Netherlands-based Martinair is to expand its cargo capacity from Colombo and Ecuador, with one additional flight each week from Bogotá and Quito to Europe to meet the increasing needs ofthose countries’ flower export markets. … [Read more...] about Martinair
Carriers
Airbus
Airbus COO-Customers John Leahy said the manufacturer has agreed to sell 280 additional aircraft to Chinese airlines. He was in Tianjin to mark the opening of the newest A320 Family Final Assembly Line. Leahy said as many as 160 of the new aircraft orders could be approved by Beijing and officially announced by year end. Th ey will help Airbus tally about 850 total orders for2008, he added. … [Read more...] about Airbus
Arik Air
Arik Air, the growing private airline based in Lagos, Nigeria, has signed a firm contract for the purchase of three Airbus A340-500s. This order makes Arik Air the 10th and latest customer for theA340-500. … [Read more...] about Arik Air
United Airlines
United Airlines doubled its fee tocheck a second bag on North American flights to US$50, blaming the increaseon “volatile” fuel prices. The new chargeapplies to customers who purchasetickets for travel up until 10 November.It said the new fee schedule will generatean estimated $700 million in revenuein 2009. … [Read more...] about United Airlines
XL Airways
XL Airways UK grounded all flights last month after its parent company, XL Leisure Group, the UK’s third-largest tour operator, was put into administration, leaving an estimated 85,000 passengersstranded abroad. … [Read more...] about XL Airways
Qantas
Qantas used the handover ceremony of its first A380 in Toulouse recently to announce that it is likely to add to the 20 of the type it already has on order. CEO Geoff Dixon and his successor, Alan Joyce, made clear that a new order is a virtual certainty, though Dixon qualified that any order would have to be within QF’s current A$35 billion ($27.9 billion) budget for capital spending on aircraft. Its first commercial A380 flight will be from Melbourne to Los Angeles on 20October. … [Read more...] about Qantas
