Ryanair will launch 2X-weekly London Stansted-Kefalonia service April 1. Kefalonia is Ryanair's sixth Greek destination from Stansted. Frontier Airlines will launch Trenton service to Atlanta (4X-weekly, April 8), Chicago Midway (6X-weekly, April 8), Columbus (3X-weekly, April 8), Detroit (4X-weekly, April 9) and Raleigh (6X-weekly, April 8) using Airbus A319s.
The aviation segment of General Electric (GE) recorded a $3.75 billion profit for full-year 2012, up 7% year-over-year on a 6% increase in revenues to $19.99 billion.
UK airport company Heathrow Airport Holdings (formerly BAA) has agreed to sell its 100% interest in London Stansted Airport to Manchester Airports Group (MAG) for £1.5 billion ($2.4 billion) in cash.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called for an end to “the excessive restrictions and arbitrary charges that some airlines impose on carry-on luggage.”
The battery used to start the auxiliary power unit (APU) on the Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 787 that caught fire did not overcharge, according to an investigation update released by the US National Transportation Safety Board.
An investigation has been launched after an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 and an Air France Boeing 777-300 collided at Miami International Airport.
Hopefully, the hiatus will be temporary, and brief, but the U.S. FAA's grounding of the Boeing 787, by issuing an AD (Airworthiness Directive) on January 16 was not something that many would have forecast. On the other hand, while unusual to the point of being rare, it's not unprecedented. And, as we'll discuss further, the history on this sort of event goes back a significant distance in time.
Volga-Dnepr Technics (VDT) began A check maintenance services on a Czech Airlines Airbus A320 at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. The carrier is VDT’s launch customer for the service; it received authorization to provide maintenance services up to A check for new aircraft types at the beginning of December. MNG Technic won a contract from Vueling for 6YE checks of two Airbus A320 aircraft.
Airbus, which said the A380’s order book comprises 262 firm orders from 20 customers, acknowledged India’s Kingfisher Airlines order for five of the type “looks shaky.”
India’s minister for civil aviation Ajit Singh said Friday that Air India would seek “some kind of compensation” for the grounding of its six Boeing 787 aircraft.
Italian carrier Meridiana Fly, which had its license downgraded by Italian civil aviation authority ENAC this week, said it will continue normal flight operations.
Qantas has ordered three new Bombardier Q400s and plans to lease five more Boeing 717s, but it has canceled one Boeing 787 in a move unrelated to its grounding.
