Aviation

As part of a previously disclosed strategy to reduce its global workforce by 10%, the US aviation giant Boeing issued its first redundancy notifications on Monday. According to a statement issued Monday, Boeing plans to eliminate...

Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram must remain open four days a week, according to a regulation released today by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB). During his visit to the Chattogram airport today, CAAB...

Hours before the midnight deadline to disclose the agreement to European regulators, Rome announced Monday evening that the Italian government and Lufthansa had reached an agreement to sell the German airline a stake in flag carrier...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today inaugurated a special lounge for the country’s migrant workers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) here. “Our migrant workers are nation builders. In the July-August mass uprising, they played a...

Irish budget airline Ryanair reported falling net profit for the second quarter on Monday following a drop in ticket prices. Chief executive Michael O’Leary warned that Ryanair’s full-year results “will be subject to avoiding adverse developments”,...

Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest airline and a member of the Star Alliance, is set to officially enter the Bangladeshi market with the launch of its inaugural flight on the new Addis Ababa-Dhaka-Addis Ababa route this Sunday....

Air Astra, Bangladesh’s newest airline, has achieved a significant milestone by becoming a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) within two years of launching commercial operations. This recognition underscores the airline’s commitment to ensuring...

Boeing reported a whopping $6.2 billion quarterly loss on Wednesday as a nearly six-week labor strike weighed on its commercial plane division and costly problems dragged down its defense and space business. The embattled aviation giant,...

Shares of Qantas Airways hit an all-time high on Wednesday after Jefferies analysts hiked their price target on Australia’s flag carrier, on the back of low fuel costs and expectations of a dividend payment. Qantas stock...

A Boeing 767 chartered by Delta was forced to make an emergency stop on Saturday as it was taking off from Dakar for New York, Senegal’s air transport ministry announced. “The plane, in its take-off phase,...