Airline news
United To Layoff 685 Flight Attendants
United Airlines will layoff about 685 flight attendants, as the US airline looks to prune its expenses as part of a USD$2 billion annual cost-cutting plan announced last year. United said it failed to attract enough take...
Saudi Gulf Air To Buy 16 Bombardier CSeries
Saudi Gulf Airlines, a new carrier set in the wake of the deregulation of the Saudi aviation market, has signed a USD$2 billion deal with Bombardier to buy 16 CSeries aircraft, the airline said on Thursday. The deal, whi...
Boeing 787 Investigators Studying Battery X-rays
Investigators in Japan are studying x-ray images of a lithium-ion battery from when it left the factory, hoping these may shed some light on why it appeared to overheat on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner earlier this week. They ...
Qatar Airways To Launch Saudi Flights In Q3
Qatar Airways has reached agreement with Saudi authorities on solving problems that blocked its entry into Saudi Arabia’s domestic market, and plans to start operating there by the end of the third quarter, its chi...
Bombardier CSeries Delayed By At Least Nine Months
Bombardier warned on Thursday it will delay putting its new CSeries jet into commercial service until the last half of 2015, a major setback in its plan to challenge Airbus and Boeing in the narrow-body aircraft market. ...
France To Sell Part Of Airbus Stake
France said on Wednesday it was launching the sale of shares of around one percent of the capital of Airbus, its latest divestment to raise cash for the strained state-coffers. The sale of the 8 million Airbus Group shar...
