Boeing strike ends
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
US plane maker Boeing’s US West Coast factory workers have accepted the company's offer to end the seven-week strike that halted most of its jet production.
Lewis-Smith to leave BESydney
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Australia's Business Events Sydney (BESydney) ceo Lyn Lewis-Smith is stepping down in July 2025.
ATSG sold to investment firm for US$3.1bn
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
New York-based private equity firm Stonepeak is to buy Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), a lessor of mid-size cargo jets that also provides flying and other services, for US$3.1 billion and will take the company private.
1,253 major Australian companies used Covid losses to avoid tax
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Australia's Qantas and Virgin Australia were among 1,253 large companies there that were due to pay no federal income tax in 2022-23 due to carried-over Covid-19 losses, the ATO (tax office) says.
Nauru Air's Australia-North Pacific Connector’ route continues
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Nauru Airlines has secured a new Pacific Flights Program agreement with the Australian government, extending targeted support for an additional year until 31 October 2025 for the airline's ‘Australia-North Pacific Connector’ route, which runs from Brisbane through Nauru, Tarawa, Majuro, and Pohnpei to Palau.
Nunes now coo at Chapman Freeborn
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Bernardo Nunes has been appointed chief operating officer at air charter specialist Chapman Freeborn group including Magma Aviation, Intradco Global and the Arcus Air Group, working to strengthen cultural, strategic, and operational leadership at all levels of the company.
GBTA releases first sustainability Challenge results
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
The GBTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), has released findings from its Sustainability Acceleration Challenge, a benchmarking initiative to evaluate the current state of business travel programs and the actions being taken by organisations to decarbonise them.
Ethiopian 'first to fly A350-1000 in Africa'
- BTN News
- Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Africa's Ethiopian Airlines is set to receive its first A350-1000 passenger aircraft this week.
It will be the first Airbus customer to fly the A350-1000 in Africa.
SIA announces S$1.1bn fleet retrofit
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says it is investing S$1.1 billion to install new long-haul cabin products across 41 Airbus A350-900 long-haul and ultra-long-range (ULR) aircraft.
Boeing's striking staff to decide on new pay offer
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Production of Boeing aircraft could restart 'soon', if 30,000 or so International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) members vote (on Monday November 4 in the US) to accept the company's latest pay and conditions offer.
Australian political focus firmly on aviation
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 05 November 2024
While much of November's early news focuses on whether politicians 'follow the rules' and seek out economic ways to travel, the Australian coalition plans to use Senate estimates to press bureaucrats on whether prime minister Anthony Albanese was at least partially responsible for the decision to block additional Qatar Airways flights.
Ikea opens London restaurant
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Ikea has opened its first UK standalone restaurant on King Street in Hammersmith, London, next door to its west London city store.
Airbus set to take over Spirit in NI
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Europe-based aviation firm Airbus says it expects its takeover of part of the Spirit AeroSystems operation in Belfast, Northern Ireland (NI) to be completed by the end of December.
