Bombardier presents airline and supplier awards for outstanding performance in 2016
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has announced 12 winners of the 2016 Airline Reliability Performance Awards and a winner of a 2016 In-Service Supplier Top Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award. The Airline Reliability Performance Awards recognize operators of Bombardier CRJ Series regional jets and Q Series turboprops who achieve the highest rates of dispatch reliability. To be considered […]
Boeing, Malindo Air Celebrate First 737 MAX Delivery
Boeing (NYSE: BA) today marked the first delivery of the new 737 MAX. The airplane, a 737 MAX 8, was handed over to Malindo Air at the Seattle Delivery Center. The Malaysia-based airline will be the first to put the 737 MAX into commercial service. "This airplane will change the face of the single-aisle market," […]
Customers love to join the club on domestic flights
British Airway"™ new business class cabin on domestic UK flights is proving a real hit with nearly 70,000 customers choosing the premium service in the first six weeks of its operation. Alex Cruz, British Airway"™ chairman and CEO, said: "Club Europe is proving incredibly popular with our customers on domestic services. In just a month-and-a-half […]
IATA’s STB Cargo to push on industry transformation
IATA"™s recently created Simplifying The Business (STB) Cargo project will aim to push industry transformation in the areas of visibility, processes and booking. Speaking at an Air Cargo Europe conference session, Celine Hourcade, head of cargo transformation at IATA, said STB Cargo had been developed out of the flagship IATA STB programme and was launched […]
IAG Cargo increases focus on smaller forwarders
IAG Cargo has launched a new loyalty programme named FWD.Rewards which is aimed at the small and medium sized forwarder market. The programme will allow businesses to earn points every time they ship, which can then be converted into commercial flights, hotel stays or cargo credit. "The programme has been developed in partnership with our […]
Fights break out in Ft. Lauderdale airport after Spirit airlines cancels 9 flights
Hundreds of people’s tempers flared in a Fort Lauderdale International Airport terminal for Spirit Airlines Monday night after several flights were canceled. In footage captured by witnesses, airport security is seen moving in quickly and a number of people are arrested. It all started after nine flights were canceled. Spirit Airlines is currently negotiating with […]
7 Best airlines for customers service
In the wake of a terrible month for airlines and their reputations, we’re remember brighter moments of great customer service in the air. Want your next flight to go as smoothly as possible? You may want to be flying one of these. Southwest Airlines In 2015, Peggy Uhle was onboard a Southwest Airlines plane leaving […]
New look, New York: British Airways unveils plans for JFK terminal 7
British Airways today unveiled details of its multi-million pound re-design for New York JFK Terminal 7, the airline"™s flagship US airport. New CGI images give customers a first glimpse of what the terminal will look like following a more than £52 million ($65 million) investment, which will transform the airport experience for the thousands of […]
Achieving Supply Chain Visibility in 2017
Supply chain visibility is the need of the hour if, as a company, you want to ensure a complete product or service experience for the customer. When we started LogiNext, we had a clear vision. We wanted to create a system that could track anything, anywhere, anytime for the client. Since then, I have seen […]
Surfing above the clouds: Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines now going online on short haul and mid-range flights
Send emails from a height of 32,808 feet, shop online while soaring over the Alps, stream videos above the clouds – and all of that with broadband quality. Soon, passengers of Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines will be able to go online on shorter journeys too – as they have already been able to do for […]
