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Virgin Express abandons Belgian merger
- Feb 28, 2025
Merger talks between SN Brussels Airlines, the successor airline of collapsed Sabena, and Virgin Express have collapsed.In a company statement,…
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Virgin Atlantic orders $2 billion worth of new Airbus aircraft
- Feb 20, 2025
Virgin Atlantic airline has confirmed it will be ordering $2 billion (£1.35 billion) worth of new Airbus aircraft and 50…
State bails out air traffic control
- Feb 19, 2025
The Government has agreed to a £30 million emergency bail out of the cash-strapped newly-privatised air traffic control service.After a…
NATS denies financial crisis reports
- Feb 19, 2025
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has denied that the four banks which helped fund its part-privatisation are now threatening to…
Report says BA was wrong to sell Go
- Feb 19, 2025
British Airways' current problems are due to bad decision making, as well as tough market conditions, according to a new…
BA denies headhunting for new chairman
- Feb 15, 2025
British Airways is denying appointing headhunters to find a new chairman, amid press speculation that it's under pressure to force…
American Airlines and British Airways drop alliance application
- Feb 15, 2025
American and British Airways has filed a document with the US Transportation Department to dismiss their alliance application.The alliance was…
Reduction in business travel drags SAS into Q4 loss
- Feb 14, 2025
SAS, the Scandinavian carrier, has announced a sharp fall into losses in the fourth-quarter. The Stockholm-based airline lost SKr997m in…
Iranian passenger plane crash – 117 feared dead
- Feb 12, 2025
All 117 passengers onboard an Iranian passenger plane are believed to have been killed when it crashed into mountains in…
Heathrow trials iris recognition
- Feb 11, 2025
A five-month trial using the latest iris recognition technology to speed up the arrivals process and maximise space in the…
BAA passenger figures show further improvement
- Feb 11, 2025
BAA’s passenger figures for January indicate that confidence in air travel is continuing to return following the September 11 terrorist…
Go and EasyJet passenger numbers rise
- Feb 07, 2025
Go and EasyJet have both reported an increase in passenger traffic in January.Go said passenger traffic rose 74.2 per cent…
