As of April 2008, Finnair and Aeroflot will cooperate on flights between Helsinki and Moscow that will run four times a day, a total of 28 times a week. The development represents a breakthrough in long negotiations to add capacity to flights between the two capital cities.
source: Boarding.no
Tiger Airways joins Yeongnam Air in plans for challenging Asiana/KAL duopoly in 2008
South Korea’s air transport market looks set to undergo a radical shakeup with Singapore-based low-cost carrier Tiger Airways the latest to unveil plans for a new airline there.
Until now South Korea’s market has been dominated by Asiana Airlines and Korean Air, although two small turboprop operators have begun operating limited domestic services in recent years. Real competition should come to the market soon, with start-up Yeongnam Air hoping to begin operating in February. Its plans were unveiled earlier this year and it recently secured a business licence from the Transportation ministry.
source: flightglobal.com
In an initial protest against their employment conditions, Israir’s flight attendants declared a labor dispute over the weekend against the management of the company, demanding a collective employment contract in place of the current individual agreement on which they are now signed. The Histadrut will mediate between the workers and the management.
“‘The cabin attendants will not be satisfied with a contract that is worth less than the collective agreement the El Al air workers achieved and as the Arkia workers are about to sign,'” Raz Bahar, an Israir stewardess and the chairwoman of the workers’ committee, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
Air Canada was struggling to contend with a computer problem Friday that caused flight delays at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
It was unclear whether the computer glitch, which apparently affected passenger check-in services, was localized at Pearson or had affected the airline’s operations nationwide, said Angela Mah, a spokeswoman for the airline.
“‘We are currently working on isolating the issue and resolving the issue as soon as possible,'” Mah told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview.
An advisory on the Air Canada website said the airline is experiencing technical difficulties with a computer system which will likely result in some flight delays. The advisory said the airline expects the issue to be fixed shortly.
source: Canadian Press
Iberia said on Thursday it had a new takeover approach from Gala Capital with a value of up to 3.7 billion euros ($5.4 billion), rivalling a long-awaited bid led by private equity group TPG.
In a statement, the Spanish airline said Basque savings bank BBK and the chairman of Air Europa were part of the bidding consortium, which would offer 3.6-3.9 euros a share.
Iberia shares jumped on the news and at 11:16 GMT were up 4 percent at 3.63 euros. They were then suspended from trade.
source: Reuters
Aer Lingus Group PLC faced a new strike threat Monday after Ireland’s largest labor union demanded that the airline abandon its new contracts for temporary employees.
The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union said its members at Aer Lingus would walk off the job Nov. 20 and Nov. 23 if the airline didn’t restore the temporary workers’ previous pay and employment conditions.
source: IHT
Aer Lingus has announced plans to begin two new routes from Dublin and Cork next summer.
Direct flights will begin from Dublin to Ibiza and from Cork to Jersey.
The airline also plans to increase capacity on a number of its other flights, with services between Dublin and San Francisco, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Orlando operating on a year-round basis.
The airline also says it will fly from Belfast to Nice twice a week from April onwards.
source: independent.ie
Air Canada is set to take off to Frankfurt, Germany from Ottawa.
The airline is launching daily non-stop flights between Ottawa and Lufthansa’s main hub in Germany starting in June.
Air Canada will use a 211 seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft for the flight.
source: CFRA
American Airlines increased fares Thursday due to surging crude oil and jet fuel prices, prompting Delta Air Lines to quickly follow suit and very likely setting a new round of industrywide price increases into motion.
American raised domestic fares by $10 one way and $20 roundtrip in an effort, the airline said, to recover some of the costs associated with recent large increases in the price of fuel. Delta raised its fares by $10 in most domestic markets, a spokesman said.
source: SFGate.com
The German airline Lufthansa now operates out of Florida’s busiest passenger airport.
Flights between Orlando and the airline’s Frankfurt, Germany, hub are scheduled to run every day except Saturday. From Germany, passengers can fly to nearly 100 countries around the world.
source: wpbf.com
