Airline news
Bohai Leasing Approves 70 Airbus A320 Deal
The Hong Kong unit of China’s Bohai Leasing has signed a deal worth about USD$7.76 billion to buy 70 A320neo aircraft from Airbus, the Chinese company announced. Subsidiary Hong Kong Aviation Capital signed the agr...
Bodies, Black Boxes From MH17 Handed Over
The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were being taken to the Netherlands on Tuesday as a senior Ukrainian separatist leader handed over the plane’s black ...
Lufthansa Joins Calls For MH17 Airline Summit
Lufthansa joined Emirates in calling for an airline summit to discuss the industry’s response to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, saying international security protocols should be reviewed...
Poste Italiane Puts Conditions On Alitalia-Etihad Deal
Poste Italiane will only invest more money in Alitalia if it avoids taking on the airline’s past liabilities, three people close to the matter said, a condition likely to hamper a rescue deal with Etihad Airways. A...
Emirates Airlines Calls For Airline Summit On MH17 Attack
Tim Clark, chief executive of Emirates, has called for an international meeting of airlines to agree a response to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, including a potential rethink of the threats posed by regio...
Inside MAS, Shock As Tragedy Strikes Again
It started with another late-night phone call, another rush to the airport, where familiar faces in a familiar setting tried to make sense of nearly 300 more lives lost in the second disaster to strike Malaysia Airlines ...
