| //28-07-2008 July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Ryanair Holdings Plc, Europe's biggest discount airline, said fiscal first-quarter profit declined 85 percent because of higher fuel expenses |
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| //28-07-2008 About 12 flights between Hong Kong and Taiwan have been cancelled and five are delayed as a powerful typhoon Fung Wong strikes Taiwan.
Up to 1 pm, the cancellations include six flights between Hong Kong and Kaohsiung, four flights between Hong Kong and Taipei, and two flights between Hong Kong and Taichung.
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| //28-07-2008 HAMBURG, Germany: Emirates Airlines took delivery Monday of the first of 58 Airbus A380 superjumbo planes it has ordered and announced it had signed up to buy another 60 aircraft from the European plane builder.
The report came as the airline received the A380 in an elaborate hand-off ceremony in northern Germany.
Dubai-based Emirates announced the deal to buy 30 A330-300s and 30 A350-XWB widebody passenger planes as part of its plans to expand its growing international network. Financial terms of the order or a delivery schedule were not revealed.
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| //27-07-2008 QANTAS is checking oxygen supply cylinders on all its Boeing 747s as Australian investigators focus on a cylinder missing from the jet that had a three-metre hole blasted in its fuselage over the South China Sea on Friday. |
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| //27-07-2008 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas was ordered on Sunday to check all oxygen bottles on its fleet of Boeing 747s after investigators said an exploding oxygen bottle might have ripped a hole in a Qantas 747, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Manila. |
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| //27-07-2008 Deutsche Lufthansa AG's operations at Frankfurt and Hamburg face disruption today as employees at Europe's second-biggest airline begin a walkout over pay, a union official said.
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| //27-07-2008 A well-known magazine, Emerging Horizons, has accused Air France for not making arrangements to suit disabled passengers. In its summer issue the magazine called Air France Germ of the Year in its research on travel industry. It was based on personal experience of one of its editors who is paraplegic. The magazine found that Air France was not doing enough to care for people with disabilities to have a seamless travel experience. The carrier was simply ignoring the requirements of people with less mobility and at times, even refused to allow such passengers on its flights. |
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| //26-07-2008 An Air France Airbus A321, registration F-GTAE performing flight AF1732 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Athens (Greece), returned to Paris Charles de Gaulle, when a cockpit window cracked more than one hour into the flight.
The crew decided to return to Paris, where a replacement aircraft, registration F-GTAD, resumed the flight arriving at Athens with a delay of close to 5 hours.
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| //26-07-2008 China's national flag carrier, Air China, said it was planning to buy 45 Boeing aircraft in one of the country's biggest airliner purchases |
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| //25-07-2008 Indian travellers can now indulge in the best possible luxuries while travelling East as premier carrier Singapore airlines has introduced its latest cabin products on two of its most profitable routes to India. |
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| //25-07-2008 Malev Hungarian Airlines has decided to cancel its two transatlantic routes and starting later this year will concentrate instead on expanding its service within Europe. Hungary’s national airline will stop offering regularly-scheduled flights from Budapest to New York as of October 25th, 2008, while the last direct flight from the Hungarian capital to Toronto, Canada’s financial centre, will depart on September 21st. |
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| //25-07-2008 Air Canada today announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with Continental Airlines, the fourth largest carrier in the United States, to provide customers an enhanced travel experience through access to a broader network and seamless services provided in cooperation by the two carriers.
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| //25-07-2008 Southwest Airlines, the biggest carrier at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, earned a profit in the second quarter and beat Wall Street expectations by continuing to rely on financial deals that lowered its fuel costs.
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| //25-07-2008 Continental Airlines, the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S., has reached an agreement in principle with Air Canada to join the Star Alliance, both carriers said yesterday. |
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| //25-07-2008 Four new European destinations have been added to the flight schedule from Seoul between January 2006 and this year's first half -- Madrid, Munich, Vienna, and Helsinki. |
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| //24-07-2008 BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said the deadline for its inquiry into U.S.-based Delta Air Lines Inc.'s proposed merger with peer Northwest Airlines Corp. is set for August 6. |
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| //24-07-2008 BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuters) - The European Commission added the west African state of Gabon to its airline safety blacklist on Thursday and maintained a ban on all Indonesian airlines flying to the European Union in the latest update. |
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| //24-07-2008 Airlines and consumers are both feeling the pain at the pump. Jet fuel prices have risen 83.6 percent in the last year, according to the International Air Transport Association. In addition to cutting back on staff, many airlines are passing costs on to consumers by charging travelers additional fees for previously free features and services or instituting new policies on travel. |
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| //24-07-2008 Crack in cabin window forces Hungarian flight return
BUDAPEST, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A Hungarian Airlines Malev flight heading for Brussels returned to Budapest on Wednesday morning due to a crack in the pilot's cabin glass window, the Hungarian Mews Agency MTI reported.
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| //23-07-2008 Rising fuel prices caused Northwest Airlines Corp., which will merge with Delta by the end of the year, to post a second-quarter loss Wednesday. |
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