This winter, Batik Air will serve Melbourne 2x daily. Malaysia’s Batik Air Malaysia, formerly Malindo Air, has added a second daily flight between Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne.
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Aer Lingus is experiencing a massive schedule disruption because of an IT meltdown causing all flights to the UK and Europe to be revoked.
Flag carrier Turkish Airlines has signed a codeshare deal with Air Seychelles that is mainly aimed at increasing its partnership in a bid to maximize the travel opportunities offered to the passengers of both airlines through its flight networks.
The airline had initially planned to resume services on September 12th.
United Airlines has declared a $15 million investment in electric aviation startup Eve Air Mobility and will buy 200 electric aircraft which can seat four passengers and take off and land vertically like a helicopter.
On Thursday, Airbus confirmed that it had canceled all remaining Airbus A350 orders from Qatar Airways. This is the latest escalation of the safety and contractual dispute between the Gulf carrier and the European manufacturer. Qatar Airways had 19 outstanding A350-1000 orders.
United Airlines says it will cease flights to and from JFK next month if the federal government doesn’t permit the carrier to raise its operations at New York’s busiest airport, it has been informed.
A strategic alliance between Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways has been signed, and it will help both airlines’ networks, lounges, and loyalty programmes grow.
Motherly advice is part of growing up, but it’s a little different when mom is sitting in the left-hand seat of a jetliner, and you’re in the right one. Last Friday, that happened on a Hawaiian Airlines aircraft when a mother and daughter took the controls of a B717 for a day of Pacific flying.
The pilot who allegedly threatened to crash stolen plane into a nearby Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi, in the United States, safely landed and was taken into custody, according to authorities.