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Lufthansa Pilots will Vote For Strike
Lufthansa pilots have been voted for a strike in a dispute over pay and working conditions, union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said on Friday. The union, which represents more than 5,000 Lufthansa pilots, said more than 90 p...
Air Berlin To De-list Etihad To Lift Stake
Air Berlin, almost 30 percent owned by Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, will be de listed and Etihad will raise its stake to 49.9 percent, a German weekly reported, possibly as a prelude to combining it with Alitalia. Cit...
Debris a Credible Lead In Boeing 777 Hunt
Debris a Credible Lead In Boeing 777 Hunt. Aircraft and ships battled bad weather on Thursday in search of floating objects in remote seas off Australia that Malaysia’s government called a “credible lead̶...
Bombardier Up Beat Despite C Series Delay
Bombardier provided an up beat 2016 revenue forecast on Thursday despite its struggles to get its costly new CSeries airliner into service. Bombardier chief executive Pierre Beaudoin told investors in New York that it ex...
Australia Investigates Possible Boeing 777-200 ER MH370 Debris in Indian Ocean
Search aircraft are investigating two objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia that could be debris from Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 ER flight MH370, officials said on Thursday. Australian officia...
Hainan Air to Add 27 Aircraft
Hainan Airlines will take delivery of 27 aircraft this year that will help increase the number of routes it flies to the United States and Europe, a company executive said on Wednesday. The deliveries will include four Boeing 7...