Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa’s pilots have voted in favor of industrial action, provoking further disruption during the busy summer travel season. There is a possibility of a pilot strike. The vote does not necessarily mean a strike. Still, it signaled to the employer that it had to take constructive steps, pilot’s union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) board member Marcel […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute After more than ten years, Air France will resume flights between Paris (CDG) and Newark (EWR) in December 2022. The flight will operate daily by a Boeing 777 with the following schedule: AF62 Paris to Newark departing 12:30 PM arriving 3:00PM AF63 Newark to Paris departing 5:05 PM arriving 6:05 AM (+1 day) With this […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute British Airways and Iberia owner IAG has placed a multi-billion-dollar order for 37 A320neo jets from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. It will convert 12 options into firm orders for A320neos and A321neos and it will also order another 25 A320neo family planes with the option to purchase 50 more. It is already IAG’s third short-haul […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On July 15th, Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, broke its occupancy record. “Yesterday, we hosted more than 260,000 passengers with an occupancy rate of over 87%. We had the busiest day in Turkish Airlines history,” the carrier’s senior vice president for media relations, Yahya Ustun, said on Twitter. It represents an increase in capacity […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes These days aviation is reviving, creating a pilot shortage, capacity-related and other issues for airlines, so the relevance of the pilot profession gains momentum. However, as the industry and the role are highly safety-sensitive, one cannot rest assured they get the job easily as many different factors come into play. In the interview below, Deputy […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Scandinavian airline SAS has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US because striking pilots have contributed to its existing problems. The move will allow the airline to continue operations and bring forward plans to restructure its finances. “During the weekend, to our great surprise, we have seen that many flights are being deployed to popular […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes BAA Training, one of the TOP three leading independent aviation training providers in Europe and expanding globally, a family member of Avia Solutions Group, leaders in end-to-end capacity solutions for passenger and cargo airlines worldwide, has signed a partnership agreement with Air France. Under this contract, BAA Training will be providing the French carrier with […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air has wet-leased a B737-800 from Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines to add to its Sofia base operations. The ten-year-old Boeing aircraft had been stored from February 18 to June 22 at Belgrade airport. After that, it operated charter flights under SkyUp’s code before the ACMI agreement with Wizz Air. The Ukrainian LCC has been placing […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes BAA Training Vietnam, a cutting-edge aviation training centre in Ho Chi Minh City and a part of Avia Solutions Group, enters a long-term business partnership with Vietravel Airlines, Asia’s leading travel airline owned by Vietravel Holdings, by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for five-year comprehensive cooperation and Type Rating service agreement. The agreement outlines the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute EasyJet has agreed to purchase 56 Airbus A320neo aircraft and convert a previous order to 18 new A321neo aircraft, the British airline said on Tuesday. According to the company, deliveries of the aircraft, which have a list price of $6.5 billion, will begin in the carrier’s 2026 financial year to replace the carrier’s older A319 […]