Airline news
Alitalia Must Give Up Some Rome-Milan Slots
Alitalia, along with its unit AirOne, is running a monopoly on the highly profitable Rome-Milan route and must give up some slots, Italy’s antitrust authority said on Tuesday. The authority, ending a probe that began last...
US Airlines Seen Posting 2012 Profit
Rising fuel prices pushed major US airlines into the red for the first quarter and could pressure results during the peak travel season, but most carriers are likely to be profitable this year, analysts said. While grappling wi...
Iberia Warns Pilots’ Strikes Threaten Future
Spanish airline Iberia has warned that a fresh round of strikes by its pilots to protest the creation of a low-cost carrier could threaten the company’s future. Iberia pilots launched the first of 30 planned one-day strik...
Air Canada Pilot Thought Venus Was A Plane
A sleepy Air Canada pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane, an official report said on Monday. Sixteen pa...
Emirates Mulls Foreign Airline Buys
Dubai airline Emirates is studying new opportunities to buy foreign carriers if they fit the emirate’s strategy, the state news agency quoted the chairman of the fast-growing carrier as saying on Monday. “Now there ...
Qatar Airways Open To Airbus, Boeing Rivals
The chief executive of Qatar Airways said delays to new planes from Airbus and Boeing meant he was open to studying future aircraft being developed by emerging producers such as China. Akbar Al Baker, who has regularly berated ...
