Airline news
London Heathrow Braced For Olympics Exodus
London’s Heathrow Airport is braced for one its busiest ever days on Monday with around 15,000 Olympic athletes and officials expected to leave the capital following the end of the Games. Heathrow owner BAA expects...
Aircraft Lessors Seek Protection From EU ETS
International tension over the EU’s law making all airlines flying in and out of Europe pay for their carbon emissions has prompted aircraft leasing companies to change the terms of their contracts, lawyers familia...
Qantas Says No Interest In JAL Equity Stake
Australia’s Qantas Airways has no interest in taking an equity stake in Japan Airlines, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said. Japan Airlines has been sounding out trading houses and other business partners as pot...
GE Engine Failure A Contained Incident
The US National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday that the failure of a General Electric jet engine on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner last month was a contained incident of the sort that does not normally pose an im...
Frontier Announces Nonstop Service Between Denver and Fargo Beginning Nov. 16
This new service will instead operate on spacious 138-seat Airbus 319 aircraft, which reduce the flight time and offer more customer amenities. Frontier Airlines announced new nonstop service between its Denver, Colo. (DEN), hu...
Air Canada Low-Cost Arm To Launch 2013
Air Canada, having overcome union resistance to the launch of a low-cost carrier, plans to start offering cheap flights to leisure destinations next year, slowly ramping up to a 50-aircraft operation that it hopes will r...
