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News of April 2010


Sleeping passenger left on plane

7 April 2010

A British law professor is slamming Air Canada after the airline left him asleep on a plane for 90 minutes after it landed – and he woke up in a hangar at Vancouver International Airport.

Kris Lines says he’s not satisfied with the airline’s claim that the flight attendant was preoccupied with several wheelchair passengers and didn’t check the rest of the cabin.

Air Canada offered Lines a “one-time saving” of 20 per cent on up to four tickets “‘as a gesture of goodwill.'”

source: The Gazzette


Spanish air hostesses pose naked to publicise unpaid wages

2 April 2010

The nine flight attendants with the now bankrupt Spanish Air Comet airline posed naked or semi-naked for a calendar to “‘continue to publicise their situation and demand a solution'”.

The airline failed to pay staff for up to nine months before it finally filed for bankruptcy last December.

The company had debts of around 160 millions euros (£142m) when it folded including unpaid wages.

source: Telegraph.co.uk


BA and Iberia merger hits snag

1 April 2010

A regulatory hitch saw British Airways and Iberia miss the deadline they had set to sign a definitive merger agreement yesterday on their plan to create Europe’s third-largest airline group.

While the boards of both airlines remain committed to the merger – first announced in November, their plans to list a new holding company in both London and Madrid have run into trouble, according to people with knowledge of the process.

One of the major hurdles to the completion of the deal is BA’s £3.7bn pension scheme deficit.

source: FT.com


US Airways joins growing list of airlines with Wi-Fi

1 April 2010

US Airways launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service on five aircraft yesterday, joining eight other airlines working with wireless service provider Aircell.

US Airways plans to expand the Wi-Fi service from the initial five Airbus A321 aircraft to all 51 A321s by June 1.

Initially, US Airways will put a Wi-Fi symbol on the outside of a Gogo-equipped plane to alert passengers, along with displaying the symbol throughout the cabin. By late June, passengers will be able to tell whether Wi-Fi is available on a specific flight when booking travel online.

source: Computer World