Aviation

Emirates Business New route offers Middle East travellers seamless connections through Colombo to Melbourne and beyond SriLankan Airlines, the National Carrier of SriLanka and a member of the oneworld alliance, will be soon be spreading its wings to Australia, launching daily non-stop services to Melbourne from the SriLankan capital Colombo, from October 29 this year. The new route, which was ...

Bloomberg Leading Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific placed an order with Airbus for an additional seven A321CEO (Current Engine Option) aircraft, for delivery from March 2018. The aircraft will meet the airline’s increased capacity requirements pending the start of delivery of 32 A321NEO aircraft, which will now begin in 4TH quarter of 2018. CEB has chosen to defer the A321NEO deliveries ...

DUBAI / Reuters Qatari nationals will not be allowed to board flights to Dubai or Abu Dhabi because the UAE has banned them from passing through its airports after Arab powers cut ties with Qatar, Etihad Airways said on Wednesday. Foreigners living in Qatar with residence visas will no longer be eligible for visas on arrival into the United Arab ...

Cancun / Emirates Business The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Qantas will host the 74th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit. The event will attract the top leadership of the air transport industry to Sydney, Australia, from June 3-5, 2018. “Sydney is an excellent choice to become the capital of the global air transport ...

Casablanca / Emirates Business Etihad Cargo and Royal Air Maroc Cargo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will see the two airlines cooperate in a number of areas including network development, freighter deployment and increasing traffic on several trade lanes over the next nine months. The MoU was signed at Royal Air Maroc’s headquarters in Casablanca by David ...

Bloomberg Qatar’s state airline is set to become the biggest loser from the diplomatic breakdown in the Persian Gulf—with competitors in Dubai and Abu Dhabi also set to suffer. Some 76 daily flights are likely to be grounded, of which 52 are operated by Qatar Airways, after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE suspended ties with Qatar, according to ...

Bloomberg Alitalia has started an administration process aimed at finding investors willing to invest in the carrier Etihad Airways, the biggest single shareholder in Alitalia, is open to deepening its ties with the insolvent airline after investing about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in the Italian company. “Strong ties continue to exist between Alitalia and Etihad Aviation Group and we ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE will refit Zodiac Aerospace seats on all of Finnair Oyj’s A350 wide-body jetliners because of quality issues, said the airline’s CEO, Pekka Vauramo. Entire business-class berths must be replaced on the nine A350s that Finnair has in operation, Vauramo said in an interview at the International Air Transport Association’s annual meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The changes will ...

Bloomberg Korean Air Lines Co. will be the first Bombardier Inc. customer to fly C Series jets outfitted with Pratt & Whitney engines revamped to address a durability issue, according to the Canadian manufacturer. South Korea’s biggest carrier is set to become the third operator of the C Series when it takes delivery of its first CS300 jets in the ...

WAM/ Reuters Etihad Airways announced that it will suspend all flights to and from Qatar until further notice, joining other regional carriers in a similar move amid a diplomatic spat between Qatar and some of its Gulf neigbhours. The move came after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing it ...