AirlinesRyanair averts Irish strike, but faces UK and Spanish walkouts As Irish LCC Ryanair continues to deal with labor issues among its various pilot and cabin crew unions, passengers are bracing for travel disruptions across Europe through September.
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Ryanair has blocked an Irish pilots’ strike and said Portuguese action is having little impact, but a two-day UK pilots’ strike will go ahead Aug. 22-23.
LinkInvestigation begins into SWISS Airbus A220 engine incident A serious incident investigation has begun, after a Pratt & Whitney-powered Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) Airbus A220 experienced an inflight engine failure and a subsequent inspection revealed that the low-pressure compressor (LPC) stage 1 rotor was missing.
The SWISS A220 was performing a scheduled passenger flight from Geneva to London Heathrow at about 1305 local time on July 25 when the crew experienced problems.
LinkAir Belgium boosts transatlantic routes; returns to Hong Kong Air Belgium is increasing routes to the French Caribbean, adding two transatlantic destinations, and making a comeback to China.
On Dec. 7, Air Belgium plans to resume scheduled Airbus A340-300s flights with twice-weekly Brussels South Charleroi-Fort-de-France; Martinique-Pointe-à-Pitre; and Guadeloupe-Charleroi services.
LinkANA expands international network, continues fleet upgrade All Nippon Airways (ANA) will add three new international routes from Tokyo Narita Airport by the end of its fiscal year on March 31, 2020, as the Japanese carrier continues to grow its international network.
The airline is scheduled to launch flights from Narita to Perth, Australia, on Sept. 1, the only direct service on this route. ANA also plans to introduce flights from Narita to Chennai, India, on Oct. 27, 2019, and to Vladivostok, Russia, in March 2020 (2019 winter schedule).
LinkCathay expects ‘significant’ impact to August revenue on protests Cathay Pacific Airways predicts revenue for August will be affected significantly by this summer’s mass civil protests in Hong Kong, weakening inbound and outbound traffic.
The Hong Kong-based airline said its July traffic figures, released Aug. 21, were not hurt much by the protests, but expects that will not be the case for its next monthly report.
LinkAir Astana shifts Moscow operations for S7 codeshare Air Astana is shifting its Moscow services from Sheremetyevo to the Russian capital's Domodedovo airport from the beginning of the winter season.
Links to both Nur-Sultan and Almaty – a total of 25 weekly flights – will be moved from 27 October.
LinkComair 737 departed despite taxi collision uncertainty South African investigators have determined that a Comair Boeing 737-800 departed Johannesburg despite uncertainty over a possible taxiing collision with a Mango aircraft.
The Mango 737-800, bound for Cape Town, had taken an incorrect taxiing route from the apron which resulted in its unintentionally following the Comair jet along taxiway A.
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