The Australian Sustainable Aviation Fuel Partnership was signed by Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce and Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury in Doha yesterday, ahead of the IATA AGM.
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British Airways staff at Heathrow who are members of Unite and the GMB union have voted to go on strike this summer over failed pay negotiations. The dates of the walkout have yet to be approved but are to take place during the peak period of school summer holidays and will affect mostly customer-facing roles, such as check-in.
Turkish Airlines is considering non-stop services to Australia. Speaking at the IATA annual general meeting, the carrier’s CEO, Ahmet Bolat, outlined the carrier’s ambition to start operating flights from Istanbul to both Sydney and Melbourne in 2026 or 2027
Air New Zealand is gearing up for the busiest July in two years with the relaunch of 14 international routes in 16 days. With these routes back in action, the airline will be working 60 percent of its international capacity – the most international flying in the last two years.
Wizz Air has declared flights to Saudi Arabia. It comes a month after it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the country’s Ministry of Investment. The first of the ULCC’s Saudi plans is driven by the Middle East nation’s enormous ambition to increase travelers to 100 million by 2030.
Airbus is helping the German Air Force in its long-term transformation to increase the sustainability of its aircraft fleet. Airbus is operating with the German Air Force towards providing the Luftwaffe with a technical allowance to commence national A400M flight trials with loads of up to 50 percent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the near term.
American Airlines is drops services to two cities in New York state and one in Ohio because of a lack of pilots. The carrier will cut routes to Islip, New York; Ithaca, New York; and Toledo, Ohio from September 7.
Air Canada expects to operate 81% of 2019 international operations this winter. Today, Air Canada declared an expansion of its international network. This winter, the Canadian flag carrier will launch its first direct service to Southeast Asia and restart flights to its second destination in India, pending final government approvals.
American airline company United Airlines has declared that they will start flights from Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru to San Francisco in the last quarter of 2022.
A probe has been started into the fire in a Delhi-bound SpiceJet aircraft after take-off from Patna and two other air incidents, involving the IndiGo and SpiceJet flights, a senior official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Monday.