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China’s HNA Group has made an offer to buy Gategroup, a Swiss-based airline catering firm for 1.4bn Swiss francs ($1.5bn; £1bn). Conglomerate HNA Group owns Hainan Airlines and is led by billionaire Chen Feng. HNA has offered 53 Swiss francs a share for the Swiss firm, an offer which has …

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has, for the first time, hired women to fly its planes. Two of them joined last August during the last intake of cadet pilots. Their training – in Singapore and Australia – will take between two and three years, after which they will be rostered for commercial …

Airspace Managers across the nation’s airports under the aegis of Airspace Managers’ Forum has thrown their weight behind the current management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), led by the Acting Managing Director of NAMA, Engr. Emma Anasi in its effort to sustain the gains of air safety in …

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned that the European economy may lose about one million jobs and EUR245 billion in 2035, if the inefficiencies observed in the management of its airspace are not quickly and properly addressed. In a report, IATA stated that Europe is well served by …

Virgin Australia is boosting its international network and frequent flyer program through a codeshare agreement and frequent flyer partnership with Alitalia. Initially, Virgin will place its VA airline code on the Italian flag carrier’s flights from Abu Dhabi to Rome and Milan (Malpensa), which are operated by Boeing 777 and …

Muslim flight crew don the hijab while non-Muslim crew are forbidden from wearing revealing clothing on board the airline, which launched last December. In-flight meals are completely halal and alcohol consumption is strictly banned. In recent weeks, however, the carrier had drawn increasing criticism from passengers and the government due …

Africa World Airlines (AWA) after an intensive and rigorous process, received the International Operational Safety Audit Programme (IOSA) certificate from IATA. AWA has subsequently been listed on the IOSA register. AWA’s certificate is valid from May 1, 2015 to May 1, 2017. “It’s a safety and security audit programme run by …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arraigned the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, and six others for alleged N5.5bn fraud. Abdulsalam and his co-accused persons were arraigned on 20 counts before Justice Babs Kuewumi of a Federal High Court in Lagos. Those charged …

When a Swallow aircraft took off from Pasco, Washington, on an airmail route bound for Boise, Idaho, on April 6, 1926, it marked the beginning of 90 years of aviation firsts for United Airlines. Since then, United has connected more than 4 billion people to important business meetings, family events, …

Videos of the dramatic moments a crane dropped an Air India plane onto the ground when trying to move it have been shared on social media. The Airbus A-320, which had been parked up since 2007, was being moved from Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad in southern India on Sunday morning when …