AirlinesChina Southern Massively Cuts International Flights China Southern Airlines is slashing flights to a wide range of destinations throughout February and March 2020. The service cutbacks are in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
China Southern is Asia’s largest airline and normally has over 2,000 flights a day to some 200 destinations.
LinkBiman gets 3 Golds at gala award ceremony State owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines has secured gold in the category of In-flight Meal (Economy class), Most Improved Services in 2019, and On-board Services (Domestic) in the frequent flyer poll to elect the best airlines for 2019 in different categories announced at the gala award ceremony held at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka on Friday evening.
LinkAvianca Launches Internal Airbus Corruption Probe Avianca Holdings launched an internal corruption probe. They try to find out if a member of the company was involved in the corrupt acts by Airbus. The alleged corruption happened before March 2016.
LinkQatar Airways Airbus A350-1000 - A Video Tour It has nearly been two years since Qatar Airways took delivery of its first Airbus A350-1000. Ahead of the anniversary, the Doha-based airline shared a video of a quick tour of the widebody aircraft.
LinkWOW Air Could Be About To Make A Sudden Comeback Is WOW Air making a comeback? A cryptic Facebook post made public in the last hour indicates something is coming soon. But what that ‘something’ is, we’re still not sure of. Could this be the revival of the fallen airline? Or is it a cruel marketing strategy for something else…
LinkAir Canada Boeing 767 Landing Gear Falls Into Engine An Air Canada aircraft has been reported to be returning to Madrid after a problem with the landing gear. Reports suggest that the Boeing 767 was heading to Toronto from Madrid when a part of the landing gear came off and fell into the engine. All 128 passengers on board are said to be safe.
LinkIberia Adds Brussels As Another Short Haul Airbus A350 Route This spring and summer Iberia will be deploying its Airbus A350-900 on select short-haul routes for short periods of time. Destinations flown from its Madrid hub include Brussels, Paris Orly, and Rome Fiumicino. As these routes would usually be flown by single-aisle Airbus A320-family aircraft, having the airline’s latest widebody would be quite a treat for passengers.
LinkAir Belgium To Add More Caribbean Airbus A340 Services Air Belgium has announced it will be increasing the number of flights on offer from its base at Brussels Charleroi airport to Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Starting from 20 November 2020, the airline will offer two weekly flights to both Fort-de-France and Pointe-à-Pitre. Currently, it only offers one to each destination.
LinkRyanair Poised To Make Another Large Boeing 737 MAX Order Ryanair is poised to make another big order for the Boeing 737 MAX. However, this time it would be for the larger -10 variant of the aircraft as opposed to the airline’s exclusive -200 variant.
LinkCoronavirus Outbreak Could Wipe $78M Off Cebu Pacific's Profits Cebu Pacific expects to take a big hit as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. In an earnings call earlier today, airline management said they expect to lose a total of 3 to 4 billion pesos, equivalent to $58.9 to $78.5 million.
LinkAeroflot's First Airbus A350 Completes Its Maiden Flight Aeroflot’s first Airbus A350 has completed its maiden flight. The aircraft took off from Toulouse at 11:31 local time (10:31 UTC) and flew for 3-hours and 9-minutes before returning to the airport safely.
LinkIran Will Stop Sharing Crash Data With Ukraine Following Leak In the last couple of days, the Ukrainian media has leaked a secret conversation between an Iranian air traffic controller and pilot. The pilot claims he saw a series of lights, similar to a missile, then an explosion. As a result of this being leaked to the public, Iran has today announced it will stop sharing crash data with Ukraine.
LinkRyanair Reports Healthy Profits Despite MAX Grounding Ryanair has reported healthy profits of €88 million ($98 million) for the third quarter of its 2019 financial year. The profits come despite the Boeing 737 MAX grounding necessitating route and base cuts.
LinkWhat Plane Could Bulgaria Air Choose For Fleet Modernization? As spring fast approaches, Bulgaria Air is pondering the next steps it needs to take as a part of its fleet modernization.
According to the Bulgarian national flag carrier’s CEO Yanko Georgiev, a decision on which aircraft Bulgaria Air wants to buy could happen before the summer.
LinkHere Is How Royal Jordanian Sterilized a 787 Coronavirus Rescue Flight On February 1st at Amman’s Queen Alia Airport, Royal Jordanian airlines conducted a complete sterilization and disinfection of its Boeing 787 aircraft. The aircraft returned from Wuhan on Saturday morning after being sent to the Chinese city to evacuate Jordanians, Palestinians and Arabs residing there.
LinkChina Eastern Suspends Flights To Honolulu In the latest move to try and contain the coronavirus outbreak, all direct flights from China to Hawaii have been suspended. Airlines around the world have been suspending their services to China and Hong Kong, and now China Eastern Airlines says that it will suspend flights to Hawaii starting on Monday.
LinkPHOTOS-Batik Air receives its first A320neo Batik Air, the full service wing of Indonesia’s Lion Group, marked the arrival of its first A320neo with a ceremony at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. The aircraft is the 46th Airbus aircraft in Batik Air’s fleet that already includes 44 A320 Family Aircraft and one A330-300.
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