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Royal Brunei Airlines' first all-female pilot crew touches down in Saudi Arabia

Delta expands network between North America, Europe and India codeshare with Jet Airways and KLM

Delta Air Lines has entered into a codeshare partnership with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Jet Airways to provide convenient connections for passengers to and from key destinations across North America to the Indian Subcontinent via Amsterdam. Effective March 27, 2016, Jet Airways, Indi...

Lease deal with Adria Airways supports Air Serbia network growth

Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, has signed an agreement to lease a Bombardier CRJ-900 aircraft from Adria Airways to support its growing network. The aircraft, which is configured with 86 seats and will be leased between the busy summer months of June and Septembe...

Air Canada Partners with Manitoba Government for Centre of Maintenance in Province

Air Canada today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Manitoba Government to help establish a Western Canada Centre of Excellence for certain aircraft maintenance activities in the Province. Under the agreement, Air Canada will bring to Manitoba three of its aviation suppliers and partners with unique expertise and capabilities. The Centre is expected to create 150 jobs startin...

DOT keeps Norwegian Air in limbo

Ultra-low-cost carrier Norwegian Air is already making its imprint on transatlantic air travel. Beginning in May, the carrier will offer 29 nonstop routes from nine destinations in the U.S. and U.S. territories to London, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Bergen, Norway, often at prices that can’t be matched by the three major airline alliances’ member carriers. But even as Norwegian...

Satellite pioneer SkyFi’s Vision: Worldwide internet access

More reliable than underwater cables, easily expandable, and capable of almost limitless communication – that’s the promise of a new nano satellite-based network being developed by Israeli satellite startup SkyFi. “Not only will we be able to develop a worldwide Internet, we will be able to enable any type of communication between two points – telephone, digital, and eve...

Juneyao Air Aims to Double Fleet as Disney Lands in Shanghai

Juneyao Airlines Co. aims to double its fleet by 2020, expecting the mid-year opening of Disney’s Shanghai park and more tourist travel to further drive flight demand as the privately run Chinese carrier considers joining a global alliance. “The potential for growth is huge,” company Chairman Wang Junjin told reporters Sunday on the sidelines of the National People’s Con...

Portland-Bound Hellfire Missiles Found On Air Serbia Flight: Report

Serbian authorities are investigating reports that two missiles were found in cargo headed to the U.S on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia, The Associated Press reports. The cargo containing the pair of "armor-piercing missiles" aboard an Air Serbia flight from Beirut was discovered Saturday at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, the AP reports, citing Serbian television. The missi...

Air NZ and Virgin Australia launch search for aviation biofuel opportunities

Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia today announced a partnership to investigate options for locally produced aviation biofuel. The trans-Tasman alliance partners are issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to the market to explore the opportunity to procure locally-produced aviation biofuel. Air New Zealand Chief Flight Operations and Safety Officer Captain David Morgan says the airline re...

Etihad Airways' President and CEO addresses global cargo conference in Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways’ President and CEO addresses global cargo conference in Abu Dhabi Etihad Airways ’ President and Chief Executive Officer James Hogan gave the opening address to more than 1,200 delegates attending the World Cargo Alliance (WCA) Conference taking place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre between March 10 and 13. Mr Hogan spoke in depth about changes in...

Why Do Airplanes Still Have Ashtrays?

If you think about it, airplanes have more no-smoking signs than passengers—they’re above every seat, on every safety card in in each seat pocket, and so on. So why in the world is there still an ashtray on every lavatory door, usually just below one or two more no-smoking signs? (If you’ve never noticed, check it out next time you fly—it’s true.) One explanat...

JetBlue wants to train aspiring pilots with diverse backgrounds

Aspiring pilots, rejoice. JetBlue has launched a program to select and train everyday folks to fly a commercial jet. JetBlue's pilots don't like the idea, saying there are already plenty of experienced pilots ready to work for JetBlue. The pilot recruiting and training program, dubbed Gateway Select, is designed to make “the profession more accessible to a broader range of cand...

United Airlines takes off with biofuel

A Boeing 737 jet that took off from Los Angeles International Airport on Friday morning looked like most other planes launching into the partly cloudy skies. But this San Francisco-bound United Airlines flight was preceded by speeches and fanfare because the plane’s engines were powered by a blend of petroleum-based fuel and sustainable biofuel, brewed at a Southern California refinery fr...

Why is nobody talking about Air India's losses worth Rs 30k cr: Mohandas Pai

Amidst a row over beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya leaving India in the middle of a massive loan default probe, former top official of Infosys, T V Mohandas Pai has sought to know why questions are not being raised about the massive losses of Air India, and called for a system for recovery or settlement of loans. "Air India has lost about Rs 30,000 crore. Why don't you hold the peo...

British Airways and Iran Agree to 42 Flights a Week

Iranian State Media announced this week that flights between Iran and the United Kingdom will resume, with British Airways planning for the flights to begin in July 2016.  The two countries signed an agreement this week that details that number of flights on a weekly basis. The announcement comes shortly after Iran made an international agreement about its nuclear program.  In Decembe...

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Air France expands its U.S. footprint with new Nashville and San Diego services for summer 2027

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