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Kabul-based Safi is the country's No. 2 airline after national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines.
Algeria's national airline Air Algerie is considering tie-ups...
Airbus said Bhutan's national airline Drukair has firmed up an order for an Airbus A319 with sharklet fuel-saving wingtip devices.
Loss-making Finnish flag carrier Finnair plans to hand over the operation of a third of its European routes to low-cost British airline Flybe to cut costs and help restore profitability.
The Japanese flag carrier is investing JPY¥478 billion yen (USD$6.1 billion) in new aircraft to revamp its fleet over five years.
National carrier Air New Zealand reported a 61 percent fall in first half profits as fuel prices pushed higher...
Rwanda's national carrier Rwandair plans to more than double its fleet in the next five years, and to list on the country's stock exchange once it turns profitable, a senior company executive said.
The Singapore flag carrier flies to Athens twice a week, rising to three times a week between early July and late September.
State-owned South African Airways (SAA) will increase prices on all European flights to offset the costs of the EU's Emission Trading Scheme, it said on Monday.
IAG will cut almost a quarter of Iberia's workforce and reduce capacity to save the loss-making Spanish flag carrier and restore group profitability.
State-owned carrier Sudan Airways, known for its delays, has lost out to new carriers offering better service.
Turkey's national carrier Turkish Airlines will pull out of a joint venture with Bosnia's flag carrier BH Airlines and transfer its stake to the government free of charge, a senior official of the Bosnian carrier said on Thursday.
The website of the UAE's other flag carrier, Emirates, says flights to Damascus remain operational.
Australian flag carrier Qantas is laying off another 167 staff from its engineering department, the latest step in the airline’s plan to cut 5,000 positions from its workforce within three years.
The Bahraini national carrier added that its restructuring strategy, launched in December 2012, caused it to overshoot its restructuring target by BD14.5 million ($38.4 million) in 2013.
This is the first direct purchase of Boeing aircraft for the Belarus flag carrier.
This deal marks the second time that BOC has worked with Chile’s flag carrier.
Slovenia-based Adria Airways and Croatia flag carrier Croatia Airlines have decided to freeze plans for privatization this summer.
The state-owned carrier is initiating a major transformation strategy to increase revenues, develop new revenue streams by June 2016 and improve efficiencies.
The two men masterminded Europe’s first merger between two flag carriers in 2004.
Air Greenland has joined the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), bringing the number of airlines in membership to 53. The flag carrier of Greenland is the third airline to join ERA this year.
The threat of a potentially lengthy strike hung over Iceland’s national airline, Icelandair, on Friday after the company’s mechanics announced plans for industrial action.
The Indian flag carrier was originally accepted as a future member of Star in 2007, but the airline was going through a merger process and financial issues.
Satar has served as president and CEO of the Indonesian flag carrier since March 2005, and during his nine-year tenure has presided over a significant reputational turnaround for Garuda.
Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus is facing possible industrial action by cabin crew staff in a dispute over rostering and duty hours—the latest in a series of labor clashes.
Israeli flag carrier El Al received its 50th aircraft, a Next-Generation 737-900ER.
The deal comes as Kazakhstan’s flag carrier prepares for future growth, following a 13.5% traffic increase in 2013.
Air Astana is a joint venture between Kazakhstan’s national wealth fund Samruk Kazyna and BAE Systems, with respective shares of 51% and 49%.
Lao Airlines, the national carrier of Laos, will add a new route to its 19-destination network across the landlocked Southeast Asian country.
Luxair is one of the smallest flag carriers in Europe.
Romanian flag-carrier Tarom is aiming to relaunch Bucharest Otopeni-Beijing services from Sept. 16, according to several local media reports.
The government of Serbia retains a 51% majority stake.
Korean flag carrier Korean Air has extended its codeshare agreement with LAN Peru.
SWISS, the national airline of Switzerland, has a fleet of A319s, A320s, A321s, A330s and A340s.
Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines has taken delivery of its first of 10 Boeing 777-300ERs.
Siwakiat has also committed to cutting more than 6,000 jobs at the flag carrier over the next four years.
The flag carrier of Turkmenistan operates scheduled flights on 15 routes in 11 European and Asian countries including Frankfurt, London, Moscow, Beijing and Istanbul.
The UK flag carrier said it is also working to find potential employment opportunities for bmi personnel facing redundancy with its industry partners, such as Rolls-Royce in the Midlands.
The Yemen national carrier said it was suspending flight operations “until further notice due to the prevalent unfavorable operational situation and restriction imposed on Yemen airspace.”
In May the airline reported a sharp rise in profits and revealed that it was making more money from each customer than it has done since it was privatised in 1987.
The investment is beginning to pay dividends with flag carrier TAAG Angola Airlines increasing capacity by nearly 40% in the past year.
Mr Albrecht has accepted that there are no sacred houses in the very competitive European market and Austrian Airlines is remaining Austria’s flag carrier only in name.
The flag carrier accounts for 46% of international capacity (seats) at Baku, according to Innovata data.
Biman is one of Asia’s smallest flag carriers, operating only 10 aircraft on a network of 22 destinations, including 19 international and three within Bangladesh.
Even though BoA now has a monopoly on domestic trunk routes, it is unlikely the government owned carrier will abuse its new dominant position.
As the national carrier of Bulgaria, Bulgaria Air is based at Sofia Airport and operates scheduled services, ad hoc charter services and business jet transportation.
The government of Cyprus is currently assessing the expressions of interest it has received in connection with its controlling stake in the national carrier Cyprus Airways.
Protective policies do little to help Addis Ababa’s aspirations to become a large hub, so its future remains inextricably linked to the flag carrier’s growth plans.
But most of all the flag carrier will need to get its financial situation under control.
The board of beleaguered carrier Caribbean Airlines, the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago, has reportedly undertaken an evaluation of the airline’s routes as its long-haul operation to London continues to underperform.
The country’s two state-owned airlines, Libyan Air and Afriqiyah Airlines, which both suffered extensive damage to aircraft, resumed operations late 2011 and are gradually reestablishing their pre-war networks as aircraft return to service.
The flag carrier hopes it can eventually improve yields across both cabins, leveraging the improvements in its product and new membership in oneworld.
Regional unrest in North Africa and the onslaught of LCC competition has taken its toll on Morocco’s national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM).
It has underwritten Oman Air’s development as a national carrier over the past five years, doling out for its fleet and personnel expansion.
Since the Oman Government took majority ownership in early 2007, the airline has lost a staggering OMR295 million (USD766.9 million).
...La Reunion’s national carrier, Air Austral, is planning to take a similar approach to some destinations in its long-haul network.
Flag carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines formally joined the SkyTeam alliance on 29-May-2012, becoming the alliance's 16th global member and first member from the Middle East.
The flag carrier is deeply mired in debt, bereft of a positive outlook.
Emirates once managed Sri Lankan as part of its 44% stake in Sri Lanka's flag carrier, but sold its stake back to Sri Lankan government after relations soured.
As a majority state-owned airline in North Africa, Tunisair has retained most of the flag carrier privileges that are cemented in the 1944 Chicago Convention, but those protectionist practices run counter to the present realities of passengers wanting choice and low fares.
While a relatively large country (both in land mass and population – it has about 45 million people), the Ukrainian market (like many other markets in Eastern Europe) cannot easily sustain two large flag carriers, particularly as low-cost competition continues to increase.
The government-owned flag carrier has been focusing in recent years on short-haul and medium-haul expansion using its A321 fleet.
Government-owned flag carrier Air Zimbabwe currently operates only two international routes although it has been trying for some time to resume more international services.
Flag carrier Cubana de Aviación is resuming direct flights to Brazil with a Havana-São Paulo route on July 10, the tourism ministry said in a press release.
{{cite news}}: |title= ไม่มีหรือว่างเปล่า (help)Belgian flag carrier Brussels Airlines has announced plans to resume service to North America from 1 June, with an Airbus A330-300 flying daily between Brussels and New York John F. Kennedy International airport.
The flag carrier had on 22 December disclosed that its board has approved the introduction of the 60 Boeing narrowbodies.
Colombia's flag carrier will compete directly with JetBlue Airways, which has operated the Orlando-Bogota pairing since 2009, and operates five weekly flights in the market.
German flag-carrier Lufthansa appears to have cancelled orders for three Airbus A380s.
For the Hong Kong flag carrier, retiring 747-400s are being replaced largely by 777-300ERs.
Livingstone will become the Kenyan flag carrier's second Zambian destination, alongside capital city Lusaka.
Libyan flag carrier Afriqiyah Airways unveiled its new livery at an event in the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel, Tripoli on 19 December.
How Air Mauritius fits into this scenario is not difficult to answer, says Sanjay. “We will maintain our course providing an excellent service and state-of-the-art comfort aboard our aircraft, and make a link between the hotel sector and the national airline.”
All carriers from Mozambique, including flag-carrier LAM, are being placed on the European Union's blacklist of airlines, in addition to a pair of Boeing 767s operating for Air Madagascar.
If sightings of the Ilyushin Il-18, a Cold War era Russian large turboprop that first flew in 1957 and had its heyday in the 1960s, are fairly scarce these days – with 11 examples in service – ticking off the one example flown by Air Koryo must rank high on any planespotter’s wishlist. North Korean travel agencies offer trips to enthusiasts to fly on aircraft belonging to the flag-carrier, described by one unkind journalist as the “world’s only one-star airline”.
The long-haul plans will put it in competition against flag carrier Philippine Airlines, although the full-service carrier does not fly directly to the Middle East or to Europe.
Polish flag-carrier LOT is preparing to send two Boeing 787s to Ethiopia for battery modification, as carriers begin resuming commercial services with the type.
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has agreed to take another 20 Sukhoi Superjet 100s, under a tentative agreement with the airframer.
The country’s flag carrier is Surinam Airways, a small airline with ambitions to carve out a profitable niche connecting this former Dutch colony with the world.
Air Namibia intends to further spread its wings by acquiring more modern planes and expanding its routes, in view of restoring its credibility as the country’s flagship air carrier.
The airline is owned by the Government of Pakistan (90.2%) and other shareholders (9.8%).
Bombardier also said Ivory Coast's national airline, Air Cote d'Ivoire, has agreed to buy two Q400 NextGen aircraft.
Suriname is also considering selling shares in telecommunications firm Telesur and Surinam Airways, which are state owned, and bank Hakrinbank, which is partly owned by the government.
The flag carrier of Lebanon, MEA becomes SkyTeam’s second Middle Eastern member, offering customers from the region access to an extensive global network.
Libya’s national carrier and state-owned Libyan Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330-200, a 259-seater plane that will be used on the carrier's longer-haul routes.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (ลิงก์)The investment is beginning to pay dividends with flag carrier TAAG Angola Airlines increasing capacity by nearly 40% in the past year.
Australian flag carrier Qantas is laying off another 167 staff from its engineering department, the latest step in the airline’s plan to cut 5,000 positions from its workforce within three years.
Mr Albrecht has accepted that there are no sacred houses in the very competitive European market and Austrian Airlines is remaining Austria’s flag carrier only in name.
The Bahraini national carrier added that its restructuring strategy, launched in December 2012, caused it to overshoot its restructuring target by BD14.5 million ($38.4 million) in 2013.
Biman is one of Asia’s smallest flag carriers, operating only 10 aircraft on a network of 22 destinations, including 19 international and three within Bangladesh.
This is the first direct purchase of Boeing aircraft for the Belarus flag carrier.
The flag carrier had on 22 December disclosed that its board has approved the introduction of the 60 Boeing narrowbodies.
Colombia's flag carrier will compete directly with JetBlue Airways, which has operated the Orlando-Bogota pairing since 2009, and operates five weekly flights in the market.
Slovenia-based Adria Airways and Croatia flag carrier Croatia Airlines have decided to freeze plans for privatization this summer.
The government of Cyprus is currently assessing the expressions of interest it has received in connection with its controlling stake in the national carrier Cyprus Airways.
The state-owned carrier is initiating a major transformation strategy to increase revenues, develop new revenue streams by June 2016 and improve efficiencies.
The two men masterminded Europe’s first merger between two flag carriers in 2004.
German flag-carrier Lufthansa appears to have cancelled orders for three Airbus A380s.
Air Greenland has joined the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), bringing the number of airlines in membership to 53. The flag carrier of Greenland is the third airline to join ERA this year.
The board of beleaguered carrier Caribbean Airlines, the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago, has reportedly undertaken an evaluation of the airline’s routes as its long-haul operation to London continues to underperform.
For the Hong Kong flag carrier, retiring 747-400s are being replaced largely by 777-300ERs.
The threat of a potentially lengthy strike hung over Iceland’s national airline, Icelandair, on Friday after the company’s mechanics announced plans for industrial action.
The Indian flag carrier was originally accepted as a future member of Star in 2007, but the airline was going through a merger process and financial issues.
Satar has served as president and CEO of the Indonesian flag carrier since March 2005, and during his nine-year tenure has presided over a significant reputational turnaround for Garuda.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (ลิงก์)Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus is facing possible industrial action by cabin crew staff in a dispute over rostering and duty hours—the latest in a series of labor clashes.
Israeli flag carrier El Al received its 50th aircraft, a Next-Generation 737-900ER.
Bombardier also said Ivory Coast's national airline, Air Cote d'Ivoire, has agreed to buy two Q400 NextGen aircraft.
The deal comes as Kazakhstan’s flag carrier prepares for future growth, following a 13.5% traffic increase in 2013.
Air Astana is a joint venture between Kazakhstan’s national wealth fund Samruk Kazyna and BAE Systems, with respective shares of 51% and 49%.
Lao Airlines, the national carrier of Laos, will add a new route to its 19-destination network across the landlocked Southeast Asian country.
Luxair is one of the smallest flag carriers in Europe.
The flag carrier hopes it can eventually improve yields across both cabins, leveraging the improvements in its product and new membership in oneworld.
If sightings of the Ilyushin Il-18, a Cold War era Russian large turboprop that first flew in 1957 and had its heyday in the 1960s, are fairly scarce these days – with 11 examples in service – ticking off the one example flown by Air Koryo must rank high on any planespotter’s wishlist. North Korean travel agencies offer trips to enthusiasts to fly on aircraft belonging to the flag-carrier, described by one unkind journalist as the “world’s only one-star airline”.
It has underwritten Oman Air’s development as a national carrier over the past five years, doling out for its fleet and personnel expansion.
The airline is owned by the Government of Pakistan (90.2%) and other shareholders (9.8%).
The long-haul plans will put it in competition against flag carrier Philippine Airlines, although the full-service carrier does not fly directly to the Middle East or to Europe.
Polish flag-carrier LOT is preparing to send two Boeing 787s to Ethiopia for battery modification, as carriers begin resuming commercial services with the type.
Romanian flag-carrier Tarom is aiming to relaunch Bucharest Otopeni-Beijing services from Sept. 16, according to several local media reports.
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has agreed to take another 20 Sukhoi Superjet 100s, under a tentative agreement with the airframer.
Rwanda's national carrier Rwandair plans to more than double its fleet in the next five years, and to list on the country's stock exchange once it turns profitable, a senior company executive said.
The government of Serbia retains a 51% majority stake.
Korean flag carrier Korean Air has extended its codeshare agreement with LAN Peru.
Emirates once managed Sri Lankan as part of its 44% stake in Sri Lanka's flag carrier, but sold its stake back to Sri Lankan government after relations soured.
SWISS, the national airline of Switzerland, has a fleet of A319s, A320s, A321s, A330s and A340s.
Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines has taken delivery of its first of 10 Boeing 777-300ERs.
Siwakiat has also committed to cutting more than 6,000 jobs at the flag carrier over the next four years.
Turkey's national carrier Turkish Airlines will pull out of a joint venture with Bosnia's flag carrier BH Airlines and transfer its stake to the government free of charge, a senior official of the Bosnian carrier said on Thursday.
The flag carrier of Turkmenistan operates scheduled flights on 15 routes in 11 European and Asian countries including Frankfurt, London, Moscow, Beijing and Istanbul.
The government-owned flag carrier has been focusing in recent years on short-haul and medium-haul expansion using its A321 fleet.
The Yemen national carrier said it was suspending flight operations “until further notice due to the prevalent unfavorable operational situation and restriction imposed on Yemen airspace.”
Government-owned flag carrier Air Zimbabwe currently operates only two international routes although it has been trying for some time to resume more international services.
Kabul-based Safi is the country's No. 2 airline after national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines.
Algeria's national airline Air Algerie is considering tie-ups...
The flag carrier accounts for 46% of international capacity (seats) at Baku, according to Innovata data.
Belgian flag carrier Brussels Airlines has announced plans to resume service to North America from 1 June, with an Airbus A330-300 flying daily between Brussels and New York John F. Kennedy International airport.
Airbus said Bhutan's national airline Drukair has firmed up an order for an Airbus A319 with sharklet fuel-saving wingtip devices.
Even though BoA now has a monopoly on domestic trunk routes, it is unlikely the government owned carrier will abuse its new dominant position.
As the national carrier of Bulgaria, Bulgaria Air is based at Sofia Airport and operates scheduled services, ad hoc charter services and business jet transportation.
Flag carrier Cubana de Aviación is resuming direct flights to Brazil with a Havana-São Paulo route on July 10, the tourism ministry said in a press release.
Protective policies do little to help Addis Ababa’s aspirations to become a large hub, so its future remains inextricably linked to the flag carrier’s growth plans.
Loss-making Finnish flag carrier Finnair plans to hand over the operation of a third of its European routes to low-cost British airline Flybe to cut costs and help restore profitability.
But most of all the flag carrier will need to get its financial situation under control.
The Japanese flag carrier is investing JPY¥478 billion yen (USD$6.1 billion) in new aircraft to revamp its fleet over five years.
Livingstone will become the Kenyan flag carrier's second Zambian destination, alongside capital city Lusaka.
The flag carrier of Lebanon, MEA becomes SkyTeam’s second Middle Eastern member, offering customers from the region access to an extensive global network.
Libyan flag carrier Afriqiyah Airways unveiled its new livery at an event in the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel, Tripoli on 19 December.
The country’s two state-owned airlines, Libyan Air and Afriqiyah Airlines, which both suffered extensive damage to aircraft, resumed operations late 2011 and are gradually reestablishing their pre-war networks as aircraft return to service.
Libya’s national carrier and state-owned Libyan Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330-200, a 259-seater plane that will be used on the carrier's longer-haul routes.
How Air Mauritius fits into this scenario is not difficult to answer, says Sanjay. “We will maintain our course providing an excellent service and state-of-the-art comfort aboard our aircraft, and make a link between the hotel sector and the national airline.”
Regional unrest in North Africa and the onslaught of LCC competition has taken its toll on Morocco’s national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM).
All carriers from Mozambique, including flag-carrier LAM, are being placed on the European Union's blacklist of airlines, in addition to a pair of Boeing 767s operating for Air Madagascar.
Air Namibia intends to further spread its wings by acquiring more modern planes and expanding its routes, in view of restoring its credibility as the country’s flagship air carrier.
National carrier Air New Zealand reported a 61 percent fall in first half profits as fuel prices pushed higher...
Since the Oman Government took majority ownership in early 2007, the airline has lost a staggering OMR295 million (USD766.9 million).
...La Reunion’s national carrier, Air Austral, is planning to take a similar approach to some destinations in its long-haul network.
Flag carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines formally joined the SkyTeam alliance on 29-May-2012, becoming the alliance's 16th global member and first member from the Middle East.
The Singapore flag carrier flies to Athens twice a week, rising to three times a week between early July and late September.
The flag carrier is deeply mired in debt, bereft of a positive outlook.
State-owned South African Airways (SAA) will increase prices on all European flights to offset the costs of the EU's Emission Trading Scheme, it said on Monday.
IAG will cut almost a quarter of Iberia's workforce and reduce capacity to save the loss-making Spanish flag carrier and restore group profitability.
State-owned carrier Sudan Airways, known for its delays, has lost out to new carriers offering better service.
The country’s flag carrier is Surinam Airways, a small airline with ambitions to carve out a profitable niche connecting this former Dutch colony with the world.
Suriname is also considering selling shares in telecommunications firm Telesur and Surinam Airways, which are state owned, and bank Hakrinbank, which is partly owned by the government.
As a majority state-owned airline in North Africa, Tunisair has retained most of the flag carrier privileges that are cemented in the 1944 Chicago Convention, but those protectionist practices run counter to the present realities of passengers wanting choice and low fares.
While a relatively large country (both in land mass and population – it has about 45 million people), the Ukrainian market (like many other markets in Eastern Europe) cannot easily sustain two large flag carriers, particularly as low-cost competition continues to increase.
The website of the UAE's other flag carrier, Emirates, says flights to Damascus remain operational.
The UK flag carrier said it is also working to find potential employment opportunities for bmi personnel facing redundancy with its industry partners, such as Rolls-Royce in the Midlands.
In May the airline reported a sharp rise in profits and revealed that it was making more money from each customer than it has done since it was privatised in 1987.