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Archive for 2008/07/23


PICTURES: Emirates A380 first-class cabin to have showers and private suites

Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has revealed the first images of the interior features on its Airbus A380 aircraft, showing that shower-spas will be among the facilities installed for first-class passengers.
The Dubai-based operator is due to take delivery of its first A380 at a ceremony in Hamburg next week, and details of the cabin interior […]

Job cuts mount at US airlines

US airlines of all sizes are laying off, furloughing and outright firing workers as the oil cost crisis deepens, and the cuts so far are likely just the…

Toll exits Virgin Blue

Australian logistics firm literally gives away 62% share in struggling low-cost carrier Uncertainty over the future of Australia’s Virgin Blue has…

House passes two-year “cooling-off” period for FAA safety inspectors

The US House of Representatives passed a bill requiring Federal Aviation Administration inspectors to wait two years before taking a job at an airline and having to deal with their former government supervisors.
The bill, which passed 392-to-0, would require a two-year ‘cooling off’ period before an FAA safety inspector assigned to a specific […]

PAL ordered to reinstate 1,400 staff sacked in 1998

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has been ordered by the Philippine Supreme Court to reinstate around 1,400 flight attendants who were dismissed in 1998 when the carrier nearly collapsed and entered into receivership.
The Supreme Court’s Third Division says in its ruling that PAL unlawfully dismissed the flight attendants, who were among 5,000 employees laid off in […]