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Norwegian ends long-haul flights to Thailand
Associated Press, Published on 27/11/2019
» COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle says it is ending long-haul routes to Thailand and the United States from two Scandinavian capitals, citing technical issues with the Rolls Royce engines on Boeing 787s and low demand.
Indonesian airline whose plane crashed a low-cost high flyer
Associated Press, Published on 29/10/2018
» Lion Air, the airline whose plane crashed early Monday while traveling from Jakarta to an island off Indonesia's Sumatra with 189 people on board, is a fast-growing low cost airline with a mixed safety record.
Airbus to sell 430 planes to Indigo for $49.5bn
Associated Press, Published on 15/11/2017
» DUBAI: Airbus announced on Wednesday that it will sell 430 aeroplanes to US firm Indigo Partners for $49.5 billion in the European firm's biggest deal ever.
Malaysia Airlines plans to buy 35 more wide-bodied planes
Associated Press, Published on 27/09/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines CEO Peter Bellew says the national carrier plans to buy 35 more wide-bodied planes over the next year as part of a fleet restructuring as it seeks to return to profitability by 2018.
Alitalia files for bankruptcy -- again
Business, Associated Press, Published on 04/05/2017
» MILAN: Struggling Italian flag carrier Alitalia entered its second period of bankruptcy protection in a decade on Tuesday with the government approving a €600 million ($650 million) bridge loan to keep the airline operating as it seeks a new buyer.
Facebook at crossroads in connecting the globe
Associated Press, Published on 22/02/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to boast that his three-year-old effort to bring the developing world online has reached millions of people in some of the world's poorest nations.
Recovery teams find Germanwings black box
Associated Press, Published on 25/03/2015
» SEYNE-LES-ALPES, FRANCE — A black box recovered from the scene and pulverised pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
New Malaysia Airlines CEO a "battle hardened" veteran
Associated Press, Published on 04/03/2015
» HONG KONG – When the owners of embattled Malaysia Airlines went looking for a new CEO to lead its restructuring, they chose a German turnaround specialist known as “The Terminator” to take on what's been dubbed the toughest job in aviation.
AirAsia India to launch in October
Associated Press, Published on 04/07/2013
» NEW DELHI : AirAsia Bhd's new joint venture in India would begin domestic flights in October to underserved Chennai, Bangalore and Cochin cities in the south, the budget airline's group chief executive Tony Fernandes said Wednesday.