The proposal would increase the existing passenger service charge by €11.25 for passengers travelling within the European Union, and flights under 2500 km. It would also increase by €45 for passengers to other destinations, this is considered ineffective and inappropriate - as it breaches internatio...

British Airways has opened an investigation after two aircraft were involved in a "minor collision" at Heathrow Airport in London. A Sri Lankan Air Line A340 collided with British Airways (BA) Boeing 747 while both were taxing at around 10.20 last night according to an airport spokesman. "Heathrow A...

Washington - After a gala unveiling this summer and an upbeat list of orders, Boeing Company Wednesday said it was delaying delivery of its much-anticipated 787 Dreamliner by six months. The Dreamliner - the chief rival to European Airbus' A350 XWB - was originally expected off the assembly line for...

India-based airline GoAir has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft purchased directly from Airbus of France. The delivery is the first from an agreement for a total of 10 Airbus A320 family ordered in 2006. All the aircraft from this order will seat 180 passengers in an all-economy layout. Jeh ...

An All Nippon Airways airplane carrying 165 passengers and crew landed on the wrong runway at Osaka's Itami Airport on Friday, prompting another plane to stop to avoid a possible collision. No one was injured in the incident. ANA Flight 448 from Matsuyama landed on Runway A at 5:45 p.m., despite rec...

A teenage boy has somehow survived a two-hour flight clinging to the wing of a Boeing 737. The 15-year-old, named Andrei, clambered into a wing's wheel well after running away from his Siberian home. He was only discovered when the plane landed in Moscow - and is now being treated in hospital for se...

Emirates carrier to add Venice, Sao Paulo this year Dubai-based Emirates Airlines is pushing for an Open Skies agreement between Canada and the United Arab Emirates to better serve trade and tourism between the countries. Emirates will begin flying several times a week between Toronto and Dubai at t...

WestJet Airlines Ltd. updated its fleet expansion forecast yesterday, saying it now hopes to have 118 Boeing 737s by 2013. The Calgary-based airline's newly appointed chief executive Sean Durfy told a group gathered at an investor's conference in London that he wants to make WestJet the "dominant ca...

BRITISH AIRWAYS is considering splitting a long-awaited $15 billion (£7.4 billion) aircraft order between Boeing and Airbus, according to senior insiders at the company. A recommendation for the replacement of most of the airline’s long-haul fleet will go to directors within three weeks. Until now, ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, scraped the tip of a wing on a building at Bangkok's international airport Saturday as it was preparing for a demonstration flight, officials of the aircraft company and Thai Airways said. \The plane, which had been taxiing...

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The Boeing Company announced that an order from Brazil's TAM Airlines for four additional 777-300ERs brings to 1,003 the number of 777s ordered since the first order of the widebody plane in 1990; financial details were not disclosed. The company added that the announcem...

Boeing Co. said that a 777-200 extended range airplane built for Korean Air is the 3,000th plane built at its Everett assembly plant. The 40-year-old facility builds 747, 767 and 777 planes and will build the upcoming 787. Officials at Chicago-based Boeing (NYSE: BA) said more than 80 percent of the...

LOS ANGELES — A WestJet airliner on a flight from Calgary was involved in a near-miss Thursday with another jet on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport, aviation officials said. The close call happened at about 1 p.m. and appeared to have been the result of mistakes made by both the arriv...

An Air New Zealand airplane on a domestic flight made a safe emergency landing on one engine in the southern city of Christchurch today. The Boeing 737 airplane, carrying 73 passengers, was heading to the resort of Queenstown from the northern city of Auckland when it diverted to Christchurch after ...

Landing signal given on uncleared runway; KAC pilot averts disaster at airport KUWAIT CITY: The alert pilot of Kuwait Airways Corporation’s (KAC) flight KU 672, which was coming from Dubai to Kuwait, recently averted a disaster when he decided not to land after seeing another plane ready to take off...

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has agreed to lease seven new Airbus aircraft from Kuwait's Aviation Lease and Finance Company (Alafco), the national flag carrier said. The aircraft will replace PIA's Boeing 737-300 fleet, which has served the airline for more than 20 years, PIA said in a stat...

MOSCOW, August 8. /FIS/. This statement was made to ITAR-TASS by press secretary of 'Sukhoi's Civil Aircraft' Olga Kayukova while giving comment on the news disseminated in Rome that the lower chamber of the Italian parliament approved the draft law on the placement of the plant assembling Russian m...

South Korea's state-funded aircraft maker said Monday it had signed a 500-million-dollar contract to sell trainer aircraft to Turkey's air force in Seoul's biggest aviation deal. Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) said in a statement that 55 upgraded KT-1 trainers would be supplied by 2013 under the c...

CATHAY PACIFIC, the Hong Kong-based airline, is in early talks with Airbus and Boeing, the plane manufacturers, about spending up to E2bn ($2.74bn, £1.35bn) on expanding its fleet. The European aerospace giant owned by EADS has been campaigning hard for its A380 super-jumbo and the smaller A350 to f...

Boeing said on Thursday its commercial plane orders for the year stood at 580, on a par with last year's record-breaking performance, but trailing rival Airbus. The Chicago-based plane maker, which unveiled its 787 Dreamliner on Sunday, reported 36 new orders in the past week -- 35 for 787s and one ...

British airline bmi said on Tuesday it was buying 10 new Airbus aircraft worth around USD$750 million to expand its medium-haul and long-haul routes from London's Heathrow Airport. Five additional Airbus A330s worth about USD$500 million will join the three it already has, with the first new aircraf...

ALMATY, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Six passengers were injured when a Turkish passenger plane failed to take off at the Almaty international airport two days ago, emergency authorities said Monday. The Turkish Airbus A-300 airliner, which was to fly from Alamaty to the Turkish city of Attalea on Saturday, s...

Oman Air plans to double its fleet to about 25 single-aisle and wide-body jets by 2011, the Oman Daily Observer reported. CEO Ziad Karim Al Haremi said the carrier would be looking at major purchases of new-generation Airbus 350 and Boeing 787 aircraft. Oman Air currently has 12 narrow-body, single-...

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- AirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's largest budget carrier, plans to place an order for 25 single- aisle planes, valued at $1.8 billion from Airbus SAS, two people with direct knowledge of the deal said. AirAsia is converting options for A320 planes that were part of an order placed...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Bernama) -- Local airline Fly Asian Xpress (FAX) has signed an agreement with Airbus to buy 15 A330-300 aircraft, an increase of five to its initial commitment for 10 A330-300 aircraft in April this year. "The firming up of the additional orders reaffirms our ambition to be th...