As part of its promotion of British talent, British Airways will repaint its planes with a dove design as a celebration of this summer’s Olympic Games in London. The artwork is the creation of Pascal Anson, a Brighton-based artist. BA also said that it would be redecorating some of its Boeing 747s and Airbus 319s [...]

Flag carrier British Airways has said that it will not be able to hire as many staff next year as it had planned to. The airline claims that the decision to hike Air Passenger Duty next year is the reason it will have to reduce the number of new jobs from 800 to just 400. [...]

Air France has announced that it will not be allowing further maintenance work on its passenger jets by Chinese company Taeco. The decision was made after the French flag-carrier discovered that 30 screws on one of its ‘planes were missing. The incident occurred in the middle of last month.
The airline said that a protective panel [...]

This week, the European Union made the decision to add four airlines to a list of carriers which are not allowed to fly to or from any of the 27 members of the bloc. Filipino company Aeromajestic and Interisland Airlines, The Republic of Congo’s Equatorial Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Stella Airlines have [...]

Middle Eastern airline Emirates has announced an order for 50 Boeing 777s at the Dubai Airshow. The deal is worth around $18 billion at list price, and is the largest single order for Boeing aircraft ever made, according to the airline’s chief executive and chairman, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum. He called the order a [...]

Passengers on board a jet flying to Poland from New Jersey have had a lucky escape after the pilot was forced to land the plane on its belly. The LOT Airlines Boeing 767 was forced to crash land in Warsaw after the landing gear failed to deploy. According to local reports, an electrical fire on [...]

British Airways currently has more Boeing 747 jumbo jets operating than any other airline in the world. However, the fleet is ageing and the carrier has said that it is looking for a replacement. According to Alexander Grant, fleet manager for BA, the likely contenders are the Boeing 777-9X, the Boeing 787-10 and the widebody [...]

Asia’s Singapore Airlines has announced that it is considering placing an order with European planemaker Airbus for the wide-body A350-1000 as the manufacturer continues to make improvements. The carrier will also be looking at the A350-1000’s competitor at Boeing, the 777-300 ER. Although he made no comment about how many aircraft it was thinking of [...]

Passengers on a Nepal Airlines jet are being offered a second night’s accommodation in Hong Kong as the Boeing 757 they were due to fly out on is grounded because a mouse was spotted in the cockpit. So far, efforts to capture the rodent have not been successful. According to Sita Gurung, general manager for [...]

Europe’s largest airline, Air France-KLM, has confirmed that its latest order of wide-body aircraft is to be split between planemakers Airbus and Boeing. Chief executive, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, told French politicians that the airline would be placing an order for around 100 new aircraft and that the order would be split between the two rival manufacturers.
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