Overseas Aviation

There is debate going on right now...will the ICAO move out of Montreal?

Not sure .. as of now .. for PH ..

... South Korea continues to be the country's largest visitor market with 1,031,155 arrivals, accounting for 24.13 percent share of the total visitor volume

You have to remember that Jeju Air, Jin Air and Air Busan have flights to Philippines and more often Koreans tend to use chartered flights ..

We don't have much info on 5Js plans for ICN as of now

London's Heathrow airport closed after emergency landing

British Airways said on Friday that a A319 plane bound for Oslo from London's Heathrow airport was forced to make an emergency landing after a fault in one of the engines.

Now they are saying that the mechanics had forgotten to properly screw on a part of the engine before departure, leading to the accident during take off. Therefore, this is not a fault of Airbus, but British Airways.

5J Overrun ..

Ah Turbulence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-dinner.html

The speed with which the crew had cleaned up the mess shows how efficient SQ crew is ..

Today - United B787 flight UA125 aborted their take-off due to some reason . Aircraft Reg : N26906.

Great! All the 787 needs now is more technical problems. Hopefully it is just something routine and minor. It would be really bad for Boeing if there was another set of widespread problems with this aircraft. In the mean time, it seems that all of the other operators of the 787 are doing well. Air India has begun flying their 787s to Heathrow, and Ethiopian plans to operates theirs to Seoul Incheon. Let's hope this is just a one time incident.

Hi Guys, Please share the update about Paris Air Show 2013 ? It will be appreciated if you share the Air-Show Pictures, Updates including Aircraft orders by international airlines.

Please share the SriLankan Airlines aircraft orders on Sri Lanka Aviation thread - http://www.airsrilanka.org/forum/sho...ull=1#post6070

EVA AIR has joined Star Alliance

Taiwan’s EVA Air (BR) has been officially welcomed as the 28th member of Star Alliance. With EVA Air, Star Alliance now offers more than 21,900 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries around the world.

Jet Airways (9W) starts Code share with Air France / KLM

Jet Airways begins codeshare with Air France-KLM
Shekhar Niyogi, Kolkata, June 20, 2013

THE codeshare agreement between Jet Airways and Air France-KLM came into effect on yesterday.

Under the agreement, Air France has placed its AF code on Jet’s domestic flights from Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai to Chennai, from Kolkata and Hyderabad to both Mumbai and Bengaluru; KLM offers KL-coded flights from New Delhi to Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Furthermore, members of Jet Airways and Air France-KLM’s frequent flier programmes will be able to accumulate miles on each other’s flights.

Air France-KLM currently operates 27 flights every week between Europe and India.

Sudheer Raghavan, chief commercial officer, Jet Airways, said: “We are very happy with the addition of our relationship with Air France and KLM. The codeshare agreements will allow our guests enhanced connectivity to the global networks of Air France and KLM. The European gateways will benefit our guests flying to key destinations across India.”

Seema Ahmed, general manager, Kolkata-based Gainwell Travel & Leisure, said the codeshare between Jet Airways and the two European carriers would offer customers “good value” for longhaul flights as well as better value in terms of fares and convenient connections to Europe and North America.

The codeshare agreement comes on the heels of Etihad Airways’ purchase of 24 per cent in Jet Airways (TTG Asia e-Daily, December 4, 2013), as Jet looks to establish hubs in Abu Dhabi, Paris and Amsterdam to carve a slice of international skies for itself.

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Privately, I am a bit miffed to see the increased publicity for MRIA, all over the internet and travel print media, when logic says, you need to sell the concept to airlines, not end users .. yah, the end users may ask flights to go to MRIA, but after all, isn't the airlines who have to see the value of a new airport ?

Well, Advertising $ at work I guess

G-ZBJB. First B787-8 delivered to British Airways. Here are the pictures I taken from the plane spotting at LHR on 29.June.2013. Does anybody know when this bird will be taking off for the revenue flight ?

BAs first A380 will fly into LHR next Friday, July 5th..