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AirAsia X to withdraw flights to Europe and India
MALAYSIA’S long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X is to eliminate flights to Europe and India due to soaring fuel prices, exorbitant taxes and weakening air travel demand.
AirAsia X said it will suspend flights from Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai starting February… Continue reading
Qantas ordered to resume flights
QANTAS planes are set to fly again after Fair Work Australia ordered an end to union strikes and the airline’s grounding of its fleet.
Tens of thousands of passengers have been stranded in Australia and around the world over the… Continue reading
Qantas delays 70 flights amid worker strikes
Qantas Airways is delaying 70 flights amid another series of strikes by its ground workers.
The Australian airline says around 10,000 passengers will be affected by Friday’s strike by the Transport Workers Union.
Qantas has been grappling with months of… Continue reading
Kuwait Airways flights canceled as workers strike
Kuwait Airways has canceled several flights as a strike got under way at the Gulf nation’s national carrier.
Several flights to regional destinations such as Dubai, Jeddah and Doha were listed as canceled on the airline’s website on Monday, although… Continue reading
Nearly 80 Qantas flights affected by strike threat
Embattled carrier Qantas was forced to cancel or delay nearly 80 flights on Monday despite aircraft engineers calling off strike action after the airline threatened to withhold pay.
Line maintenance engineers, who check aircraft on the tarmac, were planning to… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Resumes Test Flights
MARIETTA, Ga., September 26th, 2011 — Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] F-22 Raptor returned to the skies today here in a series of test and production flights, the first since a four-month fleet stand down was lifted on Sept. 19, 2011… Continue reading
Boeing aims to complete 787 flight tests this weekend
Boeing Co is looking to finish flight tests for its much-awaited 787 Dreamliner this weekend, the company’s chief of commercial airplanes said on Thursday.
The 787 is still set for delivery to All Nippon Airways in September and will see… Continue reading
NASA selects Virgin Galactic for Suborbital Flights
US Space Agency will fly technology payloads to space onboard Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft.
Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, has been selected by NASA to provide flight opportunities… Continue reading
RAK Airways keen to operate more flights into Kerala
RAK Airways, a national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) operating from Ras Al Khaimah, Tuesday evinced interest in operating more flights to Kerala.
‘The airline’s top officials met Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and sought support to get the… Continue reading
News from Mojave
Two Flights in 24 hours for SpaceShipTwo
More exciting news from the Mojave Desert this morning with confirmation that SpaceShipTwo, VSS Enterprise, had completed two successful glide flights within 24 hours.
This was the quickest turnaround time yet between VSS… Continue reading
EUROCONTROL Short-Term Forecast May 2011
2011 is forecast to see a 3.2% (±0.8%) growth in flights across Europe, a downwards revision on the last publication.
Flights to and from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia were severely disrupted by the… Continue reading
Air India cancels 221 flights on day 8 of pilots’ stir
As many as 221 Air India flights in the domestic sector were cancelled Wednesday, as the strike by nearly half of the carrier’s 1,600 pilots entered the eighth day, with operations restricted to the trunk routes between metros.
But the… Continue reading