In response to budget airline Ryanair’s announcement that it will be pulling out of Belfast City International from the 30th October 2010, Flybe, a Devon based airline has announced that it will be flying to three new locations in the UK from Belfast starting on the 31st October. These locations are Bristol, Liverpool, and the [...]
Airport Jobs
If all goes according to plan, ex airline pilot Richard Ashbrook could get it right to create 50 to 100 aviation jobs at the Clarkesville-Montgomery County Regional Airport. The initiative is something that he has thought about for many years and will focus the airport to handle more corporate aircraft and passengers. The old maintenance [...]
JFK International Airport will be getting a makeover in its Delta Airlines Terminals, it was announced by Delta Airlines and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday. They plan to tear down the old Pan American WorldPort and spend $1.2 Billion to make the carrier’s home at JFK more effective, efficient, [...]
At a time when airlines are still cutting back, Virgin America is planning to expand its fleet from 28 to 90 by the year 2016 allowing more airline jobs to be created. According to the announcement made on the 22nd July, the company has ordered 40 new Airbus A320 aircraft which are going to be [...]
In an effort to promote biofuels for use by aircraft, Portland International Airport has joined with the Northwest Aviation biofuels industry as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest Project. Other companies involved in the project are the Port of Portland, Seattle-based Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK), Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Spokane International [...]
Since the closure of hundreds of airports all over Europe due to the “ash cloud” from the volcano eruption in Iceland in March 2010, the aviation industry has taken a huge knock and lost billions in revenue. Luckily things seen to be back on track and airlines, as well as airports are recovering as air [...]
Aviation is one of the top inventions the world has ever seen, and with air travel, comes a great many new jobs that were once obsolete. Many of these are in demand nowadays as air travel as literally taken off. Security jobs in airports, air traffic controllers, pilots and engineers are all necessary in ensuring [...]
During March, Alaska Airlines, a subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group, reported that its load factor increased to 84.5 percent from 81.6 percent the year before. The load factor is the percentage of paying passengers occupying the available seats. They were also on time more often during the past year, jumping from 70.2 percent to [...]
With the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup just a few months away, South Africa has been upgrading all of its main airports in anticipation of the millions of tourists expected to arrive in June. The airports are completed or are due to be completed by the end of the month. With the upgrades, many jobs [...]
Things are picking up for many United States airlines as the low fuel costs helped them to profit this last quarter. Continental Airlines and Southwest Airlines were two of the major improvers in share prices with Southwest gaining by 2.8 percent in the afternoon trading on Thursday. The Chairman of Continental, Jeff Smisek, noted that [...]
