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Malaysia Airlines' Employees Are Quitting, And A Whole Bunch More Are About...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - As bodies from downed Flight MH17 were brought home last week, a group of Malaysia Airlines flight attendants, in black mourning headscarves contrasting with their pink and...
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Pilots At One Of Europe's Biggest Budget Airlines Set To Go On Strike
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pilots at Lufthansa's low-cost carrier Germanwings are to go on strike for six hours from 0400 GMT on Friday, labor union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said in a statement on...
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Japan Airlines Just Went On A Regional Jet Shopping Spree
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines <9201.T> said on Thursday that it will buy as many as 32 Mitsubishi Regional Jets and will order 15 regional aircraft from Brazil's Embraer SA <embr3.sa>...
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Exclusive: Alitalia, Etihad Deal Likely To Be Cleared By End-2014 - Source
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italian airline Alitalia and Etihad Airways are expected to seek European Union antitrust approval for their deal this month and win clearance by the end of the year after minor...
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How Delta Bought A Refinery And Wound Up Saving Its Rivals A Ton Of Cash
For airlines, the biggest cost of doing business isn't multi-million dollar planes — it's jet fuel. Air carriers deal with this in different ways, but Delta Airlines took the unprecedented step of...
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If This Company Succeeds, We Won't Be Fighting About Reclining Airline Seats
Another week, another flight diverted because passengers were fighting over a reclining seat.It's the great airborne travel question of our age: To recline, or not to recline?Of course, the core of the...
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Airbus Has Won 1,001 Plane Orders Since January
Europe's Airbus said on Thursday that new orders topped 1,000 aircraft in the first eight months of the year as airlines order fuel-saving models, but cancellations continued to weigh on net orders,...
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These Lucky Flyers Got A Once-In-A-Lifetime View Of An Erupting Volcano
Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano erupted over the weekend, spewing lava as high as 200 feet in the air.Unlike the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Bardarbunga has not created a gigantic ash...
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BOEING: China Will Need $870 Billion Worth Of Planes Through 2034
Boeing announced this week that it expects China's airlines will require an additional 6,020 aircraft by 2033 with a total value of $870 billion. These latest figures represent an 8% increase over the...
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Dubai's New Airport Will Be Biggest In The World
Dubai announced this week that the emirate's Al Maktoum International Airport is about to get a massive $32 billion expansion. Since opening in 2010, the four year-old airport has been mainly used for...
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Outgoing Ferrari Boss Could Run Italy's National Airline
MARANELLO Italy (Reuters) - Outgoing Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said on Wednesday that taking on the chairmanship of Alitalia was a possibility but he would decide only after leaving...
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Who Needs A 'Knee Defender' If Passengers Can Just Recline Their Airplane...
The Knee Defender is back in the news again. That’s the guerrilla comfort device that, when surreptitiously inserted in the crook of the seat in front of you, prevents said seat from reclining.The Knee...
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The Richest Man In Asia Is Getting Into The $200 Billion Aircraft Leasing Game
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, aims to buy his way into the global aircraft leasing business as his flagship investment firm holds talks with lessors on building a portfolio of...
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Why Mileage Runs Are Finally Dead
Josh Barro writes one of the best mainstream pieces on the current state of mileage runs for the New York Times.It’s a practice known as a mileage run: Buy a low-price airline ticket, in this instance...
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French Aviation Goes On Strike Again, Air France Forced To Cancel Half Of Its...
It's Monday morning and once again, the French are on strike. This time, it's Air France.Pilots for Air France have forced the country's national carrier to scrap half of its flights on Monday, reports...
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The 7 Most Annoying Myths About Flying
Commercial air travel has long been a breeding ground for myths, conspiracy theories, urban legends, and plain old misunderstandings. Most of what people think they know about flying is wrong. Here are...
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Angry Airline Passengers In Pakistan Revolt Against Tardy VIPs
Passengers on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight revolted this week after being forced to endure a 2-hour delay to accomodate a pair of tardy VIPs.During they delay, a group of fed-up...
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It's Clear That Flyers Are Worse Off After The American Airlines-US Airways...
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker gave good marks for merger progress so far with plenty of work to do.He cited progress implementing “the world’s largest code-sharing arrangement” between American and...
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A JetBlue Flight Made An Emergency Landing As A 'Twilight' Star Live Tweeted...
Four people were injured on Thursday when a JetBlue plane carrying 147 people made an emergency landing at the Long, Beach, California, airport, because of an engine issue, an airport spokeswoman...
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Iceland's Super Cheap Airline Is Surprisingly Great
This may sound weird, but our New Year’s resolution for 2014 was to fly WOW Air, a low-cost airline based in Iceland. Its awesome name aside, WOW intrigued us for its fleet of pink A320s, humor on...
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