05-Mar-2010 IRELAND :
Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today (4th Mar) announced it would open its 41st base at Malta in May 2010 with one based aircraft and 19 routes (6 of which will be new). Ryanair’s new Maltese base will deliver up to 800,000 passengers p.a. (and sustain 800 jobs in Malta) on over 120 weekly flights as Ryanair invests over $70 million at Malta Airport.
05-Mar-2010 UNITED KINGDOM :
Boeing (NYSE: BA) and British Airways today announced that the airline will feature Boeing's Airplane Health Management (AHM) system to monitor the in-flight condition of more than 100 Boeing twin-aisle jetliners. AHM will be used on the airline's current 777 and 747-400 fleets and future deliveries, including 787 Dreamliners.
04-Mar-2010
In the wake of 2009, an extremely difficult year for the world economy and air transport in particular, tentative signs of recovery - depending on the country - have been perceived.
04-Mar-2010 UNITED KINGDOM :
LSG Sky Chefs announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Virgin Atlantic Airways for an extensive range of its products and services. The new contracts, which would commence 1 June 2010, cover UK in-flight catering as well as logistics, product supply and operational support services.
03-Mar-2010
Vladivostok Air airline has concluded electronic interline within the limits of agreements with Bangkok Airways Company Limited and Hainan Airlines Company Limited.
03-Mar-2010 POLAND :
Wizz Air, the largest low fare low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe said it would immediately call on the European Commission to investigate the Hungarian government’s decision to yet again waste significant financial resources into Malév, the struggling and massively loss making national airline.
01-Mar-2010
In a high-level Conference held in Madrid yesterday and today under the auspices of the European Commission and the Spanish Presidency, all stakeholders of the European aviation community agreed to give the necessary impetus to a timely implementation of the Single European Sky.
