NEWS Etihad teams up with Brand USA
Etihad Airways has teamed up with Brand USA, a destination marketing organisation for the United States, highlighting its commitment to boosting tourism to the USA from points across its extensive global network.
Want a Million Air Miles? Try to Hack United Airlines!
United Airlines is offering up to a million air miles to hackers who can find security bugs in its network. The move comes amid increasing cybersecurity threats to businesses, with the cost of data breaches likely to hit On its website, United Airlines lists the types of threats that are eligible for submission into its…
NEWS Finnair builds route network with oneworld codeshare deals
Finnair is strengthening ties with fellow oneworld alliance members Japan Airlines and Qantas with new codeshare services to Busan, South Korea and Perth, Australia. Finnair passengers can now enjoy more convenient access to Busan with Japan Airlines daily service via Tokyo Narita. South Korea’s second-largest city has a population of 3.6 million with growing economic…
NEWS Revenue up but losses continue at LATM Airlines
LATAM Airlines Group has reported strong operating results for first quarter 2015, with operating income reaching US$227 million, 102 per cent higher than the US$113 million reported in first quarter 2014. Operating margin reached 8.1 per cent at the South American group, compared to 3.5 per cent in the same period 2014. The significant margin…
NEWS Norwegian adds winter sun routes out of UK to the Canary Islands
Norwegian has announced further expansion in the UK with three new routes set to launch from Edinburgh and Birmingham airports to the Canary Islands this winter. In total, Norwegian is adding almost 100,000 seats between the destinations.
NEWS Etihad continues battle to highlight US aviation subsidies
Research commissioned by Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has quantified a range of government and court-sanctioned benefits and concessions received by the three biggest US carriers, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and American Airlines Group, and other airlines with which they have merged. According to Etihad research, these US airlines…
NEWS Lufthansa brings new app to Apple Watch
Use your watch as a boarding card and have your essential flight information displayed on your wrist – Lufthansa is now offering this innovation to its guests with an app developed especially for the new Apple Watch. It serves as an ideal travel companion, providing passengers with all their essential flight information, which they can…
NEWS Sabre strikes $400m deal to acquire Abacus International
Sabre Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Abacus International, the leading global distribution system in the Asia-Pacific region. Abacus is currently owned by a consortium of 11 Asian airlines along with Sabre, which has a 35 per cent stake in the company. Sabre will purchase the remaining portion of Abacus for net…
NEWS Sabre strikes $400m deal to acquire Abacus International
Sabre Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Abacus International, the leading global distribution system in the Asia-Pacific region. Abacus is currently owned by a consortium of 11 Asian airlines along with Sabre, which has a 35 per cent stake in the company. Sabre will purchase the remaining portion of Abacus for net…
NEWS Vietnam Airlines prepares for delivery of first Boeing B787-9 Dreamliner
The first of Vietnam Airlines’ new Boeing B787-9 Dreamliners has rolled out of Boeing’s paint shop at Paine Field in Washington, US, providing a first full look at the national carrier’s new aircraft in its distinctive updated blue and gold lotus livery. Coinciding with a major fleet upgrade – including a total of 19 B787-9s…
NEWS Sabre strikes $400m to acquire Abacus International
Sabre Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Abacus International, the leading global distribution system in the Asia-Pacific region. Abacus is currently owned by a consortium of 11 Asian airlines along with Sabre, which has a 35 per cent stake in the company. Sabre will purchase the remaining portion of Abacus for net…
NEWS Bombardier to announce 1,800 job cuts, including 1,000 in Montreal
Bombardier Aerospace is expected to announce Thursday the elimination of 1,800 jobs, mostly at its Montreal facility, according to a report in La Presse. The article explains that Bombardier faces greater costs than forecast in developing new aircraft, in addition to the economic hit taken because of the troubled CSeries.