Tags: Airline News

Bulgaria Air cancels flights to/from Italy until April 4 due to coronavirus quarantine announced in the country

The Bulgarian airline has cancelled all flights to and from Italy until 4th April and announced the following on their website: Dear passengers and partners, Due to the restrictive measures imposed by decree of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte regading the worsen the situation with the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country, the […]

airBaltic Pilot Academy opens new hangar in Liepaja

airBaltic Training, together with the President of the Republic of Latvia Egils Levits and the airline’s cooperation partners, opened a new hangar in Liepaja today, on March 12, which construction started last August. “If we look at the Baltic countries, airBaltic is the main passenger service provider, and airBaltic figures show that it is a […]

Air China Shifts to Pre-Packaged Food Only & Bottled Water on Some Flights from Europe & USA

Air China have suspended their normal in-flight meal services on some flights to Europe and the US due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The airline released the following statement on their website today: ‘Dear passengers, In accordance with COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control guidelines, and with a view to protecting our crew’s and your own personal […]

Virgin Atlantic Cargo Targets a Bigger Share of £20 Billion UK-India Trade Market with New Service

Businesses moving £20 billion of trade between the UK and India each year will enjoy a direct link to and from the North of England from October 2020 when Virgin Atlantic Cargo launches new Manchester-Delhi services. The route will see Virgin Atlantic fly to Delhi from Manchester for the first time. Starting on 26thOctober, the […]

Qatar Airways Officially Launches Its New Premium Lounge At Singapore Changi Airport

Qatar Airways is delighted to announce it has officially opened its new Premium Lounge at Singapore Changi Airport at Terminal 1, on Friday 14 February 2020. The new Singapore lounge serves as the benchmark and blueprint for Qatar Airways’ future Premium Lounges worldwide. Featuring an ultra luxurious interior and enhanced offerings, the new Premium Lounge […]

KLM-BCG to partner with Virgin Atlantic to digitize operations

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), known together as the KLM-BCG partnership in digital airline operations, have been appointed by Virgin Atlantic Airways to support the airline with optimising and digitising its operations worldwide. The KLM-BCG partnership, based on their shared vision of driving integrated decision making in airline operations, has […]

Helvetic Airways welcomes the Embraer E195-E2 “TechLion” to Zurich

Helvetic Airways welcomed the Embraer E195-E2 “TechLion” to Zurich Airport today. The Swiss regional airline is currently re-equipping its Embraer E190 fleet from the E1 to the E2 generation. Embraer presented its spectacular E195-E2 “TechLion” to the Swiss media today. The Brazil-based manufacturer is currently touring the state-of-the-art twinjet, which is the company’s largest commercial […]

DHL Upgrades its Fleet with Six New Boeing 777 Freighters This Year

DHL Express, the world’s leading international express service provider, is receiving six new Boeing 777F-200 cargo aircraft this year. The first of these planes to come in 2020 landed last Thursday at its future base of operations, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). In 2018 DHL ordered 14 new Boeing 777F, with four delivered in […]

Helvetic Airways welcomes its third latest-generation Embraer E190-E2

Swiss regional airline Helvetic Airways took formal delivery of its third Embraer E190-E2, HB-AZC, at Zurich Airport yesterday (Monday) evening. The third member of Helvetic Airways’ new Embraer E190-E2 aircraft fleet arrived in Zurich on schedule on Monday evening at 22:28 Swiss local time. HB-AZC had crossed the Atlantic in a little over 11 hours, […]

AirFrance Retires First Airbus A380 Super-Jumbo

Following last year’s announcement that just 12 years after it entered commercial service Airbus would end production of its flagship super-jumbo, AirFrance retired it’s first A380 to Ireland West Airport in Knock.  With a capacity for 868 passengers, the Airbus A380 has become an iconic 21st century aircraft. Airbus said it had made the “painful” […]