Category Archives: Inefficiency

Frankfurt: airport on his knees due to bad weather

More than 200 flights at Frankfurt Airport have been canceled today due to the snow and cold . Frankfurt is the most important airport in Germany and the third in Europe .

Last Sunday canceled flights were 445.

Airports in Milan: you return to normal

After well 20 hours of snowfall the situation in the Milan airports (Malpensa and Linate) and’ back to normal. For the SEA, management companies and airports, "Gli aeroporti di Milano di Linate e Malpensa sono sempre stati operativi grazie alla task-force antineve di 300 men between Linate and Malpensa and 200 means ".

There were inconvenience but these were still normal because of excessive snowfall of these days. Milan Malpensa recorded content only delays for the operations of de-icing and de-snowing.

Airlines : cuts for British Airways

After Iberia, Spanish airline which announced a massive restructuring plan which provides for the dismissal of 4500 employees, also British Airways last 4 December 2012 announced that it plans to cut 400 basic flight attendants based at Heathrow Airport.

“We are offering the possibility of a voluntary redundancy to some older employees between flight attendants, to address an imbalance in the number of cabin crew. We started a consultation period 90 days with the British union Unite about these aspects”, said to “Management Today” a spokesman for the air carrier.

Ciampino: died tourist during embarkation

ciampinoA tourist Spanish 25 years died this morning after being sedated at Ciampino airport.

The boy would have forced a passage control and you would be directed to an aircraft in the Ryanair departure for Bari and were carried embarkation.

Once on the stairs, not having the boarding pass, was clinging to them in strong agitation and it is there that the doctors in the emergency room of the airport have administered the sedative.

According to what has been learned, in the pocket of the passenger agents would find hours of drugs seized.

Flames of an A380 Emirates: that has happened?

New grattacampo for Airbus. An Emirates Airlines A380 della, party and directed by Sidney in Dubai 380 passengers on board, was forced to go back on Sunday because of a fire engine.

The event occurred during the rising phase before reaching the cruising altitude, when there is a problem with one of its four engines. For the airline has not however been a fire. Nevertheless Emirates immediately began an investigation to determine the causes of this accident, with the participation of experts from Airbus also.

Currently 18 airlines use the Airbus A380 for a total of 262 aircraft that ply the skies daily.

 

Blue Panorama: another airline in crisis?

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After WindJet another airline is at risk of closure. Blue Panorama has requested admission to the composition procedure in continuity , according to the model of the U.S. 'Chapter 11 ′: an instrument introduced by Decree Development , that enables businesses to consolidate its financial and capital structure .

ENAC then suspended license and has granted a provisional , announcing that it will conduct a more thorough check of the operational management , economic and financial company .

During this reorganization Blue Panorama will continue with normal operations and , addition to consolidating traditional links , will be triggered new international services : is Blue Panorama Airlines and Blu-Express will continue to operate their respective flight schedules , honoring tickets and reservations as usual , and to continue the industrial partnerships with carriers , tour operator and travel agent partners .