BMI Baby owner Lufthansa is reportedly in talks to sell the low-cost carrier to German turnaround firm Intro Aviation. The news came on Friday via Intro’s chief executive Peter Oncken, who said in an interview that his company had “expressed interest” and that the sale process was getting underway. He added that the company was [...]

International Airlines Group, the parent of British Airways and Iberia, has published a rise in traffic during December. Premium-class travel was up by 13.6 per cent up on the same month a year earlier and non-premium traffic rose by 12 per cent. Passenger load factor was also up to 77.6 per cent, a rise of [...]

The introduction of the European emissions trading scheme, which applies to all airlines flying to and from the EU, has resulted in two international airlines declaring that it has forced them to hike ticket prices. Although it is still to announce the details, Lufthansa has said it will be handing the additional cost of paying [...]

International Airlines Group has announced that it has reached a deal to acquire BMI from its German owners. IAG, the parent firm of British Airways and Iberia, said in an official statement released on Thursday that it had signed a £172.5 million deal and hoped the acquisition would be completed within the first three months [...]

The merger of Chile’s LAN, and Brazilian carrier TAM, has been given the go ahead by the Brazilian anti-trust regulators. The tie-up was first mooted in 2010 and the new airline is to be called LATAM. It will operate to 23 countries, and 115 different destinations. Together TAM and LAN carried 45 million passengers last [...]

Air France has said it should be able to double revenues in the Chinese market in around six years, if it can maintain current growth rates. The optimistic forecast came on Friday via newly appointed chief executive of Air France-KLM, Alexandre de Juniac. The company head said to reporters from a Chinese newspaper that growth [...]

Concerns about future links to Heathrow from Belfast City Airport have been aired by MPs after Owen Paterson, Secretary for State, admitted that he had been in talks with International Airlines Group CEO Willie Walsh. The company, which owns Iberia and British Airways, is looking to purchase beleaguered carrier BMI from Lufthansa. Mr Walsh said [...]

Formula One legend Niki Lauda has announced that he will handover complete control of his airline Niki to major shareholder, Air Berlin. The Austrian driver set the carrier up six years after he sold his previous venture to Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Lauda Air was Niki’s first foray into the business, and it was established [...]

BMI owner Lufthansa has said it has agreed to sell the airline to British Airways’ parent company IAG. Germany’s flag carrier and International Airlines Group said on Friday that details on the sale are not yet complete but said hoped a draft agreement would be signed within a few weeks and that the deal would [...]

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 [...]