SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Asiana Airlines Inc. South Korea’s second-biggest full-service carrier, said Thursday that it has signed a 10-year deal with Lufthansa Technik AG on component maintenance for its Boeing 777 fleet. The deal covers nine aircraft in Asiana’s Boeing 777-200ER fleet and component repairs will take place at Lufthansa Technik’s workshops [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been revealed that among the 12 cabin crew members who were on board the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed at the San Francisco Airport, eight have filed lawsuits for compensation against the airline and the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. In July 2013, a Boeing 777 jet operated by the South [...]
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq:ENT), a worldwide leading provider of content, connectivity and digital media solutions to airlines, today announced that it has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval to install its Ku-band satellite connectivity system on Boeing 777 aircraft. Beginning in January 2015, airlines can equip their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean government will ban Asiana Airlines from flying to San Francisco International Airport for 45 days as a punishment for causing a runway crash in July last year that killed three. On November 14, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said its administrative deposition deliberation committee decided to ground [...]