January 2010

JAL goes down, who is next

January 12, 2010

Image by Never Was An Arrow II via Flickr Today Japan’s banks approved JAL bankruptcy, which means very much to the Japan. How many people will be sacked, how much money will be wasted from the Japan’s wallet etc.. All questions that will arise is going to be more and more negative. But if we [...]

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Improving Consumer Confidence Drives Growth in Passenger Volume

January 12, 2010

Image via Wikipedia 2009 has been one of the worst years for the airline industry. Most airlines throughout the world have been in the red, and only in the third quarter of 2009 were there visible beginnings of some passenger airlines returning to the profit zone. Air Cargo carriers have suffered further with reduction in [...]

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Cautious Optimism, Transportation business thinks

January 12, 2010

Transportation executives across the shipping world are taking a cautious view toward the prospects for economic recovery in 2010, with most businesses forecasting little substantial expansion until late in the year or even 2011, according to the special Annual Review & Outlook edition of The Journal of Commerce.   The special annual edition — including [...]

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Delays and who’s responsibility, Airline or Airport.

January 11, 2010

I have a will to understand the countries like Spain or Italy where the snow is a somewhat rare element to fight with but the delays and cancellations in northern countries like Canada, USA, Russia and Finland, for example, is a big no no because of the snow.

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Airbus emergency landing in Newark

January 11, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Shock for the 48 passengers of flight 634 of the United Airlines: In the landing approach to Newark Airport in New York stuck the landing gear on the right side. The Airbus A 319 landed anyway – with just two instead of three bogies. No one was injured in [...]

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Finnish Plane Makes Emergency Landing

January 11, 2010

Image via Wikipedia A Ryanair plane that departed from Tampere on Sunday was forced to make an emergency landing in Sweden. The pilot made the decision to land after noting a problem with the plane’s motor. The aircraft, which was heading for Frankfurt, Germany, landed at the Skavstan Airport near Nyköping, in southeast Sweden. The [...]

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Bird causes emergency landing in Russia

January 10, 2010

Image via Wikipedia A Swiss airline flight made an emergency landing just after takeoff in Saint Petersburg on Sunday when a bird was caught in one of its engines, but no one was injured, Russian news agencies said. The Airbus 319 was to travel to Zurich with 123 passengers and seven crew members, but turned [...]

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Helsinki-Vantaa Baggage Handlers Deny Deliberate Slowdown

January 9, 2010

Baggage handlers at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, who were recently outsourced by the airline Finnair, deny allegations of a deliberate slowdown. Shop Steward Pekka Kähönen says that claims that bags would have been deliberately placed on the wrong planes are provocative and without foundation. The Finnish News Agency reported on Saturday that anonymous airport personnel had said [...]

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