Level flights now avaiable at vueling.com
Flights on LEVEL can now be booked via the website of its sister airline Vueling at vueling.com in addition to flylevel.com Customers from across Vueling"™s 137 European destinations can book flights to the airline"™s home base at Barcelona which connect onto LEVEL"™s longhaul network with a single ticket. The first LEVEL flight will take off […]
Fixing airline customer service: Lawmakers should treat disease instead of symptoms
The Tuesday congressional hearing on airline"™ consumer practices might feature a lot of talk on issues like overbooking and passenger compensation, but one major issue underlies major carrier"™ recent foibles: dwindling choice in the aviation marketplace. One of the four biggest domestic airlines (American, Delta, Southwest and United) currently controls over 50 percent of seat […]
JetBlue MRO Apprentice Program Addresses Technician Shortage
JetBlue Airways says its in-house apprentice program is a partial solution to the looming maintenance technician workforce shortage, an executive with the airline tells Aviation Week. The median age for maintenance technicians at U.S. airlines is 51 years, or nine years older than the rest of the country"™s labor pool, and new technicians are not […]
Malaysia Airlines CEO attempts ‘greatest turnaround’
It may be the toughest job in the aviation industry. Peter Bellew is overseeing the revamping of Malaysia Airlines, the struggling carrier that was nationalized after it lost two passenger jets with hundreds of people aboard in separate disasters in 2014. Bellew, the airline’s third CEO in less than three years, has clear ideas for […]
Business Travel: Iberia offering more frills without paying Business Class premium
The former sick man of Europe, Spain’s Iberia, has become something of the star performer – outshadowing even sister airline Aer Lingus – in Willie Walsh’s International Airlines Group (IAG). In a turnaround faster than a Ryanair jet rushing to catch a slot, the former underperformer has boosted performance times, management culture and the bottom […]
Qatar Airways wins ‘Airline with the Best Business Class’ & ‘Airline with the Best Cabin Crew’
Qatar Airways has won two accolades at the prestigious Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2017. The national carrier has been named the "Airline with the Best Business Clas" and the "Airline with the Best Cabin Crew" based on votes submitted by the readers of the regional edition of the industry magazine. Qatar Airways Country Manager […]
Qatar Airways achieves compliance with IATA Resolution 753 certification
Resolution 753 was developed to reduce mishandling and baggage fraud, increase passenger satisfaction and enhance the overall baggage management landscape at airports around the world, and Qatar Airways is the first airline in the world to compliance with this certification. Qatar Airways has become the first airline in the world to achieve compliance with the […]
Airbus e SITA se unem para fornecer servicos para indústria de transporte aéreo
A Airbus e a SITA lançaram o Security Operations Center Services, personalizado para as necessidades especÃficas da indústria de transporte aéreo. Este novo serviço de detecção de incidentes fornece às companhias aéreas, aeroportos e outros envolvidos com o setor de transporte aéreo informações sobre atividades cibernéticas incomuns que podem impactar em seus negócios. Este serviço […]
ALTA Supports ANAC Resolution 400/2016 on New Airline Passenger Rules
During participation at the Wings of Change conference today in Rio de Janeiro, ALTA (the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association) reiterated that the association supports Brazil"™s National Civil Aviation Agency"™s (ANAC) proposed airline passenger rules and regulations under Resolution 400/2016. The new proposed rules benefit consumers and bring Brazil closer to more airline […]
Emirates explores options for passengers hit by US laptop ban
Emirates may offer passengers loaner laptops as the world"™s biggest long-haul carrier seeks to soften the blow from a US ban on electronics in airplane cabins. The Dubai-based airline may explore "creative" ways to work around the ban if it remains in place over the long term, president Tim Clark said in an interview with […]
