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Geneva-based PrivatAir has gone through a restructuring aimed at making it a leaner, but still profitable company ready to embark on expansion in the Middl

Lufthansa pilots continued negotiations with airline management at press time over what they claim amount to scope-clause violations by the German flag car

The Swiss government has approved Lugano Airport’s plan to install more visual aids, including a lead-in light row with strobe lamps for Runway 19.

In a hopeful sign, Pilatus said it will return to full work schedules by February 1.

EuroAirport, which serves the cities of Basel, Switzerland; Mulhouse, France; and Freiburg, Germany; is home to a considerable maintenance and completion i

Switzerland’s regional scheduled airlines seem relatively well prepared to face a passenger slump expected to last through next year.

Aviation will become greener in small steps rather than the giant leaps hoped
for in the recent past, but the aviation community is committed to redu

Charter operator FlyingGroup has opened new bases in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam and also in Luxembourg.

A man who has witnessed just about every step of business aviation’s development over the past four decades finally began a very well earned retirement ear

The organizers of the biennial Farnborough International Air Show announced several improvements for the next edition, scheduled to take place July 19 to 2

Ruag, the Swiss aerospace and defense group, announced a joint venture with List of Austria to offer customers a one-stop shop for simultaneous maintenance

Dassault Aviation unveiled a new interior for its Falcon 7X jet here at EBACE yesterday.

One year after the first major upgrade since its inception in the early 1990s, the Pilatus PC-12 NG remains the best seller in the pressurized single-engin

Jet Aviation Basel, one of Europe’s largest completion facilities, has to live with the long lead times unavoidable in its business, but they can be a bles

Earlier this year, AMAC Aerospace started operating from its new hangar at Euro Airport near Basel, Switzerland.

AMAC Aerospace inaugurated the main hangar of its new business aviation completions and maintenance operation at Switzerland’s EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-F

AMAC Aerospace officially opened for business in early February at the EuroAirport in Basel, Switzerland.

Most of the 125 pilots of the German regional airline Con-tact Air went on a limited strike today, disrupting parts of the Luf-thansa Regional European net

Grob Aerospace insolvency administrator Dr.

Lufthansa Technik, the MRO and completions arm of the German flag carrier, has taken over the maintenance shop of Swiss European Air Lines at Basel EuroAir

When the Italian government put ailing Alitalia up for sale last winter, Lufthansa was not interested.

An amateur video broadcast by the BBC shows a fierce fire burning near the main lan

The Austrian government has decided to sell its share of Austrian Airlines and has published advertisements in the financial press offering its 42.75-perce

Shanghai-based investment group D’Long in late June confirmed it has signed a contract for the rights to the suspended Fairchild Dornier 728 program, but a

Crossair founder Moritz Suter announced on July 17 that he plans to launch a new regional airline.

Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Airlines on Thursday took over Zurich-based Servair Private Charter for an undisclosed amount and said it will int

Aircraft and engine manufacturers participating in the Aviation and Environment Summit held in Geneva this spring pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emission

Switzerland is in the market for about 20 new fighters to progressively replace its remaining F-5 fleet.

When TAG Aviation took over Aeroleasing in Switzerland and Aviation Methods in California, and finally Wayfarer Aviation on the East Coast, all in 1998 and

Jet Aviation’s main strength is in Europe, where 11 major facilities generate 60 percent of its income, and the U.S., with four major facilities and 18 sup