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Around 20% of January 19 flights out of Paris-Orly have been cancelled due to strikes protesting French government proposals to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64 and reform pensions. The airport said there were "many delays and cancellations" and advised that...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a website allowing the airline industry to share APIs, or application programming interfaces, code that enables two software programmes to communicate. The new IATA facility was developed by Rapid, a...
Stansted Airport in London recorded "strong passenger performance" in December 2022 as 1.85 million people travelled through the hub. The number more than doubled the traffic for the same month in 2021 and came to 93% of December 2019., the airport reported on January...
Switzerland flag carrier SWISS said on January 17 that it has transferred its Swiss AviationSoftware subsidiary to Lufthansa Technik. The hand-off took place "at the end of 2022", said SWISS, which like Lufthansa Technik is part of Lufthansa Group. The move aims at...
Ireland-based Cloudcards has agreed a multiyear software deal with Canadian lessor Avmax. The tie-up will see Avmax use Cloudcards’ Microsoft Azure-based asset management and document management software systems to "integrate its lease, asset, technical and financial...
The Drone Delivery Group, which describes itself as "the UK’s largest group of more than 400 drone industry experts and leading authority on the technology", has called on the British government to "act now" on commercialisation or risk falling behind rival countries....
Challenge Airlines is planning to launch freighter flights connecting Belgium to Turkiye towards the end of January 2023. The freighter will carry a mix of Türkiye’s main export products, including garments, fabrics, and automotive parts, from international customers....
Flights have resumed out of Manchester Airport after snowfall led to the closing of runways for around two hours. In a notification published at around 9am local time on January 19, the airport said passengers should contact airlines for information on departing...
Magma Aviation, an air cargo management business, has transported over 1000kg of flip flops "on a pro bono basis" for Sea Sense, a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO). Magma helped Sea Sense with moving the flip flops from Fuzhou in China to the UK, where...
H3 Dynamics and Hylium Industries have paired up to boost prospects for zero emission hydrogen-electric flight. The French and South Korean companies said they are "combining the strengths of Hylium’s liquid hydrogen storage and liquification solutions, and H3...
Pandemic-legacy disruptions across aviation have spurred a growing demand for aircraft parts, according to Locatory.com, an Avia Solutions Group-owned supplier. “The aircraft part[s] market is steadily growing,” said chief executive Toma Matutye. The increased demand...
Dublin Airport reported 28.1 million passengers in 2022, a number it said was a 231% increase on 2021 and a recovery to 85% of 2019. "Passenger levels in the final three months of 2022 totalling 7.1 million – the equivalent to 96% of numbers in the same period of...