Passenger Air Transport

Mumbai sights still shadowed by attacks (AFP)

AFP - Bapu Kamble raised his right arm and pinched his thumb and forefinger together, as instructed by the photographer in front of Mumbai's Gateway of India monument and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel.

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BAE Sytems holds 'early talks' with Qatar Airways

BAE Systems is in early talks with Qatar Airways to provide a fleet of six Avro Business Jets (ABJ) for Qatar Executive, the airline's VIP corporate charter operation. Steward Cordner, Vice-President of ABJ, which debuted at...

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Kabul based Safi Airways increases capacity to Frankfurt

Now, flights to be operated with Airbus 340-300 UAE- Dubai -Five months since the inauguration of the Frankfurt-Kabul route, Safi Airways, the international airline from Afghanistan, will now operate this route with an Airbus...

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VIDEOS Fear of flu no reason to avoid flying, area health and airline officials say

Holiday travel in the midst of the H1N1 pandemic may be causing some to reconsider their mode of transportation, but the airline industry says an expected 4 percent decline in air travel during the Thanksgiving holiday is due...

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Is it possible to be an eco-friendly tourist?

Many travel firms claim to be environmentally sound, but are they just cashing in? Here's how not to be taken for a ride… When you see some of the holidays masquerading as ecotourism you'd be forgiven for thinking the term...

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Pudong gets C919 final assembly line

Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC), which is in charge of the indigenous C919 passenger airplane program, announced yesterday that it would set up its final assembly line in the city's Pudong New District. The...

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Maiden flight of Air France's A380 imminent

Air France is going to lift up its first A380 on Friday from Roissy airport on the Paris-New York route, thus becoming the first European airway company to put the superjumbo into service. The inaugural flight is expected to...

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Can the plane stand the strain?

'Broadway tickets and ski hire, sir?' American Airlines, meanwhile, is testing on-board sales so that passengers can buy tickets for Broadway shows as they cross the Atlantic, while those coming back to Britain can get their...

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More Americans traveling by car for Thanksgiving

The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. And there will be a 6.7 percent drop in the number of air travelers.

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Delta calls American-JAL alliance unsuccessful

Posted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 Bloomberg News The existing relationship between American Airlines and Japan Airlines "really hasn’t been successful," Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson said Friday in his weekly recorded message...

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