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Top European travel players awarded
The winners of the World Travel Awards Europe 2019, including hotels and airlines, have been announced in Madeira.
Read More »Sleeping pilots might improve safety
A report by the Flight Safety Foundation suggests that allowing pilots to rest during flights might increase overall safety by reducing pilot fatigue.
Read More »Airlines squeezed by slowing demand, rising costs
Rising costs including labour, fuel and infrastructure are biting into margins right across the board, IATA says, with European airlines suffering too.
Read More »Tax on aviation fuel leaked in EU report
A leaked European Commission report claims that a new fuel tax would be like removing almost eight million cars off the roads.
Read More »“Best” and “worst” US airlines ranked
A new list by a personal finance website has considered several factors such as safety, comfort and pet-friendliness, coming up with a ranking of what it calls the best and the worst.
Read More »Great Dane Airlines switches investors
In comes a prominent businessman from northern Jutland to help get the new airline’s first plane off the ground.
Read More »Pilot leaves gun behind in cockpit
The incident exposes the fact that pilots in the US have been authorised to carry guns since the September 2001 terror attacks.
Read More »Finest wines in the skies awarded
Finnair and Icelandair were among 33 airlines competing in the Cellars in the Sky 2018 awards, now in their 33rd year.
Read More »US bans lithium batteries from flights
The new rules bar commercial airlines from carrying the potentially dangerous hazardous batteries as cargo.
Read More »Flybmi blames Brexit for collapse
The regional airline, which had a strong presence in Scandinavia, has ceased operations and stranded passengers across Europe.
Read More »Denmark has a new airline
Great Dane Airlines is the name of a start-up carrier that will offer charter and scheduled flights from Aalborg Airport.
Read More »Malaysia tourism and airports pay to attract flights
Malaysia Airports Holdings and Tourism Malaysia have agreed on greater incentives to lure long-haul flights.
Read More »Europe’s big five airlines pass 50% market share
The bigger airlines “are using the crisis among smaller carriers to entrench their positions by gaining taking market share”.
Read More »“World’s safest airlines for 2019” named
SAS and Finnair are in the top 20 safest airlines, while the ten safest low-cost carriers and a few of the least safe airlines are also named.
Read More »Nordic airlines “exposed in cold winter”
Europe’s airlines face a chilly winter, Bloomberg writes, with Nordic carriers in particular exposed to brutal headwinds.
Read More »“Winter is coming”, airlines warned
2019 will be a difficult, dangerous and decisive year for aviation in Europe, an aviation expert predicts.
Read More »Lower oil to boost airline profits in 2019
Airline profits are ready to return to growth on the back of lower oil and expanding economies, IATA predicts.
Read More »Routes forum to be held in Bergen in 2020
Routes Europe will be staged in the Norwegian city in April 2020, with 1,200 airline route developers expected to attend.
Read More »Travelport chief on airlines, agents and NDC
In the second part of an interview, Travelport’s global head of new distribution has further comments on airlines, travel agents and NDC.
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