On Friday, three major US airlines’ ban against so-called “hoverboards” goes into effect. American, United, and Delta banned the devices on Thursday out of concern that their lithium ion batteries could be a fire hazard on a flight. According to the Los Angeles Times, British Airways will also reject the self-balancing devices. In a statement,…
The Boeing board of directors has raised the company’s authorisation for its share repurchase program to $14 billion and declared that the company’s quarterly dividend will increase 20 per cent to $1.09 per share. “Once again, we are demonstrating our commitment to a balanced cash deployment strategy that fuels investments in our people, innovation and…
London Gatwick has continued to lay the groundwork for expansion following its busiest ever November – 2.6 million passengers travelled through the airport, up 7.3 per cent on the previous year. The government has made clear that it will choose between Gatwick and Heathrow expansion in the summer. Destinations contributing to this growth include North…
Etihad Airways and Cognizant have announced a strategic agreement to drive digital transformation across the airline and its equity partners. Under the three-year deal, Cognizant will help Etihad Airways define its digital strategy and reimagine the guest experience along a guest’s travel journey across the group. Details
British Airways is preparing for Christmas 2015 with more than 450 of its pilots expecting to fly 35,000 customers across the world on December 25th. At the same time, easyJet has predicted this Friday to be the busiest Christmas getaway day in the airline’s history – with more than 204,000 passengers set to fly on…
A plane was forced to make an emergency landing when a piece of the wing ‘fell off’ mid-flight. One passenger on the Southwest Airlines flight from from Austin to Harlingen in Texas, U.S. took a photo of the wing from his seat that the airline have said was at ‘an irregular angle.’ The Boeing 737…
Etihad Airways have signed a strategic relationship agreement with Swiss AviationSoftware, which will enable the airline and its equity partners to move to a common maintenance platform, and provide them with the required commercial and operating flexibility throughout their fleet. Swiss-AS will also provide the software solution to Etihad Airways Partners including airberlin, Alitalia and…
Amadeus has launched Amadeus Airline Cloud Availability, which aims to support airlines in coping with steadily rising search and shopping requests. Amadeus Airline Cloud Availability was piloted by Lufthansa earlier this year using the Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. It enables instances of airline data and revenue management logic to be deployed remotely in the cloud,…
Emirates will boost its services to Riyadh with the addition of a third daily flight to the Saudi capital from 15 December 2015. The addition of the third daily service will take the total number of weekly Emirates flights serving Riyadh to 21. Details
Emirates will boost its services to Riyadh with the addition of a third daily flight to the Saudi capital from 15 December 2015. The addition of the third daily service will take the total number of weekly Emirates flights serving Riyadh to 21. Details
Etihad Airways have signed a strategic relationship agreement with Swiss AviationSoftware (Swiss-AS), which will enable the airline and its equity partners to move to a common maintenance platform, and provide them with the required commercial and operating flexibility throughout their fleet. Details