Qatar Airways loaning laptops to business-class passengers
Qatar Airways will begin a free laptop loan program next week for business class passengers traveling to the U.S. The move is an effort to alleviate the inconvenience caused by the Trump administration’s recently imposed ban on carry-on electronics for passengers flying from eight Middle Eastern and North Africa countries, including Qatar. «While other airlines […]
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner Completes First Flight
The Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner took to the skies for the first time today at Boeing South Carolina. The airplane, which is the newest and longest model of the 787 family, completed a successful flight totaling four hours and 58 minutes. "The 787-10"™s first flight moves us one step closer to giving our customers the most […]
Austrian Airlines Adorns Boeing 777 Jet with the Blue Danube Waltz
The Blue Danube Waltz is not only on board Austrian Airlines flights, but now also on the exterior of one of the airline"™s aircraft. Just in time to commemorate the launch of flight service to Los Angeles, Austrian Airlines adorned a Boeing 777 with the name "Spirit of Austria" with an 148-footlong line stave of […]
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 […]
American Air to invest US$200m in China Southern deal
American Airlines Group Inc agreed to acquire a minority stake in China Southern Airlines Co for US$200 million, cementing a partnership between the top carriers in the US and Asia. China Southern will issue 270.6 million shares in its Hong Kong-listed company to the world’s largest airline at HK$5.74 apiece, the Guangzhou-based carrier said in […]
Cathay Pacific Airways and Lufthansa Group agree on cooperation
Cathay Pacific Airways, the Hong Kong"“based airline, and the Lufthansa Group, Europe"™s leading airline group, will offer their passengers selected flights under their partner"™s flight number in the future (code-sharing). For Lufthansa Group customers, this will significantly improve the connections available from Hong Kong towards Australia and New Zealand. A corresponding agreement was signed today […]
United States to ban some airline passengers from carrying electronics after ‘terror threat’
According to an Associated Press report, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly talked to lawmakers over the phone on the weekend to brief on a security issue, thought to have in part prompted the incoming ban. In messages posted on both Twitter and Facebook and now deleted, the global carrier said cellphones and electronic devices needed […]
The world"™s best airport terminal is in Munich
Munich Airport and Lufthansa can bask in the glory of a highly coveted accolade: At the 2017 World Airports Award, announced by the London-based Skytrax Institute, Munich Airport’s Terminal 2 was honored as the world’s number one terminal. The rankings are based on a survey of 14 million passengers around the world. Terminal 2, which […]
Lufthansa Group transports 12.4 percent more passengers in February than in previous year
The airlines of the Lufthansa Group transported some 7.8 million passengers in February, 12.4% more than in the same period last year. Total capacity for the month was up 8.5% in available seat-kilometer terms and total traffic volume, measured in revenue passenger-kilometers, increased by 12.6% despite one additional day in February 2016 due to the […]
New South Korean carrier KAIR Airlines orders eight A320s
South Korean start-up carrier KAIR Airlines has announced that it has selected the A320 Family to launch its new low cost operation, with a firm order for eight A320ceo. The new airline will be based in Cheongju in central South Korea and will focus primarily on services to international destinations in North East Asia. "We […]
