Profits Emirates plunge 69 percent
Emirates recorded its weakest year in 2018-19 in eight years, when announcing a Group profit of AED 2.316bln on May 9. This is -44 percent down on the previous year and almost at the same level as in 2011-12 (AED…
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Air France-KLM’s lost opportunity of 2018
Like a year ago, Air France-KLM must have asked itself the question: what if? What if Air France hadn’t lost €335mln on social unrest and strikes that never seemed to end? The effect has been clearly visible in the 2018…
Austrian expands fleet and concentrates on Vienna
Lufthansa Group member Austrian Airlines is to restructure its operations and make Vienna Schwechat Airport its central hub. The airline will also grow the continental fleet while studying plans to renew the long-haul fleet, Austrian announced on January 17 during…
Editorial: You can get real-time data from Mars, but not from a 777
NASA sent a spacecraft to Mars in 2003 with a rover vehicle to explore the surface of the planet. The Mars rover called Spirit regularly talks to NASA providing real-time data: “Communications with Earth are in X-band via the high…
American Switches Orders for A350-800 to A350-900
American Airlines announced that it is switching its orders (previously US Airways) for the 276 seat A350-800 to the larger 315 seat A350 -900 model. It is no secret that Airbus has been working its customer base to trade up…