The value to Qantas of a code-share alliance with Middle Eastern airline Emirates has been estimated at up to $90 million a year in pre-tax earnings. The estimate by Macquarie Equities analysts comes as the Emirates chief executive, Tim Clark, visits Sydney this week, fuelling further speculation that the Dubai-based airline is on the verge [...]

  New Delhi: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is expected to be inducted in Air India’s fleet shortly, is “fundamentally the right plane” for the airline’s turnaround, a senior Boeing official said on Tuesday. Three of these sophisticated aircraft, made out of composite carbon material, are ready at the Boeing facility in South Carolina, US, [...]

FRANKFURT – Lufthansa cabin crew will strike throughout Germany on Friday for a full 24 hours, upping the stakes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and cost Germany’s biggest airline tens of millions of euros. Cabin crews walked out at Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports yesterday, forcing [...]

A California family says they were kicked off a cross-country American Airlines flight because their 16-year-old son has Down syndrome. Joan and Robert Vanderhorst, of Bakersfield, Calif., said they intend to sue American over the “humiliating” incident at Newark Airport, in which they were told their special needs son posed a “flight risk.” “It’s defamation,” [...]