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SINGAPORE (AFP) – Singapore Airlines’ decision to launch a long-haul budget carrier is a risky but necessary gamble as it comes under growing pressure at both ends of the market, aviation analysts said.
Gulf carriers Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways have each established themselves as serious players in the global aviation game. As the Middle East’s airline industry suffers under the weight of soaring fuel prices and regional instability, how are the big three staying out in front? (AMEinfo.com)
Workers at Turkish Engine Center (TEC), a company based near Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport, have reached an agreement on pay and conditions on the very first day of indefinite strike action.
In a move which took many market watchers by surprise, Singapore Airlines (SIA) yesterday announced that it is starting up a wholly-owned long/medium-haul budget carrier. (The Business Times – Singapore)
(SYDNEY) International pilots with Australia’s Qantas yesterday prepared to vote on whether to strike, in what would be the first industrial action by the carrier’s long-haul crew in 45 years. (The Business Times – Singapore / AFP)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Gulfstream International Airlines’ flight crewmembers, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters APA Local 1224, today announced they have agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement with Gulfstream International Airlines. (Yahoo News)
BANGKOK—The board of Thai Airways International PCL Friday approved in principle a plan to set up a new regional budget airline to serve domestic and regional routes, after its plan to establish a low-cost carrier joint venture with Singapore’s Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd. ran into regulatory hurdles (Wall Street Journal-USA).
The latest ash cloud incident is proving difficult to predict, according to experts and authorities in the UK and abroad (ABTN-UK).