Rising oil prices and weakening economic conditions will drive the world’s airlines back into losses this year after a return to profitability in 2007, according…

Japan’s All Nippon Airways is preparing to issue a long-awaited request for proposals for ultra-large aircraft that will see the Airbus A380 in an intense…

JetBlue Airways subsidiary LiveTV has agreed to purchase Verizon Airfone’s network, in a move that enables LiveTV to push forward with offering basic in-flight connectivity across the low-cost carrier’s fleet as well as other airlines that have committed to adopting the e-mail and messaging service, Continental Airlines and Frontier Airlines.
Under the transaction, LiveTV on […]

Russian low-cost carrier Red Wings has taken delivery of its first new-build Perm PS90A-powered Tu-204-100B from Aviastar factory in Ulyanovsk. The…

Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to conduct its first Airbus A380 service to New York JFK on 1 August, two months earlier than originally planned.
Emirates is due to take delivery of its first example on 28 July, and the carrier’s timetable currently shows it will perform two return flights from Dubai to New York […]