Kingfisher Airlines - The Good Times have taken to the skies!
May 2008- Kingfisher Airlines, India’s favourite airline commenced operations with a brand new fleet of aircraft on May 9, 2005. Widely acclaimed as India’s most premium private airline, Kingfisher Airlines started with just four flights daily and today, it offers over 252 flights daily connecting 38 key Indian business and leisure destinations and has won an impressive line-up of prestigious international awards from Aviation Experts, Aviation Business Research Analysts and Travel and Tourism Writers of international repute...(read more)
Redevelopment of the Gold Coast Airport terminal sees fly-in invasion
May 2008- The Gold Coast is beginning to see the results of long term planning by Gold Coast Airport, the previous Federal Government and Gold Coast Tourism...(read more)
Airbus to Flight Test Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan Engine
21 April 2008 - Airbus and Pratt & Whitney will partner on flight testing the Geared Turbofan engine using an Airbus-owned A340 flying test bed. The flight testing will provide first-hand experience with the performance of the Geared Turbofan engine, which targets double-digit improvements in fuel burn, environmental emissions, engine noise and operating costs. The Airbus testing will begin in the fourth quarter of this year and will follow Pratt & Whitney's own ground and flight test program. Pratt & Whitney is a division of United Technologies Corp...(read more)
Cebu Pacific, the Philippines' Leading Low-fare Airline, Chooses Navitaire's Hosted Reservation and Revenue Management Services
16 April 2008 - Cebu Pacific (CEB), the leading low fare airline in the Philippines, has converted to Navitaire's New Skies® hosted reservation services and SkyPrice® revenue management system. Terms of the contract were not disclosed...(read more)
ADAC welcomes Jet Airways to Abu Dhabi
7 April 2008- Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) Director of Marketing and Communications, Mohammed Al Bulooki, today welcomed the impending arrival of India's largest private airways company - Jet Airways - to Abu Dhabi, with the airline's first services to the UAE scheduled to come through the capital from 23 April 2008...(read more)
Cockpit4u "Training and Recruitment Outsourcing on demand" ensures cost savings and optimum flexibility for airlines
4 April 2008- Due to tough competition in the industry, the pressure is growing on airlines to develop new sources of income and simultaneously reduce risks and costs. This will present flight operations with new challenges in the future...(read more)
Jeppesen airport moving map to improve runway safety by reducing incursion risk
24 March 2008- Jeppesen was recently granted FAA approval for its Airport Moving Map application for Class 2 EFB devices, and is the first and only company to have received approval. Jeppesen Airport Moving Map uses a detailed database to dynamically render maps of the airport surface, and through the use of GPS technology, show pilots their position ("own-ship") on the airport surface. The result is much improved positional awareness among flight crews, which is a critical safety factor for reducing runway incursions during ground operations at busy commercial airports with complex runway and taxiway layouts...(read more)
IBM solution powers DIAL's quest towards modernization
25 February 2008- IBM today announced the completion of its solution implementation at Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd (DIAL), the joint venture company working towards modernization and restructuring of the Delhi Airport. The SAP implementation went live on February 1, 2008 within a span of 8 months after being given the mandate. DIAL also became the first operational Indian airport to be run on SAP...(read more)
Mumbai's CSIA to become first airport in India to implement self-service kiosk technology
8 February 2008- Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd. (MIAL) and SITA today signed an agreement which will aid in the on-going transformation of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA), Mumbai, into one of the world's most modern airports capable of operating both CUSS (Common Use Self Service) kiosks and CUTE (Comon Use Terminal Equipment) check-in systems...(read more)
ATR registers Record Year of Orders with 113 new Aircraft
23 January 2008- On the occasion of the ATR annual press conference, which took place today in Paris, Stéphane Mayer, ATR CEO, announced orders for 113 new ATR aircraft in 2007, the record sales for a single year since the beginning of the programme. This outstanding commercial success is coupled with a 2007 turnover of some US $ 1.1 billion dollars, a growth of 56 % compared to 2006 (US $ 700 million)...(read more)
Cologne Bonn Airport closes the year 2007 with top results
17 January 2008- 2007 was again a record year for Cologne Bonn Airport - its fifth in succession. Last year saw exactly 10.47 million passengers starting or landing in Cologne/Bonn, and with this, the Airport hit the magical mark of 10 million passengers in one year for the first time in its history. This is a growth of 6 percent compared to the previous year. Despite the departure of DHL and Lufthansa Cargo in October, cargo volume increased by 3 percent to 719,000 tonnes... (read more)
