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Air Canada to transfer Embraer 175 fleet

: BTN News; Thursday, 04 October 2012

Canada's Air Canada is to transfer its fleet of 15 Embraer 175 jets to its regional affiliate Sky Regional Airlines.

GE tells airlines to inspect engines

: BTN News; Thursday, 04 October 2012

Engine maker General Electric wants airlines to inspect its new GEnx engine on Boeing aircraft, focusing on the engine section that failed on a 747-8 freighter in Shanghai last month. US inspectors said that engine's low-pressure turbine caused the freighter's engine to fail.

Kingfisher strike continues

: BTN News; Thursday, 04 October 2012

India's Kingfisher Airlines has reported failed reconciliatory talks between management and striking engineers and pilots over payment of a seven-month salary backlog.

Air Canada to merge vacations arm with new LCC

: BTN News; Thursday, 04 October 2012

Air Canada says it intends to combine its leisure arm - Air Canada Vacations - with a new yet-to-be-named low cost carrier (LCC) to create an integrated leisure group.

Qatar denies oneworld reports

: MICE News; Wednesday, 03 October 2012

Gulf-based Qatar Airways has denied it is to be the first of the region's carriers to join a global airline alliance by agreeing to join oneworld.

IATA revises profit projections upwards

: BTN News; Wednesday, 03 October 2012

Global demand for air transport flattened in August, with significant regional variations in the cabins and freight volumes shrinking as business and consumer confidence continues to drop, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says.

PAL orders 10 A330-300s

: BTN News; Wednesday, 03 October 2012

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has placed an order with Airbus for an additional 10 A330-300 planes.

Kingfisher cancels all flights

: BTN News; Wednesday, 03 October 2012

India's Kingfisher Airlines cancelled all 50 flights for three days this week after engineers - needed to certify aircraft are fit to fly - went on strike protesting non payment of salaries. They were joined by pilots.

Don Mueang reopens as LCC hub

: BTN News; Wednesday, 03 October 2012

Bangkok, Thailand's Don Mueang Airport has reopened - after an upgrade - as a low-cost carrier hub.

India to auction slots?

: BTN News; Tuesday, 02 October 2012

Foreign airlines flying to Indian airports could face an auction for peak-time landing slots in a shake-up of aviation policy under the government's measures to revive economic growth.

Questions raised on EADS

: BTN News; Tuesday, 02 October 2012

Reports in Europe suggest cracks in the French-German shareholder pact at the heart of EADS (Airbus) might threaten the US$45 billion European merger talks with British defence contractor BAE Systems.

Goersch joins Air Canada

: BTN News; Tuesday, 02 October 2012

Ahead of launching its own low cost carrier, Canada's Air Canada has hired a former AirTran Airways executive - Klaus Goersch - as chief operating officer.

August sees more people in the air

: BTN News; Tuesday, 02 October 2012

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says international air passenger traffic rose by 5.3 per cent in August year-on-year, helped by strong growth among Middle Eastern and South American carriers. By contrast, international airfreight fell by 1.3 per cent.