU-IAM Association announced they have reached an interim agreement to provide significant pay increases to the 30,000 maintenance, fleet service and other related employees represented by the TWU-IAM Association. The pay increases will go into place immediately while the negotiating committees continue working toward a joint collective bargaining agreement for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Jetstar Airways flight JQ12 with 320 people on board has made an emergency landing on the U.S. island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. Plane was flying from Tokyo to Australia’s Gold Coast. An engine was shut down in mid-flight as a precaution The decision to shut down the engine was taken after the crew […]