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Norwegian Air Boss Looks Beyond Ailing SAS
Norwegain Air Shuttle CEO Bjørn Kjos. When Scandinavian airline SAS cast off a tiny Norwegian partner carrier in 2002, few people thought it could survive, let alone threaten within a decade to bury its former master. N...
Boeing Celebrates Delivery of First 787 Dreamliner to Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways’ first Boeing 787 is also the airline’s 32nd Boeing airplane and will join a fleet of 31 Boeing 777 passenger and cargo aircraft. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Qatar Airways today celebrated the delivery of th...
Gulf Air Cuts Boeing, Revises Airbus Order
Gulf Air, Bahrain’s struggling national carrier, has cut its order for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and also revised a deal with Airbus, as it restructures its fleet to cope with a tough market. Gulf Air said on M...
Virgin Atlantic Reveals 100,000 Tons of CO2 Savings Due As It Publishes Third Annual Sustainability Report
Ground-breaking new computer software will reduce Virgin Atlantics fuel emissions by 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, thus helping the environment while saving the airline almost $32 million in fuel costs. This innova...
SAS To Cut Jobs, Sell Assets To Survive
Loss-making airline SAS will shed nearly 6,000 staff through cuts and asset sales to secure loans from banks and Nordic governments to help it survive a global downturn and fierce competition. SAS, one of the European fl...
Emirates A380 Returns To Sydney After Engine Fire
An Emirates Airbus A380 bound for Dubai was forced to return to Sydney on Sunday night when one of its engines caught fire soon after take-off. The flight, with 380 passengers on board, was just 20 minutes into its fligh...
