Frankfurt / AFP Airbus chief Tom Enders conceded in a newspaper interview on Sunday that some of the “massive problems” dogging the European airplane manufacturer’s new military transporter, the A400M, were of the group’s own making. “We underestimated the engine problems,” Enders told the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag. At the start of the programme, Airbus had “let itself be ...

  Frankfurt / AFP German airline Lufthansa said on Sunday it will suspend flights to Venezuela from next month owing to the economic crisis in the country. “We have decided to suspend the service between Frankfurt and Caracas for the time being as from June 17,” a company spokesman said. The service, three times a week, was Lufthansa’s only flight between ...

  Nicosia / AFP A Cyprus-based budget airline, Cobalt, announced it will launch passenger flights to Greece and Britain from June. Cobalt said it was granted an Air Operator Certificate after a successful test flight with its first Cyprus-registered Airbus A320 from Larnaca to Heraklion in Greece. Its chairman, Gregory Diacou, said the carrier will begin flights to Athens on June ...