Air France-KLM is contemplating a joint venture with a private rail company that could lead to the transfer of the airline’s short-haul international routes to high-speed rail service as early as 2010. The airline has confirmed that it is considering replacement rail services for some of the shorter-haul routes and that it may choose to  Continue Reading »

For some carriers, the business-class-only approach hasn’t worked out so well. Silverjet, which was offering service between London and Newark (New Jersey) closed its operations in May, citing staggering fuel prices and the lack of capital as the reasons. Two other carriers offering all-premium seating, Eos Airlines and MAXjet Airways, also went out of business  Continue Reading »

Reports of the German national carrier Lufthansa taking over the British airline bmi are rampant, but nothing has yet been publicly confirmed. If the deal is done however, it has been speculated that Virgin Atlantic would be interested in getting involved with the merger. An anonymous source close to Virgin and Lufthansa said that Virgin  Continue Reading »

Last Thursday, the price of oil topped $135 a barrel, causing havoc across the globe. The is double what it was at the same time last year and as a result, the travel industry may see even more airlines continue to fold this year. Last week, Air France-KLM announced that rising fuel prices were significantly  Continue Reading »

With the announcement this week that Eos Airlines, an all business class operation that flew between New York and London, was filing for bankruptcy, speculation began on how feasible the model is in the high fuel price times. Eos was not the first of its kind to fold, as MaxJet Airways had to close up  Continue Reading »

Lufthansa Airlines has announced that beginning from April 4th, flights between the airline’s base in Frankfurt, Germany and the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa will begin codeshares with Ethiopian Airlines. With the two airlines combining routes, passengers can choose between seven flights a week, four Lufthansa planes and three Ethiopian Airlines planes will make the  Continue Reading »

The German national carrier Lufthansa Airlines has opened an operation centre in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. The centre will control all of Lufthansa’s remote infrastructure services from the new location in Budapest’s Infopark D, where much telecommunication and IT software development is being produced. “We are proud to have created another 100 attractive jobs  Continue Reading »

March 30th is the first day that the open skies agreement between the United States and the European Union comes into effect, and it’s not only the airlines that will be taking advantage of the new routes opening. When the floodgates open there will be many new sales and promotions, and customers will have to  Continue Reading »

Lufthansa is thinking about putting triple-decker bunk beds onto their economy class flights. The German airline is considering beds laid out in a herringbone design on Airbus A380 superjumbos. The planes have already been ordered and are scheduled to be delivered next year. During take off and landing, passengers would be seated but once in  Continue Reading »