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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the airline is facing $500 million (€461m) in costs related to a global tech outage this month that disrupted emergency services, communications and thousands of businesses. Speaking on CNBC, Bastian said Wednesday that the monetary amount represents lost revenue as well as “the tens of millions of dollars per day in compensation and hotels” for the five-day period. A week ago, CrowdStrike blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off the global tech outage that grounded f...
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Shares of Airbus tumbled 9.5% on Tuesday after Europe's biggest plane maker made an unscheduled announcement to cut its outlook for 2024. The group expects to deliver 770 commercial aircraft this year, compared with the previously projected 880. Airbus has moved the target of producing 75 A320 family aircraft per month from 2026 to 2027. Additionally, it has decided to record a charge of around €0.9 billion for the first half of 2024 due to risks associated with certain telecommunications, navigation, and observation programmes. It has also reduced the forecast of free cash flow to €3.5 billio...
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There could be a risk to sleeping passengers’ heart health if they consume alcohol on a long-haul flight, researchers have warned. In a new study published in the journal Thorax, a monthly peer-reviewed publication by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), German researchers found that drinking alcohol while on a flight could decrease blood oxygen levels and increase the heart rate during sleep. They analysed the oxygen levels in the blood of 48 healthy participants aged 18 to 40 who were randomly split into two groups. One group spent two nights in a sleep laboratory, while the other was put in a...
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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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