Reading Time: < 1 minute Norwegian signs charter contracts with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations to operate routes from the United States to the Caribbean and Mexico. Norwegian has signed charter agreements with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations for the winter season 2017. Norwegian will station three Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Milwaukee and Chicago and operate routes to Mexico and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The flag carrier once again recognised as a leading player in the global airline industry in the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Turkish Airlines has been chosen as “Europe’s Best Airline” for the sixth consecutive years in the 2016 Skytrax World Airlines Awards. Skytrax is the most respected global airline passenger survey organisation in the industry, its World […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On a special signing ceremony, Iceland-based WOW air announced it has selected CFM International CFM56-5B engines to power four new Airbus A321ceo (current engine option) family aircraft. The firm engine order is valued at $85 million U.S. at list price. The airline, which began commercial service in 2011, currently operates a fleet of seven CFM56-5B-powered A320 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Russian specialist cargo company Volga-Dnepr Group has finalized an agreement for the acquisition of 20 Boeing 747-8 freighters. This underpins the operator’s confidence in the future recovery of the air-cargo market, and provides a much-needed lifeline to Boeing’s beleaguered 747 production line. The carrier, which has already taken four of the aircraft announced in the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dubai-based flydubai is partnering with Booking.com to provide travellers with hotels and other accommodation options on its website. Hotels.flydubai.com will offer over 954,000 accommodation options world-wide, and will allow passengers to view guest reviews on booking.com while also book flexibly with a range of payment options. The partnership adds to a host of technology related […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Emirates was named the World’s Best Airline 2016 at the prestigious Skytrax World Airline Awards 2016, in addition to scooping up the awards for World’s Best Inflight Entertainment for a record 12th consecutive year, and Best Airline in the Middle East. Based on the results of the largest airline passenger satisfaction survey in the industry, […]
Reading Time: 1 minute AFI KLM E&M confirms its role as a major player on the burgeoning A350 support market. AFI KLM E&M has won a major call for tenders from Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI), covering component support for its future fleet of Airbus A350s, with twelve aircraft joining the fleet from this summer. AFI KLM […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Virgin Atlantic said it would buy Airbus Group SE A350 long-range planes while retaining the option to eventually take the aircraft maker’s A380 superjumbo. Virgin Atlantic said it would introduce 12 A350-1000 planes at a list price value of $4.3 billion. The airline would receive the first one in 2019, Chief Executive Craig Kreeger said […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The start-up cargo carrier will operate Boeing 747s. Creation of a start-up cargo carrier called Sky Gates Airlines, which will be based at the newly opened Zhukovskiy Airport near Moscow, was announced at the airport’s opening ceremony. Russian Aviation Insider talked to the new airline’s general director Pyotr Morozov to find out some details. Morozov […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute • First half of the year 2016: Number of passengers up 2.2 percent • June 2016: 1.1 percent increase in passenger volume to almost 1,1 million Austrian Airlines carried almost 5.1 million passengers in the period January to June 2016, comprising a rise of 2.2 percent in a year-on-year comparison. The flight offering measured in […]