Left to Right - Jimmy Eichelgruen, Director – Sales, AMEI; Bobby Bryan, Commercial Director, East and West Africa; Bob Cortelyou, Senior Vice President, Network Planning; Shane Spyak, Staff Vice President, Sales, EMEAI all of Delta Air Lines and Olufemi Adefope, Managing Director, Skylogistics (Delta GSA in Nigeria) cutting the cake during the media event of Delta Air Lines 10th year anniversary service to Nigeria. Aviation

Delta Marks 10 Years of Service to Nigeria

Delta Air Lines on Monday marked its 10th anniversary of nonstop service between Lagos and Atlanta. Launched on December 4, 2007, Delta remains the only, U.S. airline to fly nonstop between Nigeria and the United States and has carried more than 1.1 million passengers between the two nations over the past decade. “It’s an honour to […]

American Holds Talks With Airbus on Fate of A350 Deal

American Airlines Group Inc. is stepping up efforts to decide if an Airbus SE A350 order still makes sense for its fleet, forcing the European planemaker to try to defend another U.S. sale of its marquee wide-body jet. The two companies have restarted talks about a twice-delayed deal for 22 of the A350-900 planes, a person familiar with […]

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Birmingham Loses Only US Scheduled Flight as Airlines Trim Loss-making Routes

….As United cuts transatlantic links while British Airways abandons western Norway Poor ticket sales have triggered the closure of key international air links this winter. Birmingham’s only American connection is to be grounded, while British Airways will stop flying from Heathrow to western Norway’s two biggest cities. United Airlines says its last-ever flight on the […]

Delta Orders 30 Additional A321s

Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.)-based Delta Air Lines has placed an incremental order for 30 firm A321ceo aircraft. This order follows three previous Delta orders for the Current Engine Option version of the largest Airbus A320 Family member. The airline took delivery of its first A321 in March of last year. Delta now has ordered a total […]