29-May-2008
Airbus announced it expects further postponements and cancellations of A320 aircraft orders, due to rising fuel prices, but still plans to increase production levels (Wall Street Journal, 29-May-08).
29-May-2008 UNITED KINGDOM :
easyJet stated its CEO, Andrew Harrison, has lifted his stake in the airline, investing GBP496,000 purchasing 187,452 shares (Reuters, 28-May-08).
29-May-2008
Jet2.com has announced that its premium upgrade service, Jet2Plus, is being made available from all bases and on flights from the UK over 2 hours †a total of 27 destinations in all.
29-May-2008 GERMANY :
Lufthansa CityLineLufthansa Systems has successfully implemented the flight operations module of the content and document management platform Clouds at Lufthansa CityLine. Due to this extension, the system offers an authoring environment for the flight operations documentation. The regional airline thus can enhance the quality of the flight operations documents and reduce time and costs while providing current data.
29-May-2008
S7 Airlines, Russia’s largest air carrier by number of transported passengers on domestic routes, has launched electronic ticketing technology in the reservation system of Sirena-Travel on its own ticket stock.
29-May-2008 UNITED KINGDOM :
bmi has launched an innovative new paperless boarding system, allowing customers checking in online for bmi flights to have their boarding pass delivered electronically to their mobile phone or PDA (personal digital assistant).
29-May-2008
American Airlines announced that it will discontinue service between London’s Stansted Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), with the last flight departing Stansted on 2-Jul. The service was launched in October 2007.
29-May-2008
In a concerted effort to meet the requirements of the IATA (International Air Transport Association), Austrian Airlines will only offer etix® electronic tickets for all its 130 destinations from now onwards.
28-May-2008
Since the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) made it clear that its strategy to lead the aviation industry in combatting climate change was to attack it with committees, the void it created has largely been filled by the European Commission.
28-May-2008
Sukhoi announced it expects orders for its Superjet 100 equipment to double in 2008, and is reportedly in aircraft negotiations with Lufthansa and Air Berlin (RIA Novosti, 27-May-08).
