Calif.-based Boeing employees have won a ruling entitling them to back pay and benefits, which an arbitrator said had been denied to employees at Edwards Air Force Base and Palmdale.
Russian airlines carried 57 million passengers during the first nine months of the year, up 15.2% over the year-ago period, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency/Rosaviatsia said in a statement.
IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said the European Union’s (EU) insistence on including aviation in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and the controversy that has erupted over its stance, is “poisoning the atmosphere that is needed to achieve a global approach” on managing aircraft carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at ICAO.
Fastjet, the African low-cost carrier backed by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has unveiled its new brand and will begin selling tickets next week.
Russia’s UTair Aviation (UT) and VEB-Leasing have signed a financing deal for the delivery of 20 Airbus A321s the carrier ordered at the Farnborough Airshow.
AirBaltic began operating seasonal winter service from Riga to London (8X-weekly), Paris (9X-weekly), Brussels (10X-weekly), Amsterdam (9X-weekly), Budapest (3X-weekly), Vienna (10X-weekly), Munich (10X-weekly), Dusseldorf (5X-weekly), Billund (4X-weekly), Bergen (4X-weekly), Chisinau (2X-weekly), and Oslo (20X-weekly) Oct. 28.
Horizon Air (QX) and its pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), have reached a tentative agreement to extend their current contract for six years.
Russia’s Aeroflot (SU) will create a low-cost carrier if state authorities make changes in the air code allowing carriers to sell nonrefundable tickets, SU CEO Vitaly Saveliev said.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan are reportedly discussing a possible partnership between Lufthansa (LH) and Turkish Airlines (THY).
Ryanair (FR) has reported a first-half profit of €596 million ($762 million), up 10% compared to the year-ago period, on revenues of €3.1 billion, up 15% year-over-year.
I was recently at an airline-industry trade show, and picked up a relatively small (roughly 7X4 inches; 19X11 centimeters) printed booklet at one of the stands. While it had a color cover, and a few other color photos, along with a nice foldout map of the carrier's worldwide route system at the back, most of the document consisted of tabular material printed in black & white, with single-color accents.
Air traffic controllers in Greece will strike Tuesday for three hours, bringing delays and flight cancellations, as part of a nationwide anti-austerity strike in Greece.
Iberia Maintenance has signed a five-year contract with GMF AeroAsia to exclusively service and maintain components for Garuda Indonesia’s new fleet of Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets.
Latvian flag-carrier AirBaltic (BT) has posted a third-quarter net profit of LVL4.8 million ($8.9 million) in the third quarter and anticipates ending the year with figures that will outstrip its estimates.
Republic Airways Holdings (RAH), parent of Chautauqua Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America posted a third-quarter net income of $25.8 million, a $16.8 million increase over the prior year quarter.
Mexico’s domestic air traffic grew 9.1% in September year-over-year, while international traffic increased 6.6%, according to the Director General of Civil Aviation.
Flydubai has acquired a $117.5 million loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank supporting exports of Boeing 737-800s. Lufthansa (LH) will begin testing hourly schedule intervals from Frankfurt to Hamburg, Berlin Tegel and Munich in the upcoming winter schedule. LH wants to deliver a more sustainable, easy-to-remember schedule for business travelers.
