Airline News - Europe.
7/21/2008
Air France KLM, SNCF
Air France KLM is in preliminary talks with state rail company SNCF
about high-speed train cooperation even before the liberalization of
rail travel by 2010, . . .
Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
7/21/2008
General Tours World Traveler, Singapore Airlines
General Tours World Traveler, in partnership with Singapore
Airlines and the Singapore Tourism Board, introduced nine . . .
Airline News - Africa / Middle East.
7/21/2008
Emirates Airlines
Emirates Airlines will carry an additional 500kg of water on its
Airbus A380s to feed the shower installations being fitted as a feature
of the first-class cabin. . . .
Inside Air Travel.
7/30/2008
Showers Above the Clouds
By Spencer Rumsey
Emirates Airlines made history this week by launching flights with
showers for first-class passengers on its first Airbus A380 . . .
Inside Air Travel.
Edited by Spencer Rumsey
Pressure is mounting on U.S. and international carriers to offer
seamless in-flight Internet service so business travelers can stay
connected from the moment they leave . . .
Travel Technology News.
7/14/2008
Amadeus
Amadeus introduced the first module of Amadeus Airline Service
Fees, a solution that automatically prices and collects ticketing,
credit card and miscellaneous fees in direct . . .
Travel Health & Environment Watch.
7/14/2008
US FAA Office of Environment and Energy Director Carl Burleson said
yesterday that the agency hopes to have a "synthetic fuel
blend" for powering commercial aircraft "certified by the . . .
Destination News - Destination, Rail, Road.
7/14/2008
Modernizing systems is particularly important in Europe, where
domestic rail is slated for liberalized regulation in 2010, with
international rail travel to follow in 2017. Unless rail . . .
Travel Security Update.
7/14/2008
Air Canada
Terrorists plotted to blow up Canada-bound passenger planes over
the mid-Atlantic in 2006, according to allegations that surfaced in a
British courtroom Wednesday at the . . .
Travel Safety Update - North America.
7/14/2008
Boeing
US FAA issued new airworthiness directives this week requiring
"repetitive inspections for cracking" of overwing frames on
McDonnell Douglas MD-80s and of the upper frame to . . .
Travel Safety Update - Latin America / Caribbean.
7/14/2008
Kalitta Air, Boeing
A Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200F crashed yesterday into a home shortly
after takeoff from Bogota, killing three occupants in the house, fewer
than 24 hr. after a USA . . .
Travel Safety Update - Asia / Pacific.
7/14/2008
Korean Air Lines
A Korean Air Lines jet made an emergency landing at an airport on
Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on Thursday, but no one was
injured. Television showed the . . .
Travel Safety Update - Africa / Middle East.
7/14/2008
Kenya Airways
Kenya Airways, one of Africa's leading carriers, is recovering
from the loss of a Boeing 737-800, which crashed in Cameroon last year.
It was also hit hard by . . .
Low Cost Airline News - North America.(Company overview)
7/14/2008
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines, the nation's leading low-fare carrier,
prides itself on its consistent profits and consistent service. Being
consistently late isn't part of the . . .
Low Cost Airline News - Europe.
7/14/2008
Ryanair
Ryanair also announced the launch of new service from Leeds
Bradford to Girona (four-times-weekly beginning Oct. 1) and Alicante
(thrice-weekly from Oct. 28). 7/18/2008
. . .
Low Cost Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
7/14/2008
Jetstar Airways
Jetstar Airways will launch daily Perth-Singapore on Dec. 2 aboard
an A320. 7/18/2008
V Australia
V Australia, the international arm of Virgin Blue, announced . . .
Airline News - North America.
7/14/2008
Airlines have asked their customers to lobby Congress on
legislation that would more tightly regulate speculative futures
trading, which carriers as well as some energy experts blame . . .
Airline News - Latin America / Caribbean.
7/14/2008
Aerolineas Argentinas
Aerolineas Argentinas' future ownership structure, agreed to
earlier this year, has been cast in doubt and Argentina's
government reportedly is considering a . . .
Airline News - Europe.
7/14/2008
European Parliament's new agreement and said that according to
the European Commission's impact assessment, "Fully passing on
costs to customers would mean that by 2020 airline tickets . . .
Airline News - Asia / Pacific.
7/14/2008
The first weekend of charter flights across the Taiwan Strait
concluded Monday with 11 carriers having offered services, which many
regard as an important step toward the opening of . . .
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