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While banks are still grappling with Vijay Mallya in court to get their money back, but the fact is over 3,000 employees of the defunct carrier Kingfisher Airlines still haven’t got their salaries. Going by the numbers, 900 employees are still, on paper, employed with the airline and about 2000 …

LONDON— Deutsche Lufthansa AG on Thursday said its earnings improvement will slow this year despite a strong tailwind from lower fuel costs, signaling the continued challenges the airline faces in restoring competitiveness. Even with an anticipated €1 billion ($1.13 billion) drop in its fuel bill this year, Lufthansa is forecasting …

HYDERABAD, India – Qatar Airways marked its return to the India Aviation International Exhibition and Conference with the display of its A350 new-generation aircraft for medium- to long-haul operations. Making its first public appearance in India, the ultra-modern aircraft grabbed attention from visitors and VIPs with its custom-designed interiors and …

A former provider of the Anglesey to Cardiff air route is set to go into liquidation, BBC Wales has learned. A meeting of LinksAir’s creditors is due to be held on 1 April. The Civil Aviation Authority revoked the airline’s safety licence in October 2015 and the firm contracted other …

Flight attendants who work for Qatar Airways will no longer risk losing their jobs if they decide to get married or pregnant. The International Labour Organisation, the labor agency at the United Nations, concluded a yearlong investigation in June, finding that the airline’s policies required workers to notify the company …

A budget carrier in Asia has pulled its controversial advertisements featuring women’s rear ends to promote discounted flights launched during International Women’s Day. Firefly, a low cost subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines, ran the ads in local newspapers and online in the run up to the March 8 day holiday that …

The first ever all-female flight deck crew for Royal Brunei Airlines has operated a plane from Brunei to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Although it was a milestone for the airline, the pilot crew touched down in a country where women are still not allowed to drive a car. To mark …

President Muhammad Buhari has said the establishment of a new national airline was not currently on the Federal Government’s list of priorities. Rather, Buhari said his administration’s main area of focus now was reducing the level of poverty in the country. The President said these at an interactive meeting with …

Business travel on private and charter jets appears resilient despite the economic slowdown currently being experienced in Nigeria. According to BusinessDay findings, passenger traffic for business travel has continued to show steady growth compared to domestic airlines that have lost about 40 percent of their passenger traffic. “Businessmen still prefer …

President John Dramani Mahama says government is working assiduously to get a new national airline established on a Public-Private-Partnership basis soon, after a successful prefeasibility study. “Government’s plan to set up a new national airline under a PPP arrangement to support the policy-objective of establishing Kotoka International Airport (KIA) as …