Airline officials say a JetBlue Airways plane slid off of the taxiway at Boston’s Logan Airport. Officials say JetBlue Flight 50 from Savannah, Georgia, briefly skidded when it landed around 7:15 p.m. Monday. Firefighters helped passengers off of the plane and they were bused to the terminal. Authorities say no one was injured. The Massachusetts Port Authority tells WHDH-TV that snow forced the airport to close its runways for a short period Monday morning. Massport officials say runways were cleared by 11:30 a.m.<br/>
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A new charter carrier, under Malaysia Airlines's Project Hope, is on track to start operating by 2019. MAS said the new airline, which has yet to be named, would operate all six of its double-deck wide-body Airbus A380 aircraft. It is understood that the new carrier will be the first commercial airline in the world to serve only the Umrah and Hajj pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia and Jeddah using the A380s. According to MAS' former CE Peter Bellew, Project Hope is expected to be approved by MAS' sole shareholder Khazanah Nasional Bhd by end-2017.<br/>
Not for the first time, Vietnamese discount carrier VietJet Air is using sex to sell seats, unveiling a promotional calendar for 2018 featuring women in bikinis. The airline, which flies from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City and serves 23 domestic and 10 international destinations, is calling its VietJet Bikini Calendar a “hot item for all aviation fans and travellers”. So is this stunt really about promoting good customer service? The calendar includes images of scantily clad women posing as pilots, air traffic controllers, technicians, maintenance staff and flight attendants. All of this is in aid of “presenting a very interesting perspective to the airline’s excellent services and modern fleet”, according to the media release. Of course, the women in the calendar don’t work on any of the airline’s 49 aircraft. In fact, most of them are not even Vietnamese. Its tactics to boost sales appear to have worked. Launched in December 2011, VietJet Air now runs 300 flights a day on a fleet of Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, operating 40% of all domestic flights in Vietnam. <br/>