Iberia’s cabin crew are threatening strike action over plans to launch a new carrier this year that would pay crew lower wages. The new airline would employ some 350 staff and operate 14 aircraft, and is viewed as an attempt by the Spanish flag carrier to sidestep union resistance to cost cuts.
Javier Santos, spokesman for [...]
Spanish builder Ferrovial, which owns British airports operator BAA, said Friday it signed a contract to build a new terminal at London´s Heathrow airport together with Britain´s Laing O´Rourke for 812 million pounds (900 million euros).
The new terminal will replace Terminal 2 and the Queens building which date from the 1950s and it will have [...]
Spanish flag-carrier Iberia has reported its first full-year loss in over a decade, as demand in both the premium international and domestic markets fell sharply.
The airline recorded a net loss of €273m (£242 million) for the financial year 2009, compared with profits of €32m (£28 million) in 2008. Revenues at the airline fell 19 per [...]
BAA, the airport operator that owns Heathrow and Stansted, fell deeper into the red today after it was forced to take a £665 million charge on the sale of Gatwick and the cost of servicing its pension deficit.
The company, which is owned by Ferrovial, of Spain, reported a pre-tax loss of £822 million for the [...]
Aviation enjoyed its second safest year on record during 2009, according to statistics from the International Air Travel Association (IATA), despite several high profile accidents.
According to IATA data, the 2009 global accident rate – measured in hull losses per million flights of Western-built jet aircraft – was 0.71.
That is equal to one accident for every [...]
Spanish air traffic controllers may disrupt travel over the Easter holiday following a breakdown in talks about plans to slash their 334,000-euro ($468,000) average annual salary by about 40 percent.
Controllers will stage a work to rule in April, forcing flights to be delayed or cancelled, if a deal is not reached with employer Aeropuertos Espanoles [...]
Emergency services sources say they received a phone alert from the Almería Airport control tower at 8,30pm on Thursday night.
Flares were spotted from the area the copter is thought to have gone done after radio and radar control was lost.
Four people where travelling in the ‘Helimer’ helicopter, and El Mundo reports one of [...]
The collapse of Globespan will be examined by a High Court judge on Tuesday.
The administrators of the Edinburgh-based travel firm have raised a legal action against the company that dealt with it´s online ticket sales.
Globespan collapsed in December, leaving an estimated 3,400 holidaymakers stranded in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Egypt.
However, the firm later claimed it [...]