Airline NEWZ

November 16, 2007
British Airways is getting criticized for the frequent delays and the loss of luggage. In addition for empty planes being send across the Atlantic due to poor staff planning.

May 18, 2007
Oasis has started to connect London with Hongkong for 99 Euro.

April 30, 2007
Emirates and Cathay Pacific have suspended flights to Sri Lanka for security reason after another air raid by the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers.

April 10, 2007
German Lufthansa is taking over the Spanish Iberia Airline.

March 25, 2007
LTU was taken over by Air Berlin.

February 03, 2007
British Airways seeks improved earnings with charging for excess luggage up to 360 Euro and by reducing from 32 down to 23 kg.

January 12, 2007
From Malaysia comes the new AirAsia-X Airline which will launch in July London - Kuala Lumpur one-way at a promotional rate of 3 Euro. Later the regular price will be around 100 Euro.

The Spanish Airline Air Madrid went broke and more than 100.000 passengers had suffered from canceled flights.

In 2006 the travel industry has increased online sales and bookings by 26% to a new record high of $24,6 billion.

Analysts believe that worldwide passangers will double until 2020.

Emirates owned Sri Lankan Airlines has emerged as one of the best Airlines connecting Europe with South Asia.

Japan Airlines is now also offering language courses on board.

In the U.S. a woman was sent off a Southwest plane because of her T-shirt with some anti Bush/Cheney slogans.

German Lufthansa`s low coast branch German Wings is giving away 300.000 tickets for free over the Internet as a new form of advertising. Before the DBA had done a similar campaign, where the lucky receivers will only have to pay taxes and airport fees.

Northwest Airlines and Delta Air are expected to file for bankruptcy within the next few days so that around 50% of all airline seats in the U.S. will be offered by bankrupt carriers such as U.S. Airways and United Airlines. Meanwhile JetBlue and Southwest have become the market leaders. Also Olympic Airlines seems to be in turbulence.

The still very profitable airline Ryan Air is giving 4 million tickets for free. Passenger only need to cover taxes and fees and the flights are within Europe.

Former British-Airways-Manager David Spurlock has founded a new luxury Airline with the name Eos which is dedicated to business clients and using Boeing jets.

ICAO aviation controllers complained, that 30 countries do not comply with Internationally required safety standards when checking the technical condition of their planes. Now several carriers such as Phuket Airlines, Thailand have been banned from France and Belgium. Here`s the full list.

Cathay Pacific has been named once again the best Airline in the world, followed by Quantas, Emirates and Singapore Airlines.

airlinemeals.net has emerged as the leading website on catering with many reports, pictures and other information on airlines and their approach to customer services.

The Dutch KLM is reported to be the airline, that is losing the most luggage whilst Turkish Airlines has been named as most reliable.

China and India have become the worldwide hottest tourist markets with rapidly expanding Airlines. Now Boeing and Airbus Industries are in for a drastic competition, but with huge business for both of them.

In Germany the DBA has sold 0,5 million one tickets in supermarkets at €50 to all their European destinations. The demand had been huge and additional revenues worth €30 are expected.

A court near London had demanded from fast growing Ryan Air that all prices introduced on the Internet should be complete.

British Airways now only offers E tickets.

The Dutch Airline V-Bird is bankrupt.

wizzair is a new airline that is expanding fast from former communist countries like Poland, Hungary and Romania with very competitive offers.

US Airways seems to be going bankrupt shortly and British Airways has canceled 1.000 flights due to a shrinking markets