Archive for 'Airline News'

Ryanair about to launch its first social media campaign

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Ryanair has announced to launch its first online community of loyal customers to step into the world of social world. As said by spokesman Stephen McNamara, the company has not gone into social media earlier because of the volume of customers it was dealing with which in turn would result into a fruitless social media [...]

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British Airways under heavy strike

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British Airways started a 3 day strike to protest against the planned changes to pay and other conditionals that made thousands of passengers suffer. BA and the Unite Union had a fierce disagreement regarding this strike’s effect, but 12,000 cabin crew of the airlines finally staged the final day of industrial action. The BA staff [...]

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American Airlines has joined the fight against Tarmac rule

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New York- American Airlines have joined the group of carriers who are protesting government’s new strategy according to which passengers cannot be held on the tarmac for an unlimited time. It has also filed a complaint to the Department of Transportation which states that it will cost the company millions in fine due to the [...]

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Ryanair forgets 63 schoolboys

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63 students from the St. Jacques de Compostela school in Dax (Landes) will never forget their school trip to London and especially their return!

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Turkish Airlines to introduce Next-Generation Boeing Airplanes

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Turkish Airlines have recently placed an order for 20 Next-Generation 737 airplanes with 10 737-800s and 10 737-900ER airplanes. The order placed at Boeing is evaluated as $1.6 billion. Currently Turkish Airlines have 66 Boeing airplanes which include 58 next-generation 737s.

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Updated – Air France files complaint against Ryanair

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According to an article published today in the French newspaper Le Figaro, Air France is file a complaint against Ryanair at the European Commission for receiving hundreds of millions of euros in illegal subsidies.

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JAL – World’s most on-time airline

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Japanese are famous for their fast trains that are precisely on-time and, as of recently, their airline services. According to records from FlightStats, Japan’s JAL and ANA were named the world’s most on-time airline companies.

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