FTI Touristic collapses
- BTN News
- Monday, 10 June 2024
Under-a-cloud German travel combine FTI Touristik has collapsed, telling passengers: “All travel with a departure date up to and including Friday, 5 July 2024 is cancelled.”
Under-a-cloud German travel combine FTI Touristik has collapsed, telling passengers: “All travel with a departure date up to and including Friday, 5 July 2024 is cancelled.”
After more than a month of possible 'white knight' rescue scenarios, staff at Australian startup carrier Bonza have been told they face an unfortunate end game after hopes of finding a buyer for the embattled airline faded.
Australia's Jetstar is to launch a three-times-weekly non-stop service connecting its Brisbane base with Bangkok in Thailand on 13 December, operating three times per week using Jetstar’s 787-8 fleet.
Citing poor local economics, P&O Cruises Australia will close in March 2025 and its business will be integrated into its sister line, Carnival Cruise Line.
Carnival ceo Josh Weinstein said the move was due to the South Pacific’s “small population” and “significantly higher operating and regulatory costs”.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has renewed its Sabre contract covering Schedule Manager and Slot Manager (both are in Sabre’s Network Planning & Optimization suite).
British Airways will add twice-weekly Lapland flights from London Gatwick to Ivalo, Finland’s most northerly airport, from 03 December 2024.
US labour union the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) that represents American Airlines crew has rejected a 17 per cent wage hike.
Vietjet has operated its inaugural A330 flight between Hanoi in Vietnam and Melbourne, Victoria in Australia ahead of the launch of services to Sydney, New South Wales later this month.
Virgin Australia has launched B737 flights between Melbourne, Victoria and Uluru in the country's red centre in partnership with the Northern Territory government and Voyages Indigenous Tourism (which operates Ayers Rock Resort, Uluru).
Website 4 Bookings) (W4B) has launched a new AI automation tool for its web site.
Travellers are eager to fly and plan trips, but they remain cost conscious and, depending on the generation, less swayed by traditional airline loyalty programs, according to OAG’s latest survey, 'Beyond the Ticket: Winning Traveller Loyalty with Rewards and Ancillary Services'.
A month after the US Department of Transportation (DoT) told airlines they would have to pay refunds to passengers on significantly delayed flights, it says Lufthansa, South African Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airways will pay US$900 million due to refunding failures during the Covid pandemic.
Major airline customers including Australia's Qantas say Boeing will bounce back from the quality problems that have hit its management as well as production of some of the best-selling planes in history.
Under-a-cloud German travel combine FTI Touristik has collapsed, telling passengers: “All travel with a departure date up to and including Friday, 5 July 2024 is cancelled.”
After more than a month of possible 'white knight' rescue scenarios, staff at Australian startup carrier Bonza have been told they face an unfortunate end game after hopes of finding a buyer for the embattled airline faded.
Australia's Jetstar is to launch a three-times-weekly non-stop service connecting its Brisbane base with Bangkok in Thailand on 13 December, operating three times per week using Jetstar’s 787-8 fleet.
Citing poor local economics, P&O Cruises Australia will close in March 2025 and its business will be integrated into its sister line, Carnival Cruise Line.
Carnival ceo Josh Weinstein said the move was due to the South Pacific’s “small population” and “significantly higher operating and regulatory costs”.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has renewed its Sabre contract covering Schedule Manager and Slot Manager (both are in Sabre’s Network Planning & Optimization suite).
British Airways will add twice-weekly Lapland flights from London Gatwick to Ivalo, Finland’s most northerly airport, from 03 December 2024.
US labour union the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) that represents American Airlines crew has rejected a 17 per cent wage hike.
Vietjet has operated its inaugural A330 flight between Hanoi in Vietnam and Melbourne, Victoria in Australia ahead of the launch of services to Sydney, New South Wales later this month.
Virgin Australia has launched B737 flights between Melbourne, Victoria and Uluru in the country's red centre in partnership with the Northern Territory government and Voyages Indigenous Tourism (which operates Ayers Rock Resort, Uluru).
Website 4 Bookings) (W4B) has launched a new AI automation tool for its web site.
Travellers are eager to fly and plan trips, but they remain cost conscious and, depending on the generation, less swayed by traditional airline loyalty programs, according to OAG’s latest survey, 'Beyond the Ticket: Winning Traveller Loyalty with Rewards and Ancillary Services'.
A month after the US Department of Transportation (DoT) told airlines they would have to pay refunds to passengers on significantly delayed flights, it says Lufthansa, South African Airways and KLM Royal Dutch Airways will pay US$900 million due to refunding failures during the Covid pandemic.
Major airline customers including Australia's Qantas say Boeing will bounce back from the quality problems that have hit its management as well as production of some of the best-selling planes in history.