Japan airlines rises from the ashes
The emergence of Japan Airlines from the ashes of bankruptcy into the limelight of this month’s public listing is a tale marked by superlatives. JAL is relisting on the Tokyo…
Qantas / Emirates – long haul to recovery
If you can’t buy ’em, form an alliance. The airline industry is littered with such agreements. Emirates and Qantas claim theirs is a new sort of deal, but they would…
Qantas agrees to alliance with Emirates
Qantas Airways has announced an overhaul of its lossmaking international business after striking a deal with Emirates that will see Dubai replace Singapore as the stopover point for its European…
Aeroflot profits fall 98% after consolidation
Net profits at Aeroflot, the Russian flag carrier slated for partial privatisation, plunged 98 per cent in the first half of this year to just $7.1m. The company said the…
Heathrow expansion decision shelved
©PA An environmental protester makes his views clear in the mass campaign that preceded the 2010 election. Fresh battle lines now loom A decision on whether to expand Heathrow airport…
Emirates set to unveil Qantas partnership
©AFP Emirates Airline is set to announce plans on Thursday for a far-reaching partnership with Qantas in a move that would prompt the Australian flag carrier to seek the dissolution…
EasyJet to roll out allocated seating
©EPA EasyJet has decided to expand its summer experiment in allocated seating to the entire fleet from November, after determining that assigning passengers places did not add to costs but…
Reshuffle seen to pave way for Heathrow U-turn
The removal of Justine Greening as transport secretary and the appointment of Patrick McLoughlin as her successor has been widely interpreted as paving the way for the Conservatives to perform…
Japan, where capital flows to yesterday’s companies
In the next couple of weeks, bondholders will vote on the fate of Covalent Materials, the Japanese technology group formerly known as Toshiba Ceramics, which was the object of a…
Ryanair eyes Stansted stake
Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s chief executive, would push for a second runway at Stansted “as soon as possible” if the budget carrier were to take a stake in London’s third biggest…
Lufthansa crews strike in Germany
Passengers at Germany’s main airports faced widespread disruption on Tuesday as cabin crew working for Lufthansa staged a second round of strikes at short notice following the breakdown of talks…
Cabinet tension on Heathrow expansion
Cabinet tensions over airport policy came to the fore again on Sunday after George Osborne said the government should examine “all the options” for expanding the south-east’s runway capacity, including…
Dispute over third runway will not go away
Tim Yeo, the former Conservative environment minister and one-time third runway opponent, this week challenged David Cameron, prime minister, to decide if he is “man or mouse” and back Heathrow…
American and US Airways step closer to deal
AMR, the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, took a step closer to a potential merger with US Airways on Friday when the two signed a confidentiality agreement as part of…
Strike forces Lufthansa to cancel flights
Dozens of Lufthansa flights have been cancelled at Frankfurt airport after cabin crew at the German airline staged a strike on Friday in an escalation of a pay dispute. The…