UK all-premium carrier Silverjet has been approached by investors interested in setting up a Middle East franchise venture.
London Luton-based Silverjet serves New York Newark and Dubai using all-business configured Boeing 767s.
A Silverjet spokesman says that since November the airline has been approached by a number of Middle East investors, interested in licensing Silverjet’s […]

Spanish flag-carrier Iberia has yet to decide whether to repair the Airbus A340-600 which overran at Quito after striking the runway so hard during landing that damaged sensors ultimately impeded the aircraft’s deceleration.
Flight IB6463 suffered vertical forces of 3g on touchdown after the crew deliberately descended below the glideslope in a bid to use […]

Royal Brunei Airlines and Singapore Airlines (SIA) are dropping their codeshare arrangement for flights between Brunei and Singapore.
Royal Brunei says in a statement that the codeshare arrangement will end on 31 January by mutual agreement. It does not give a reason.
The two national carriers began codesharing in 2003 on their respective flights between […]

Our Man in Gdansk writes about Poland's eastern border, the non-Schengen, closely guarded one: “A lorry driver died in the 20-mile queue at the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing at Dorohusk. Warsaw sat up and noticed: Poland has an eastern border.”