Hour-long lines on third day of security staff strikes at Barcelona airport
Security staff at Barcelona"™s El Prat airport resumed their partial strike on Monday morning, causing delays of up to an hour for passengers boarding at both terminals. Representatives of Eulen, the company that employs the security staff, as well as labor union delegates, were due to meet with officials from AENA, the Spanish airports authority […]
Lufthansa is Europe"™s best airline
Lufthansa has been voted the "Best Airline in Europe". The award was given at the Paris Air Show on June 20, 2017, in Le Bourget. The market research institute Skytrax surveyed approximately 18 million passengers from over 160 countries worldwide. In the survey, passengers from across the globe spoke in favor of the German premium […]
Venezuela’s Conviasa suspends international operations
Conviasa has suspended international operations as of Friday, May 5. Venezuelan media outlets report the state-owned carrier was unable to source enough foreign currency to pay for its fleet’s insurance premiums leading to its grounding. ch-aviation analysis of Venezuelan airport departure and arrival data confirms that domestic operations with its EMB-190s are continuing as of […]
British Airways flight from LAX to Heathrow was forced to divert to Iceland after off-duty cabin crew worker ‘slit their wrists’
A BRITISH Airways plane was diverted after a member of airline staff tried to kill himself at 38,000ft. The cabin crew worker is understood to have slit his wrists in a cabin toilet on BA Flight 282 from Los Angeles to London. There was horror on board the giant Airbus 380 when staff made the […]
TSA vows to alleviate gridlock at airport security
Faced with reports of soaring security wait times at U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will increase both human and canine security staff at airports this summer, and has asked Congress for additional funding to pay screening officers more overtime. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson took note of the «significant increase» in both travelers […]
Aeroflot Group to recruit 6,000+ ex-Transaero staff
Aeroflot Group is to proceed with plans to recruit up to 6,060 ex-Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Vnukovo) employees following a Group Board of Directors meeting last week. Broken down, the Group says it is looking at recruiting around 700 pilots; around 1,000 engineering and technical personnel; around 2,800 flight attendants; around 1,200 ground service crew; […]
