The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will lead to a distortion of competition, higher ticket prices for Dutch consumers and be financially damaging to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) and KLM, a senior politician has warned.
United Airlines’ weekend migration to the Hewlett Packard SHARES system used by Continental, its merger partner, got mixed reviews: As Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said, it was “a success on the technology level but less of a success on the customer-experience front.” In the final major step in the integration of the two carriers, United successfully moved its reservations, inventory control and departure control systems off the Apollo platform, where they had resided for more than 40 years, and onto SHARES.
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Last year was the safest in history to fly commercially, IATA reported, although some developing regions lag the low accident rates achieved in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will lead to a distortion of competition, higher ticket prices for Dutch consumers and be financially damaging to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) and KLM, a senior politician has warned.
Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Assn. (ALTA) has named Dulce Carrillo-Kuti as director-communications and media relations. Carrillo-Kuti joins ALTA from Avon Products and The Clorox Co. corporate communications. OLT Express named Joachim Klein as its new MD. Klein is former chairman of Eurowings.
News from Travel Technology Update: United Airlines’ weekend migration to the Hewlett Packard SHARES system used by Continental, its merger partner, got mixed reviews: As Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said, it was “a success on the technology level but less of a success on the customer-experience front.”
Iberia (IB) is facing a further 24 days of industrial action by its pilots represented by the Spanish airline pilots union SEPLA to protest the launch of Iberia Express, the carrier’s new subsidiary for short- and medium-haul flights.
Iberia (IB) is facing a further 24 days of industrial action by its pilots represented by the Spanish airline pilots union SEPLA to protest the launch of Iberia Express, the carrier’s new subsidiary for short- and medium-haul flights.
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft is now offering wheels and brakes maintenance support for new operators of the BAe146/Avro RJ in cooperation with Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems. StandardAero signed a service agreement with Air New Zealand for turboprop engine maintenance repair and overhaul work covering three of their regional airlines, Eagle Airways, Air Nelson and Mount Cook. The contract expands a prior agreement to include Air Nelson and Mount Cook Airlines.
UTair (UT) has signed a codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines (TK). The agreement gives UT access to TK’s 129 destinations including domestic flights starting at Istanbul Ataturk (IST).
FlyDubai opened a new state-of-the-art training center in Dubai Wednesday. The facility, approved by the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), is the only certified Boeing 737 facility in the United Arab Emirates.
Qantas (QF) said it has begun to implement, and in some areas accelerate, its previously announced five-year plan to remain competitive during the “ongoing reshaping of global finances, the painful economic restructuring in Europe … the rebalancing of global economic weight to Asia … and a profound transition in the Australian economy.”
