MANILA, Philippines – Flag carrier Philippine Airlines Inc. (PAL) is contemplating on putting up a new international airport near Manila as it undertakes a massive re-fleeting program that involves the acquisition of 100 aircraft within the next few years. In a press conference after the company’s stockholders’ meeting yesterday at the Century Park Hotel, PAL [...]

(Reuters) – Lufthansa passengers face widespread flight disruption from Friday after cabin crew representatives said they would start a series of strikes over pay and cost-cutting measures at Germany’s largest airline. The UFO union, which represents around two thirds of Lufthansa’s 19,000 cabin crew, would not say on Thursday which locations would be targeted or [...]

DUBAI: An Emirates flight from Dubai to Manila was forced to make an emergency landing in Vietnam after a Filipina delivered a baby in the aircraft toilet, XPRESS has learnt. Pilots landed the Boeing 777 (EK332) at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport after mid-day on August 22 to offload the Filipina mother, [...]

TOKYO —Japan Airlines said Thursday its relisting on Tokyo’s stock market could raise as much as 663 billion yen ($8.4 billion)—a sum that would make it the second-biggest share sale globally this year after Facebook’s IPO. It is nearly double the amount of public money spent to keep it afloat during a massive restructuring and [...]

United Airlines Flight attendant Ron Akana, 83, worked his last United Airline Flight from Denver to Kauai over the weekend. It ends his 63 year career with United Airlines and will land him in the Guinness World Records book. “I wasn’t expecting this much attention,” he said Tuesday. On his final flight to Kauai, the [...]

Alert Alec Baldwin. It may one day be OK to use a personal electronic device when your plane takes off. The Federal Aviation Administration is putting together a group to study mobile electronic device use by passengers. It will be looking at what gadgets passengers can safely use while aboard and when. But cellphone calls [...]

Another major computer glitch hit United Airlines reservation system and website Tuesday afternoon, grounding planes for more than two hours and causing long lines and delayed flights. The glitch was another in a long string of technology problems that began when it merged computer systems with Continental’s in March. United said its IT department is [...]

HONG KONG – China Southern Airlines Ltd. has posted an 85 per cent drop in first-half profit as the global economy slowed, jet fuel prices rose and competition among Chinese carriers intensified. The airline, China’s biggest by passenger numbers, said late Monday that profit fell to 424 million yuan ($67 million), or 0.04 yuan per [...]

A Canadian senator’s wife appeared in court on the couple’s one-year wedding anniversary Monday after spending a long weekend in jail for threatening to down an aircraft. Maygan Sensenberger, 23, was arrested late Thursday for allegedly threatening passengers, swearing and arguing with her much older husband, Senator Rod Zimmer, 69, during an Air Canada flight.