Glasgow has been chosen to host a second daily nonstop Emirates flight to and from the airline’s Dubai base. The carrier officially announced the launch of the new flight on Tuesday, much to the dismay of Edinburgh passengers and the airport’s management, which had been trying to secure the route for months. Reports said that [...]

About 150 Qantas pilots are currently on unpaid leave amid cost-cutting efforts, the carrier announced on Tuesday. Australia’s flag carrier said that the news comes as a result of schedule consolidations that it says are necessary in order to recoup ballooning losses from its international division, which amount to around AUD $200 million (£132 million) [...]

Emirates Airlines is to introduce in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity on its fleet of Airbus superjumbos. The system, called OnAir, will let passengers stay connected across the carrier’s network, by allowing them to access the internet. The service will also connect to the airline’s in-flight entertainment. Initially OnAir will be installed on 11 of the 19 A380s [...]

Melbourne Emirates passengers will soon be able to travel on the A380 superjumbo aircraft to Dubai without a connection. The UAE-based airline announced this week that starting in October of 2012 that it would be commissioning the Airbus A380 on one of its daily flights between Auckland and Dubai with a stopover in Melbourne, offering [...]

Indonesian carrier Lion Air has placed an order for 230 737s with planemaker Boeing. The deal is the largest ever for the US manufacturer and is worth £14 billion. Included in the deal is an option to place orders for a further 150 of the short-haul jets. The announcement comes on the back of an [...]

The Dubai Air Show got underway this weekend with massive new order from Emirates for new Boeing aircraft. The state-backed UAE carrier announced the deal on Sunday for 50 Boeing 777 wide-body jets. The order is the largest ever for the American plane-maker and is reportedly worth some $18 billion (£11 billion). Industry experts had [...]

UAE-based carrier Emirates said this week that it would continue its growth efforts in spite of a big slump in profit figures. Thursday saw the state-run airline announce a 76 per cent drop in mid-year profits, which officials said was due to the rising cost of jet fuel and fluctuations in currency exchange rates. But [...]

Demand for seats on Dubai-based carrier Emirates has not dropped despite slowing economies worldwide, carrier officials reported this week. The news came via the company’s president Tim Clark, who said to reporters from Reuters at Hamburg airport that there hadn’t yet been any drop in passenger demand and that the airline was keeping its ‘fingers [...]

Thursday saw Dubai premier, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, approve city’s $7.8 billion proposal to expand local airports. Dubai International Airport is currently equipped to handle some 60 million passengers annually and, with the new plan, the facilities will be updated to handle more than 90 million before 2019 in a bid to make [...]

Improvements in security have promoted more international airlines to commence services to and from Iraq. The news comes following two decades of few commercial flights in and out of the troubled Middle Eastern nation due to security concerns and UN-imposed ‘no fly zone’ restrictions following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But now carriers are seeing [...]