Air France-KLM, the biggest airline company in Europe, has agreed to pay an US$87 million fine in a settlement for civil damages related to price-fixing in their cargo division. This comes after other carriers, including Cathay Pacific, Korean
It's been almost a year since Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, and investigators say that they have the first concrete clues as to where the plane's black
British Airways' cabin crew just held a 3-day strike over the weekend, and now they are getting ready for their second wave of industrial action starting on Saturday for 4 days. However, it looks as though
On Thursday, a judge ruled that Air France would have to pay more than $1 million (2 million reais) in compensation to the family of a passenger who died when an aircraft crashed last year, which was
A trial over the Air France Concorde crash that occurred on July 25, 2000 started on Tuesday. Continental Airlines and 5 men are being held responsible for the incident that killed 113 people nearly 10 years
A new survey has revealed that over three-quarters of people believe that obese passengers should be charged a ‘fat tax’, according to a travel comparison website, as last week Air France implemented a new fee for larger passengers who are forced to purchase a second seat to accommodate their size. The
The black box flight recorder of an Ethiopian Airlines jet, which slammed into the Mediterranean Sea just moments after taking off from Beirut’s International Airport on Monday has been found, according to a spokesperson for the airline. The airline said that the black box will be recovered after the location is
An inquiry into the crash of an Air France Airbus A330 with 228 passengers on board has called for better standards to air speed equipment, which said high altitudes cause it to ice up. An interim report into the crash which happened on the 1st of June on a flight from
A technical error on an Airbus A380 superjumbo has forced Air France to ground the aircraft in New York, making it the second technical fault reported since the jet began flying the route last month. According to a spokeswoman for the airline, the Air France flight from New York to Paris
A new study has revealed that airline passengers could be exposed to radiation levels equivalent to that of 400 chest x-rays, and the risk could be increased by aircraft flying near or through lightning storms. According to the study in an forthcoming edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research, it is
An Air France Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliner, is due to depart across the Atlantic today in spite of production and delivery delays still plaguing the aircraft manufacturer. The flight is scheduled to depart from Paris shortly before noon, with 537 passengers on board, and is due to arrive
Europe’s largest airline, Air France-KLM, has said that it entered a wider than expected second-quarter loss as it continued o fight with lower demand for air travel, particularly for premium class passengers and the burden of its fuel hedges. In the three months leading up to September 30th, the airline posted
British Airways and Spanish national carrier Iberia have agreed to merge, following 16 months of talk and speculation in recent weeks that the merger was imminent. The merger of the two airlines, which collectively carried 62 million passengers last financial year, is expected to join forces officially by the end of