The world’s airlines will lose $9 billion this year after shedding $10.4 billion in 2008, IATA DG and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said Monday.
If you are flying first class on Emirates you get to take a shower on board!
Ryanair on May 20 will begin phasing out its airport check-in desks and from Oct. 1 will require all customers to check in online in an effort to lower its cost base.
Seat features:
82 inch long private suite with a 80.5 inches fully flat bed, with bed width of 29.75 inches
Each suite with Arabic styled sliding privacy doors
23 inch personal TV/video screen, with in-flight entertainment system that allows customers to pause, stop, fast-forward or rewind up to 600 hours of films, TV and radio programmes, and play [...]
Today Virgin Blue’s new long-haul carrier, V Australia, is due to formally launch operations with an inaugural departure from Sydney bound for Los Angeles.
Singapore Airlines has unveiled capacity cuts across much of its passenger network as it copes with a drop in demand amid the global economic downturn.
The Star Alliance carrier said earlier this week that it will now be decommissioning 17 aircraft in the financial year starting 1 April, rather than four aircraft as previously planned. It said [...]
Asiana Airlines was named Airline of the Year for 2009 by Air Transport World, the magazine affiliate of this website announced yesterday.
Other winners of ATW’s 35th annual industry achievement awards include Flybe, which was named Regional Airline of the Year, and ILFC Chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy, who received the Joseph S. Murphy Industry Service [...]
Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330-300. The aircraft was handed over by Airbus at a delivery ceremony in Toulouse, France, yesterday. It is one of 19 new Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered A330-300s that the airline will be leasing to tie them over until the purchased Airbus A350s arrive in the coming years. [...]
Kuwaiti start-up carrier Wataniya Airways has unveiled Dubai as its first destination, and will begin operating the route twice-daily from 8 February next year.
The airline will also use as its base Kuwait International Airport’s luxurious Royal Terminal, a new $42 million private aviation facility, rather than the regular commercial building.
Wataniya Airways has been assigned the [...]
Dutch carrier KLM has become the latest airline to adopt a retro-style livery, painting a Boeing 737-800 in a historic scheme to mark the company’s 90th anniversary.
Several airlines argue that they are the world’s oldest, but KLM’s particular claim is to be the oldest airline still operating under its original brand.
It was founded on 7 October [...]
