Uruguay to close bankrupt flagship carrier – govt source (Reuters.com)
* No new private funding found for company
* Govt eyes new airline with state participation
July 6, 2012
ITF launches campaign for Turkish Airlines workers
The ITF is launching a new campaign for the reinstatement of 305 sacked Turkish Airlines workers and the withdrawal of a swingeing new legal amendment that deprives aviation workers of the right to strike.
July 9, 2012
July 6, 2012
DON’T MESS WITH GROUND HANDLING JOBS!
ETF demonstrates for a social European Ground Handling Regulation Today, 5 July 2012, more than 500 ground handling workers from across Europe demonstrate in front of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg to raise their concerns on the proposed EU Regulation on Ground Handling services at the airports. The EP, the voice of the European […]
July 5, 2012
Budget carrier Jetstar takes off
The first flight of Jetstar Japan Co., a budget airline funded by Japan Airlines Co., took off Tuesday from Narita International Airport bound for New Chitose Airport near Sapporo. With the launch, Jetstar became the second discount airline to serve domestic routes in Japan, following the Osaka Prefecture-based Peach Aviation Ltd., a budget carrier owned […]
July 4, 2012
Cathay ignores calls for low-cost airline
John Slosar, chief executive of Cathay Pacific Airways, has dismissed suggestions that the Hong Kong-based airline needs to launch a low-cost subsidiary to match its rivals. Mr Slosar said Cathay had not lost ground to rivals that had created budget airlines to survive a period of high fuel costs and declining freight and business travel. […]
Budget airlines bank on Indonesian boom
More than 8m Indonesians flew internationally last year, up 23 per cent on 2010, with 60m domestic air travel passengers, up 16 per cent on 2010. By 2016, the government is forecasting 15m international passengers and 120m domestic passengers. To tap this growth, airlines old and new are expanding in this nation of 240m people, […]
Unions demonstrate unity over airline merger
Workers from the LAN airline joined with their counterparts at Brazil’s TAM at Santiago airport in Chile last week to welcome the creation of a new, merged LATAM enterprise.
In a public event that sprung from a recent ITF LATAM organising meeting, tr…
July 3, 2012
ETF Press Invitation: Ground Handling demonstration in Strasbourg on 5 July 2012 – 11.30 am
“DON’T MESS WITH GROUND HANDLING JOBS!” Ground handling workers’ demonstration on EU Ground Handling Regulation Members of the press are kindly invited to attend this event of the European Transport Workers’ Federation When? 5 July 2012, 11.30 – 14:30 Where? At the entrance of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (F) Rue Lucien Febvre A […]
June 28, 2012