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The ITF has officially launched a campaign backing a Turkish aviation union’s struggle to reverse a ban on the right to strike and to reinstate more than 300 dismissed workers.
The campaign, which was launched this week, will prompt unions from acros…
More than 500 aviation workers from across Europe gathered outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, to voice their concerns about a proposed European Union regulation on ground handling. It is believed that the proposal aims to further li…
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.
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]