Flair loses four planes in 'commercial dispute'
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Canada's Flair Airlines says four of its leased planes were seized on the weekend in what the airline said was a 'commercial dispute' with a New York-based hedge fund.
Australian authorities in drugs haul
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Over a nine-month period since May 2022, Australia Post and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) say they have intercepted more than half a ton of illicit drugs sent by mail to the Australian state of Queensland.
Qantas Regional Grants are back
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Australia's Qantas has reopened its Regional Grants program, which provides A$10 million over five years to support Australia-based not-for-profit community groups and projects that benefit the country's regional areas.
AirAsia puts 10 million seats on sale
- BTN News
- Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Malaysia-based AirAsia has launched a sale with 10 million discounted seats in Asia and Australasia to destinations world wide.
Southwest playing music during boarding/deplaning
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
USA-based Southwest has been seeking ways to fix 'choke points' in the boarding/deplaning process and for both, the jetway tends to be slow.
Virgin Australia launches Velocity bonuses
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
Virgin Australia is offering 2,000 bonus Velocity points per flight (4,000 per return ticket purchase) for members flying to the six international destinations it flies to using its B737 metal.
United welcomes first flight academy graduates
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
USA-based United Airlines says the first graduates from its Aviate (flight) Academy comprised 80 per cent women or minorities.
Spain extends free rail ticket program
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
Spanish authorities are extending a free rail ticket scheme offered in conjunction with train operator Renfe until December this year.
Verra to scrap rainforest offsets program
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
Verra, the carbon credit certifier used by Disney, Shell and other big corporations for climate claims, is to scrap its rainforest offsets program after investigators found it was flawed.
UK's HS2 goes off the rails
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
Because costs have soared by billions of pounds, the UK's proposed and expensive high speed rail project HS2 to connect London with the north will be delayed by years and major road building schemes will be mothballed, government ministers say.
AA pilots' union says strike is 'possible'
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
American Airlines (AA) pilots will vote on possible strike action, their union the Allied Pilots Association (APA) says, despite AA ceo Robert Isom saying their pay will rise to match pilots at rival Delta Air Lines.
Air Japan releases in-flight plans
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
All Nippon Airways' (ANA's) Air Japan, a new medium-haul low-cost international airline, has released some aircraft details ahead of its launch in February 2024.
Virgin Australia in talks with banks?
- BTN News
- Monday, 13 March 2023
Reuters reports Virgin Australia is in talks with at least two banks - Goldman Sachs and UBS - for a loan of up to A$450 million to pay its private equity owner Bain Capital ahead of the airline's stock exchange re-listing (planned for later this year).
