Qatar Airways has bought a 9.61% stake in Cathay Pacific for US $662 million in an attempt for the airline to gain a greater presence in the Asian market. Bloomberg reports that the airline will buy the shares from Hong-Kong based Kingboard Chemical Holdings Ltd. and related companies, making it the first ever investment from a Middle-Eastern…
Australia’s Jetstar Airways has launched a refurbishment program for its A320 fleet, rearranging the configuration of their aircraft to fit an extra row of seats – without reducing legroom. 9NEWS reports that the airline’s renewal strategy has a multi-million dollar value and involves a major reconfiguration of the airplanes. Over a twelve-day period, the cabins are stripped apart…
A US company will be paid between US$20 million and US$70 million ($26 to $91 million) if it finds any trace of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 within 90 days of beginning a new search. Malaysia’s deputy transport minister says the nation’s cabinet has accepted “in principle” an offer from Ocean Infinity to search a…
The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading Widebody family, has successfully completed its Functional & Reliability testing, bringing the aircraft a step closer to Type Certification in November 2017. The first customer delivery to Qatar Airways will follow in the coming weeks. The Functional and Reliability Testing took the flight test aircraft, MSN065, across…
Emirates Airline (Emirates) Chairman and Chief Executive Sheikh Al-Maktoum said at today’s delivery ceremony of the airlines 100th A380, “We hope we will be able to order new A380s next week at Dubai Air Show. The details are being worked out.” “The A380 has been a success for Emirates,” Sheik Al-Maktoum said. “We use the aircraft for…
The only father-daughter team on the British Airways’s Boeing 777 flew together for the final time yesterday. David Woodruffe’s final flight with his daughter Kat, 35, landed at London Heathrow airport after completing his retirement flight from New York. After joining the airline in 1984, Woodruffe held the role of captain. He said he felt…
Emirates, the world’s largest A380 operator, is set to receive its milestone 100th A380 aircraft on 3rd November. Over 80 million passengers have flown on the superjumbo in the nine years since it first joined Emirates’ modern fleet. Today, Emirates flies the A380 to over 45 destinations spanning Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East,…
Singapore Airlines on Thursday unveiled new seats for its Airbus A380, its first major cabin overhaul in a decade. The highlight, however, was the new first class: six suites, down from 12, which were redesigned to feature beds that sit perpendicular to the windows and a wall that can come down to join, should you…
Germany’s second largest airline ‘Air Berlin’ has ended flight operations on October 27th. What will become of aircraft, routes and employees now? This Article will inform you about everything there is to know. Well, first of all, the Air Berlin brand is not entirely gone yet. Its Austria-registered subsidiary airline Niki is still operating flights…
Eurowings Europe employees are warning about joining the airline due to low wages and bad working conditions ‘below Ryanair level’. An open letter by Eurowings employees said: “Lufthansa used to stand for reliability, fairness, social responsibility and justice, but this has changed with the foundation of Eurowings Europe”. They say most people working for Eurowings Europe…
A seven-year-old girl who ran away from her parents managed to take a train to Geneva airport and board an easyJet plane despite having no ticket. The girl gave her parents the slip near Geneva’s central railway station on Sunday (Oct29), then took the one-stop ride to the airport. Her parents rang the Swiss police,…
A man and a woman were busted Sunday on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Detroit. Officials said the two were total strangers before boarding the plane. A woman was arrested on the airplane for performing oral sex on a man while they were in their seats. The 48-year-old woman was heading to Nashville,…