IFALPA Daily News – 23 May 2013

Dear Colleagues,
The IFALPA Daily News is now available online.
Here are today’s top headlines. To read more, click on the title:
Etihad Airways recruits 50 airberlin pilots
Etihad Airways commenced recruitment of more than 50 pilots from airberlin in April 2013.
Lufthansa, United, Air Canada win EU nod for revenue-sharing pact
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, United Airlines, Continental and Air Canada won approval from EU antitrust
regulators on Thursday for their transatlantic tie-up after agreeing to give up airport slots in
Frankfurt and New York.
TAP privatisation to be relaunched once market conditions are favourable: Transport Minister
Portugal’s Secretary of State for Transport Sergio Monteiro said the privatisation of TAP Portugal
would be relaunched once favourable market conditions exist.
Kenya: one billion Mandera Airport plan on course
Plans are underway to put up an international airport in Mandera town at a cost of Sh1 billion, the
governor Ali Roba has said.
Delta to wait for new jets to prove themselves
US carrier Delta Air Lines will watch the wave of orders for the latest Airbus and Boeing planes and
wait for the aircraft to prove themselves before ordering any, its chief executive told Reuters on
Wednesday.