Brazil's beleaguered airline VASP has cut half its routes and laid off 40% of its flightcrews in an effort to avert a growing crisis. Cash-hungry because the government airport operator Infraero will no longer extend credit for landing fees, VASP has slashed fares on the popular Rio-São Paulo shuttle. A São Paulo hotel is the latest creditor to call for the airline's liquidation.
Source: Airline Business
Flight-recorder information indicates no evidence of unauthorised interference with the operation of a Swiftair Boeing 737-400 freighter before it crashed on approach to Vilnius last month. The aircraft came down north of the airport on 25 November, while attempting to land on runway 19 after arriving from Leipzig. Lithuania’s transport ...
Norwegian investigators have initiated an inquiry after a Boeing 737-800 overran the runway at the coastal Molde airport during landing. The aircraft, arriving from Oslo as DY430 on 19 December, came to a halt partially off runway 25, which is 2,220m in length. Norwegian safety investigation authority SHK says the ...
Malaysia’s government has provisionally agreed to permit a new search effort intended to locate the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER which disappeared over the Indian Ocean a decade ago. Contact with the aircraft and its crew, operating flight MH370, was lost over the As the aircraft was operating the MH370 service ...
