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Iceland’s Play Airlines is fairly new on the aviation scene, but it’s already making an impression on the industry. Founded in 2021, it has become well known for allowing its crew to express themselves with tattoos, piercings, and whatever hair colour they feel like having. Each staff member can wear gender neutral uniforms and trainers, as opposed to tight outfits and high heels. Einar Örn Ólafsson was only installed as the CEO of Play in April, but that approach is something he’s sticking to. “We like to think of ourselves as a fun, progressive and playful airline and we encourage our crew t...
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Qantas Airways has agreed to pay 120 million Australian dollars (€74 million) in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) sued the Sydney-based airline in the Federal Court last year. They alleged that Qantas engaged in false, misleading or deceptive conduct by advertising tickets for more than 8,000 flights between May 2021 and July 2022 that had already been cancelled. Qantas agreed to settle the suit by paying a AU$100 million (€61 million) fine to the Australian government and a projected AU$20 ...
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The world’s top 10 cleanest airports have been announced - and only one hub in Europe features on the list. In fact, the ranking is almost exclusively made up of airports in Asia, with the exception of Zurich in Switzerland, which comes in tenth place. The research was undertaken by airline rating organisation Skytrax as part of its World Airport Awards. Here are the cleanest airports worldwide - and what qualified them for that accolade. Japan snags four out of the 10 top spots on Skytrax’s listTokyo’s Haneda Airport came in first place as the world's cleanest airport. Skytrax praised the cle...
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Have you ever dreamed about upgrading your economy flight to a seat in business class? While the switch may be out of reach for most of us, new research has found an upgrade is not always prohibitively expensive. Holidu, a leading provider of holiday rentals across Europe, analysed the price difference between economy and business class fares from over 30 of the world’s biggest airlines to find out whose premium experience is the best value for money. On average, they found that business class is 250 per cent more expensive than flying economy - but some airlines have markups as low as 88 per ...
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Heathrow Airport is set to face severe disruption as staff announce several walkouts. The London hub has confirmed there will be strikes at the end of April and for much of May. The Unite union has warned that planes will likely be "delayed, disrupted and grounded". The long weekend walkout is part of a slew of strikes to be held by different departments at the UK's biggest airport over the next few weeks. Border Force officers are set to strike from 29 April to 2 MayThe Public and Commercial Services trade union (PCS), which represents Border Force officials, says more than 300 of its members...
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Could human waste power the future of air travel? Wizz Air hopes so. The Hungarian airline says it’s reached a deal with a British company to work on producing sustainable jet fuel made from human waste. The biofuel company, Firefly Green Fuels, has developed a process which will convert waste from sewers into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The company says it hopes to begin supplying the lower carbon power source from around 2028 and has come to an agreement with Wizz Air’s UK-based wing to provide up to 525,000 tonnes of SAF over a 15 year period. How will human waste be transformed into s...
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Domestic flights will no longer be used to transport letters by Germany’s national postal carrier. The move from Deutsche Post reflects the declining significance of letter mail and allows it to improve its climate footprint. After 63 years, the last planes carrying letters between northern and southern Germany, operated by Lufthansa unit Eurowings and Tui Fly, flew overnight on 28 March on the Stuttgart-Berlin, Hannover-Munich and Hannover-Stuttgart routes. Letters between those destinations will now be transported by road, allowing the company to reduce transport-related carbon dioxide emiss...
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US President Joe Biden is proposing a huge increase in fuel taxes for private jets. It is being pitched as a fairness issue compared with airline passengers, who pay special taxes on every ticket. The proposal was included in a $109.3 billion (€100b) budget request for the US Department of Transportation, which was released on Monday. The fate of the proposal in Congress is unclear. Many of Biden's budget ideas will flounder in the Republican-controlled House. The largest business-aviation trade group came out against the targeted fuel-tax increase, saying private jets help companies succeed a...
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As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand, a passenger on Tuesday described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane's ceiling. At least 50 people were injured on Monday by what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” on the Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner later landed at Auckland Airport as scheduled and was due to continue on to Santiago, Chile. “The plane, unannounced, just dropp...
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