Shortly after the historic Pasco, Washington-Boise, Idaho-Elko, Nevada flight of Varney Air Lines on April 6, 1926, this group posed before a Laird Swallow biplane at Boise. Shown (from left) are pilot Joe Taff, pilot Franklin Rose, Hal Bruntach, Mrs. Walter T. Varney, Walter T. Varney, his father Thomas Varney, chief pilot Leon Cuddeback, the senior Varney’s chauffeur, and a representative of the US Post Office.

Regional manufacturers put off a decision on launching a 80-100 seat turboprop.

British United was the largest privately owned airline in the 1960s in the UK. It began as a merger between Airwork Services and Hunting-Clan Air Transport. Its main shareholder was British & Commonwealth Shipping (B&C) and it began as a charter airline flying 90 assorted fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.

After the Great East Japan earthquake and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power disaster, All Nippon Airways executives were faced with a 20% year-over-year drop on domestic routes. Without any government assistance, ANA swiftly made finely tuned adjustments to its capacity and moved up cost-cutting plans so it could not only adapt to the rapidly changed environment, but also could continue with its international expansion plans, such as launching new Haneda-Frankfurt, Narita-Seattle and Haneda-Beijing routes.

IATA slightly improved its 2013 financial outlook for the world’s airlines in March, citing strong passenger demand and signs that cargo markets are starting to grow again. IATA now expects airlines to produce a combined net post-tax profit margin of 1.6%, up from the previously forecast 1.3%, with a net post-tax profit of $10.6 billion, up from the previously projected $8.4 billion.

It’s one of those bizarre quirks that the airline industry found itself this spring with two 787s needing to get off the ground.

Delta Airlines in New York City:from non-existent to major force.

In February 1929, after eight years of operation, Pan Am owner Juan Trippe took over Mexicana and opened the carrier’s first international route from its base in Mexico City to Brownsville, Texas via Tuxpan and Tampico.