A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles landed safely in Sydney Thursday after the pilot warned the plane was running low on fuel, officials said. The airline said Flight 839 landed safely at Sydney International "following a mechanical issue." "The aircraft taxied to the gate and all customers disembarked normally," the airline said. Sydney emergency services radioed that airliner, which United said was a Boeing 787 containing 180 passengers and 14 crew, "has fuel issues and has issued a mayday." An Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman said the airliner was given priority to land, but had not been in danger. "There's an international standard that requires that once you get down to your fuel reserve in a flight that you have to declare what is called a 'fuel mayday,'" he said. <br/>
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India's govt is finalising a revival package for Air India that will include financial assistance and a strategy aimed at making it a more competitive carrier. "The revival package is in its final stages right now and as part of that revival package, we are also looking at what we should do financially for Air India," minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha said Monday. This includes financial support for the cash-strapped airline, along with "a series of reforms to ensure that Air India is a professionally-managed company". Sinha added that the plan also includes implementing "a strategy that will make Air India in a competitive, successful airline", as well as a "series of measures to improve the conditions and terms" of its workforce. He did not provide further details on the 4 focus areas of the plan. <br/>
The village of Baranow, Poland, is a bucolic place, with little more than a general store, a school named after Pope John Paul II, and a church whose spire juts above groves of trees. Rafal Milczarski wants to see it bulldozed and filled with screaming jetliners. The CE of LOT Polish Airlines says his company and his country need a modern airline hub to serve Warsaw, 40 kilometers to the east. The US$19b project, which would be 15 minutes from Warsaw’s central station by train, is key to LOT’s ambitions to triple passenger traffic and boost long-haul service to Asia and the Americas. Construction is slated to begin in 2021, after the govt acquires the land in Baranow and nearby towns, and flights will begin in 2027. Further phases would add more runways and terminals, increasing capacity to 100m passengers a year. <br/>
Austrian Airlines and Air Canada will expand their transatlantic joint venture from April 29, 2019. Austrian Airlines will launch new daily Vienna-Montreal Boeing 767-300ER services from April 29, which will operate 5X-weekly in the winter season. Air Canada will take over existing Austrian Airlines Toronto-Vienna Boeing 787-9 services. These flights will operate daily in the summer and 5X-weekly during the winter season. Both carriers codeshare on these routes. “We succeeded in attracting a strong partner to Vienna. In this way, we will feature an additional destination in our Canadian offering and strengthen our continental transfer traffic at the same time,” Austrian CCO Andreas Otto said. In July 2017, Austrian Airlines altered its long-haul network to eliminate loss-making routes from Vienna to Hong Kong, Havana and Colombo. <br/>