The Luton-based carrier, which is already in a running battle with founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, will on Thursday announce that it is opening two new bases in Nice and Toulouse – a pre-emptive strike against Air France.
October 6, 2011
Workers at Qantas and at Philippine Airlines are stepping up their struggle against outsourcing. Baggage handlers in the Transport Workers Union struck on Tuesday of this week, to fight against the company’s plans to shed 1000 jobs, leading to cancellations and delays throughout the Qantas network. Qantas aircraft engineers covered by the Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association have announced they are stepping up strikes and bans from October 10. The key issue for both unions is guarantees of security of employment, in the face of Qantas management’s attempts to outsource jobs on reduced wages and conditions.
September 25, 2011
(Toronto) The CAW has won the right to maintain the defined benefit pension plan for new hires at Air Canada, an arbitration ruling released Friday says. In the 62 page ruling, federal arbitrator Kevin Burkett rejected Air Canada’s demand to put new hires into a defined contribution pension plan with an inferior, more precarious benefit. Instead […]
September 23, 2011
The latest major change in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry on the Iberian Peninsula was the merger between Iberia Maintenance and British Airways’ technical arm, BA Engineering, when their parent carriers formed International Airlines Group (IAG) at the end of last year.
(SYDNEY) Australian carrier Qantas will cancel 28 flights and delay a further 27 due to a ground staff strike this week that would affect more than 6,000 passengers.
September 20, 2011
Janine Hadley, 27, a Ryanair passenger who was on a flight from Faro, Portugal to Manchester was allegedly threatened with arrest when she refused to vacate an overbooked flight on Sunday.
September 16, 2011
Chinese carriers earned an aggregate profit of CNY6.59 billion ($1.03 billion) in August, up 27.4% over a net income of CNY5.17 billion in the year-ago month, crediting domestic market growth.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The sagging fortunes of national carrier Air India can be checked only by cancelling the merger with Indian Airlines as well as all bilateral operational deals, according to George Abraham, general secretary of Aviation Industry Employees Guild, the carrier’s largest union.
September 12, 2011
