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Travellers will soon be able to book flights on up to eight low-cost airlines on one website, as part of a new tie-up between eight Asian budget carriers, including Singapore Airlines subsidiaries Scoot and Tigerair. Created earlier this month, the Value Alliance – the world’s biggest grouping of budget airlines …

The Department of Transportation must still award five daytime slots at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, which were opened up earlier this year under an agreement between the U.S. and Japan. Hawaiian Airlines is the first U.S. carrier to score one of six coveted slots at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport after the Department …

The scarcity of aviation fuel affecting the aviation industry grew worse on Monday as many air travellers across the country endured varying degrees of hardship due to flight cancellations. From airport terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Warri, Owerri, Port Harcourt, Asaba and in the North, our correspondent gathered that virtually …

Abuja—The Federal Government yesterday dropped hints of closing down Abuja airport as a precautionary measure because of the bad state of the runway. The Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, who dropped the hint at the 2016 Aviation Stakeholders Summit in Abuja, also said the government would concession the …

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said that the new Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (NCARs) promulgated in December, 2015, will take effect from July 1, 2016. The General Manager Public Relations, NCAA, Mr Sam Adurogboye, who made this known in an online statement made available to journalists, explained that …

Mumbai: One hundred and sixty-three passengers on a Mumbai-bound Lufthansa flight from the German city of Munich had a miraculous escape here after four tyres of the plane were damaged while landing. In an official statement, the German national carrier said, “On May 13, at 10:50 PM local time, four …

ROSWELL, N.M. –American Airlines Flight 9780 arrives from Dallas/Fort Worth and taxis past a line of other MD-80 passenger jets as the morning sun rises over the New Mexico desert on a chilly morning this past winter. But as the jet comes to a stop, there’s no boarding gate or …

A BRITISH Airways plane was diverted after a member of airline staff tried to kill himself at 38,000ft. The cabin crew worker is understood to have slit his wrists in a cabin toilet on BA Flight 282 from Los Angeles to London. There was horror on board the giant Airbus …

Two Canadian airlines are ranked below average in a new North American airline satisfaction study. The study, released Wednesday by American global market research firm J.D. Power, ranked Air Canada second to last among five airlines included in the “traditional carrier ranking,” while Alaska Airlines was ranked first. WestJet, meanwhile, …

A senior officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), who could not control his temper went berserk again at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, destroying airlines property, because his flight was delayed. Knowing the implication of his shameful act he presented himself for arrest Abelnews gathered that on May …