Oneworld alliance members are to explore whether they can jointly ease their fuel expenditure, as the soaring cost of oil threatens to undermine the group’s relatively strong financial position.
While joint fuel purchase has not been a particularly extensive activity within Oneworld, the alliance’s procurement group is to meet next week to discuss the carriers’ […]

Willie Walsh, British Airways’ chief executive talks to Flight, in Istanbul on the fringes of the IATA annual general meeting, about oil prices and its impact on the industry.
He says, in the video below, that with a softening economic environment and high oil prices, “it’s inevitable [fare] prices will have to go up”. […]

Ferrovial-owned airports operator BAA has named Stephen Peat as managing director for its new airports division, a role in which he will be responsible for running its six other UK airports other than London Heathrow.
Peat is currently director of operations for the Tube Lines consortium, which is regenerating the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines […]

Meteorological data shows that the TACA Airbus A320 which overran in Honduras on 30 May was attempting to land at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin Airport in wet weather conditions and a slight tailwind.
Two passengers and the aircraft’s captain – who had accumulated over 11,000 hours’ flight time – were killed, along with at least one person […]

Meteorological data shows that the TACA Airbus A320 which overran in Honduras on 30 May was attempting to land at Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin Airport in wet weather conditions and a slight tailwind.
Two passengers and the aircraft’s captain – who had accumulated over 11,000 hours’ flight time – were killed, along with at least one person […]