Kay Kratky is expected to replace Jaan Albrecht as chief executive of Austrian Airlines following his endorsement by the supervisory board of parent Lufthansa. The appointment is expected to be confirmed on May 12th. Albrecht has accepted the job as chief executive of SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines.
Iberia has announced a new partnership agreement with Avis Budget Group, which has become the exclusive car rental partner of the airline’s loyalty programme, Iberia Plus. The partnership launch campaign, We Travel Together, highlights the opportunity for Iberia Plus members to earn Avios for every rental booked.
BREAKING Rome's FCO airport closed until 2 PM due to large fire in terminal 3. All flights cancelled. pic.twitter.com/6khSiQfOLW— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) May 7, 2015 #LATEST: #Fiumicino Airport in #Rome totally closed until 14h00 due to fire in Terminal 3 – via @Agenzia_Ansa #Italy pic.twitter.com/OwH82bD99Q— Rodrigo Barbosa (@RodaLarga) 7 Mai 2015 Despite media reports of Rome…
British Airways customers will be spoilt for choice this winter, with another two new routes launching from Heathrow. From October 25th British Airways will start flying three times a week to Reykjavik in Iceland and twice a week to Salzburg in Austria, from December 5th.
A Saudi Arabian passenger plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday night for technical maintenance. The aircraft, an Airbus A330, arrived from Brussels with no passengers on board, according to a report in Ynet news Wednesday. The aircraft is owned by a European company and leased to Saudia — Saudi Arabia’s government-owned national airline. מזרי…
A Sussex police spokeswoman said: ‘At 11.45am on Wednesday police went to a Thomas Cook flight which had just been diverted into Gatwick Airport on a flight from Glasgow to Turkey, and arrested a 34-year-old man who was a passenger, on suspicion of being drunk on an aircraft.
The brand new Air France Boeing 777-300ER took off May 4, 2015 at 22:44 from Dakar-Leopold Sedar Senghor to Paris-Charles de Gaulle CDG. After about an hour of flight, the pilot asked if there was a doctor on board. At the end of the flight, passengers understood what happened: a woman had quietly given birth…
On Tuesday 24 March 2015, the Airbus A320-211 registered D-AIPX operated by Germanwings was programmed to undertake scheduled flight 4U9525 between Barcelona (Spain) and Düsseldorf (Germany), with the callsign ‘‘GWI18G’’. Six crew members (2 flight crew and 4 cabin crew) and 144 passengers were on board. The same crew had made the outbound flight, taking…
Andreas Lubitz rehearsed his plan to crash a Germanwings flight into the French Alps, killing 150 people, a report claims. German newspaper Bild cites sources close to the investigation into the tragedy as saying co-pilot Lubitz, 27, practised reducing flight altitude on the plane on its outbound flight from Dusseldorf to Barcelona on the same…
Turkish Airlines flight #TK2004 had a severe bird strike during landing at Nevsehir airport. The Boeing 737-800 suffered impressive damages in the nose cone and the wings.
