European ULCC Ryanair has threatened closures in Spain and Italy should union talks fail to yield an agreement. On Monday, controversial CEO Michael O’Leary told investors that the carrier was “looking at base closures in Spain where, for the moment, the unions have not yet agreed to the pay cuts we need”. While the airline
British Airways, easyJet, TUI, and Ryanair have taken the British government to task over a decision to reimpose a 14-day quarantine against all passengers returning from Spain – shortly after overturning that requirement earlier this month. The move comes after the Spanish cities of Barcelona, Zaragoza and Madrid all recorded a surge in new infections
The revelation comes a fortnight after Iranian authorities agreed to turn the flight's black boxes over to international investigators.
Qatar Airways has doubled down on a promise to sue the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, after its home state was handed a win at the ICJ last week. Four separate international investment arbitrations will be levelled against the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Arab
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777 cargo plane caught fire while loading cargo at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday. The airline said that the cause of the incident is currently under investigation, adding that none of the crew or ground staff involved were harmed. The 777, registered ET-ARH, was set to operate a scheduled cargo
Taiwanese lawmakers have signed off on a bid to rename the national carrier, China Airlines (CAL), citing confusion among states receiving much-needed medical equipment from the island nation. While the state-owned airline’s branding has been a long-standing point of contention for many of Taiwan’s 23 million residents, local media reported that freighter flights delivering PPE
