Exeter-based Flybe has seen its share value drop by 20 per cent after it admitted that poor sales in the UK meant the airline was unlikely to be able to hit revenue targets for the year. The carrier said that the last quarter of 2011 had seen an eight per cent decline in sales when [...]

Dubai-based Emirates has acquired Travel Republic, the UK-based tour company. The firm has been purchased, for an undisclosed amount, by Dnata, the holiday branch of the airline. The move sees the company strengthen its grip on the online travel market and is the latest in a number of takeovers.
Travel Republic’s website attracts around two million [...]

Strikes by Air France flight stewards are due to last until Wednesday and threaten to cause disruption during a busy holiday period in the country. Tuesday is a French public holiday, and many will have taken today off work to extend their weekend break. It is also the middle of the school holidays.
Over the weekend, [...]

Flybe has issued a profit warning as the airline admits that traffic on domestic services continues to be disappointing. This is the second warning in less than six months. The regional carrier, based in Exeter, launched at the end of last year on the London Stock Exchange confident that demand on routes including Edinburgh to [...]

American Airlines, the third largest carrier in the US, has seen its share price plummet as traders fear its parent company, AMR, will be forced to seek bankruptcy protection. In New York, trading was halted at one point when stocks lost 41 per cent of their value. The airline has been struggling against a fall [...]

The government has agreed to allow Air Passenger Duty to be cut in Northern Ireland so that Belfast airport can retain its only US airline route. The decision comes ahead of control of APD being devolved to Stormont. Continental Airlines has previously warned that the current £60 rate added to each flight out of Belfast [...]

British Airways is rolling out its largest advertising campaign in over 10 years as the airline hopes to put a turbulent decade behind it. A television commercial will be aired across Britain and in the US before being shown in other BA markets. Company staff are being featured to show that the flag carrier is [...]

Qantas has said that it aims to emulate British Airways when it launches its new Asian airline which will target executives flying to China. Alan Joyce, the airline’s chief executive, said the new product will feature lie-flat beds in business-class and will be superior to any service currently being offered in Asia. BA flies a [...]

Aviation safety experts are warning that airline pilots are becoming too reliant on aircraft automated systems. A study by the Federal Aviation Administration suggests that pilots’ dependence on technology actually means that many are forgetting how to take control of a plane manually. According to airline captain, Rory Kay, who is co-chair of a pilot [...]

Flights to and from airports in and around New York have been disrupted over the weekend as Hurricane Irene continued to move up the east coast of the US. Services to New York from London were yesterday cancelled by British Airways and the airline said it would continue to assess the situation today.
The New York [...]