16 years ago today, all 4 crew members lost their lives after Korean Air Cargo Flight KE8509 (HL7451) crashed into Hatfield Forest near Great Halingbury, England. Shortly after taking off from London Stranded Airport to Malpensa Airport, Italy. The cause of the crash was attitude director indicator (ADI) failure combined with pilot error. The first…
CTI, the leading regional business travel provider, has announced the appointment of Clive Wratten as its chief executive. Wratten, 52, joined CTI in June 2015 as commercial director, and since joining has already restructured the sales and client management teams and evolved CTI’s positioning to be a Travel Partnership Company. Details
easyJet has announced that it has appointed Jacky Simmonds as group people director and that she will join the airline on January 4th 2016. Prior to this appointment Simmonds was TUI Group’s global human resources director, having worked for TUI for fifteen years. She is also a non-executive director of Wolseley PLC where she is…
In conjunction with Panasonic Avionics, leading inflight connectivity provider AeroMobile has launched the first inflight 3G network, creating a step change in the connected experience. The inflight 3G network operated over Panasonic’s Ku service enables a quality and range of services much closer to those experienced on the ground. Details
Etihad Airways is set to become the Official Airline of the Ladies European Tour in 2016, taking over sponsorship of Europe’s leading women’s professional golf tour. The LET was originally formed as the WPGA in 1978 and over the last 36 years has developed into an internationally recognised sporting organisation. Details
Global air services provider dnata has signed another multi-year agreement with a Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines to provide full ground handling services for the airline’s new flights to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport. This is the second Chinese airline customer that dnata has won this year, adding to the contract with Xiamen Air announced earlier in…
27 years ago today, 270 people lost their lives as a bomb explodes on a Pam An flight, PA103 from London Heathrow that was heading to New York JFK. The terrorist bomb exploded over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, causing the plane to explode in mid-air killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on…
Global air services provider dnata has signed another multi-year agreement with a Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines to provide full ground handling services for the airline’s new flights to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport. This is the second Chinese airline customer that dnata has won this year, adding to the contract with Xiamen Air announced earlier in…
International Airlines Group has firmed up options for a further 15 A320neos. “IAG and its airlines are one of Airbus’ most prestigious and loyal customers with fleets and orders covering the full range of our products,” said John Leahy, chief operating officer – customers. Details
International Airlines Group has firmed up options for a further 15 A320neos. “IAG and its airlines are one of Airbus’ most prestigious and loyal customers with fleets and orders covering the full range of our products,” said John Leahy, chief operating officer – customers. Details
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is expanding its codeshare partnership with S7 Airlines to cover eight additional destinations from the Russian carrier’s Moscow hub.Effective January 16th 2016, Etihad Airways will place its EY code on S7 Airlines’ domestic services between Moscow and Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don…
An Air France flight travelling from Mauritius to Paris has made an emergency landing in Kenya after a suspect package was found on board. Flight AF463, carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew members, had left Mauritius at 21:00 local time on Saturday and was due to arrive in Paris Charles de Gaulle at 05:50 local…
