According to immigration officials, a French man is likely to be deported from the United States after he allegedly struck a flight attendant during his flight to New York from Paris. Ansoumane Conde was aboard American Airlines Flight 44 along with 136 other passengers traveling from Charles DeGaulle Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy  Continue Reading »

Next year, business class fliers will have a whole plane to themselves twice a day between London City Airport and John F. Kennedy International in New York with British Airways. The flights will use 32-seat A318 aircraft for the route. British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh says, “This niche service will fly passengers between the  Continue Reading »

The recent announcement that British Airways will fly two daily business-only flights between London City Airport and New York’s john F. Kennedy International Airport has spurned Silverjet’s CEO, Lawrence Hunt into reaction. Silverjet’s model of private terminals and security makes it the airline of choice for business professionals, and it is the only commercial airline  Continue Reading »

For the entire month of February, Singapore Airlines and Tourism Australia will launch a campaign coordinated to get people to Australia on Singapore Airlines. The campaign will advertise online and on television, and extols the virtues of Australia and the excellent service passengers will receive from Singapore Airlines on their way there. The advertising campaign  Continue Reading »

All Nippon Airways is one of Japan’s more successful international carrier. The Star Alliance member connects Japan with many other Asian countries and North America. The company is on the move this year, and the corporate plans for the period of April 1st 2008 to March 31st 2012 as been laid out. The airline is  Continue Reading »

The Airbus A380 superjumbo jet has made its commercial debut recently, with Singapore Airlines flying the massive jet from its base in Singapore to Sydney, Australia. SIA was the first airline to receive the long-overdue jetliner that was so anticipated, and has now announced its second route to make use of the biggest passenger jet  Continue Reading »

On a recent Air Canada flight from Toronto Pearson International Airport to London Heathrow International Airport, a co-pilot suffered a nervous breakdown and had to be led kicking and screaming from the cockpit. Terrified passengers told reporters that the co-pilot had to be carried out of the cockpit by crewmembers and handcuffed to a chair,  Continue Reading »

After comments saying that budget airlines are ruining traditional travel in the United Kingdom, Cheapflights.co.uk has come back on the side of the low-costers after a Select Committee in tourism scorned the budget industry. Cheapflights.co.uk general manager Francesca Escery said, “Without budget airlines, thousands of families in the UK would be unable to travel abroad.  Continue Reading »

An accord has been signed between Germany’s national carrier and its Vereinigung Cockpit pilot union, giving cockpit crews a 2.5% wage increase, which will be paid in retrograde back to October 1st, 2007 when the last agreement was signed, added to a 3% rise from January 1st of this year. All pilots employed with Lufthansa  Continue Reading »

OssiUrlaub.de is a company based in eastern Germany that plans to make Deutschland nudists very happy. Anyone who’s been to Germany and noticed the scores of people in public parks and pools that are in the buff know that there is a strong nudist population in the fatherland. Now OssiUrlaub will give nudies an opportunity  Continue Reading »

The national German airline Lufthansa is teaming up with travel group TUI to create a new low-cost airline. Lufthansa already has stake in some budget carriers, like Germanwings and Eurowings, and it’s with partner in that project Albrecht Knauf that will see the new airline emerge. Knauf is set to take hold of 20% of  Continue Reading »

A new route with American Eagle Airlines will see direct daily flights between Dallas/Fort Worth International and Tampico, Mexico’s General Franscisco Javier Mina International Airport. The route will be flown using Embraer ERJ-140 jets which seat 44 people. President and CEO of American Eagle Airlines Peter Bowler says, “We are pleased to be adding service  Continue Reading »