Tag: Airlines

The United States aviation industry has shed one quarter of its workforce over the past ten years, with the largest airlines hardest hit.

One in every four jobs in the airline industry disappeared in the ten years ending December 31st, according to statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation (BOT). As a result airlines employed 557,674 full-time and part-time workers at the end of 2009; a figure down more than 170,000 from the end of 1999.

All ninety passengers on board a jet that crashed into the Mediterranean are believed to have died. The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, which was bound for Addis Ababa, crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut airport, with witnesses saying they saw a ball of fire.

Police have ruled out terrorism and said it was probably weather-related, with heavy rain and lightning reported in the area.

The airlines chief executive Girma Wake said there was no word of any survivors.

In response to growing demand, Pegasus Airlines is launching new direct flights from the UK to the Turkish holiday destinations of Antalya, Bodrum and Dalaman, flying variously from London Gatwick, London Stansted, Manchester and Birmingham. All direct flights are available to book from 18 January on www.flypgs.com and to celebrate the new flights Pegasus is releasing 4,999 seats priced at £49.99 one-way, including taxes and charges.