Reading Time: < 1 minute When China Airlines received its seventh A350 XWB, the carrier took possession of the 100th jetliner delivered from this newest family in Airbus’ industry-leading widebody product line. The milestone aircraft is an A350-900 version, joining China Airlines’ growing A350 XWB fleet – adding to the line-up of widebody A330s and A340s flown by the long-time […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A year-long campaign has been launched by Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) with a view to increasing baggage handling operations and reducing the number of mishandled bags. Approximately 4 billion bags are carried by airlines on an annual global basis, with 0.43 percent failing to arrive with their owners. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Global carriers with even more global alliance networks mostly have to keep operations safe and efficient and costs lean. Small and midsize airlines need to attract more attention, and one common way of doing that is with striking liveries. But these spiffy looks cannot be achieved without smart design and very good execution by paint […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Blockchain is one of the most discussed and intriguing technologies out there today,” observes Bas de Vos, director of IFS Labs at IFS. “It is a huge, global distributed ledger or database running on many devices and open to anyone within the blockchain. Its purpose is to ensure a 100% secure, verifiable and traceable database […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Oman Air is looking to grow flights into India, but the carrier’s plans don’t include buying any stakes in airling Air India. CEO Paul Gregorowitsch said the Gulf’s history with buying stakes in legacy airlines hasn’t born fruit. “As a businessman, you are far more eager to participate with a profit-making airline and not having […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Samoa’s new international airline Samoa Airways and Fiji Airways have signed an agreement to jointly pursue a range of commercial opportunities. Fiji Airways CEO, Andre Viljoen, said the MOU will allow Fiji Airways to assist Samoa’s new international airline operation to get up and running. He said the objective was to get Samoa’s own airline […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Turkish Airlines chief is looking at buying stakes in airlines across India, China and the US. Speaking to reporters last month, the airline’s CEO Ilker Ayci mentioned he is looking at investing in equity stakes in airlines as a way to offset potential shocks from growing protectionism. “We have grown organically so far, but politicians […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes To increase geographical presence, decrease competition, accelerate expansion – just a few reasons why companies choose business acquisition as an inorganic mode of expansion. With yearly worth of worldwide mergers and acquisitions topping €41 billion it’s only natural that increasing number of deals has been recorded and anticipated in the aviation industry as well. With […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Tri-M.G Boeing 737-300 was performing freight flight from Timika to Wamena (Indonesia), landed on Wamena’s runway 15, but touched down hard, veered left off the runway and came to a stop on rough terrain near the airport perimeter fence. The nose gear and left main gear collapsed and the left wing fractured. There […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air travel is no longer a luxury commodity – on the contrary, it proves to be as indispensable to everyday life as medicine or telecommunications. Apart from occupying a pivotal role in the social development, aviation also brings enormous benefits to modern economies by unlocking their potential for more profitable trade and tourism. Without a […]