Boeing plans to hire “a few hundred” temporary staffers at its Moses Lake, Washington, facility for work that must be done on stored 737 MAXs awaiting delivery to customers, the company said.
Thai Airways’ president Sumeth Damrongchaitham has asked the company’s senior executives to voluntarily take pay cuts and meet allowances in a bid to save costs.
Airlines for America (A4A) wants the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to adopt a more restrictive definition of “service animal,” part of an effort to end abuses of the rules governing emotional service animals (ESA) in the aircraft cabin.
Lufthansa and its LCC subsidiary Eurowings plans to expand their leisure long-haul network from their Munich and Frankfurt hubs, starting from summer 2020.
British Airways has taken a step toward powering its future fleet with sustainable jet fuel after its renewable fuels partner Velocys applied to develop Europe’s first plant for turning household and commercial solid waste into sustainable fuel.
FAA—citing non-specific “continued airworthiness activity”—reminded operators that angle-of-attack (AOA) sensors can be easily damaged during “normal operations,” and must be carefully maintained to ensure safe flight operations.
American Airlines’ long-haul schedule changes for 2020 will continue to position Chicago O’Hare International Airport as a mid-country gateway to Europe and will test Royal Air Maroc’s Casablanca operation as a potential link deeper into Africa.
Air France-KLM LCC Transavia pilots’ union SPL has filed a strike notice from Sept. 1 to Oct. 15, saying there is insufficient representation of union bodies at talks over the future of Transavia and that Air France pilots’ union, SNPL, has too much say in Transavia’s future.
Réunion-based Air Austral plans to finalize a medium-haul fleet decision over the coming months, as it seeks to develop its network from Réunion and possibly the nearby Indian Ocean island of Mayotte.
Air Transat parent Transat A.T. is urging shareholders to ignore a last-minute appeal from a high-profile, low-percentage shareholder looking to derail Air Canada’s proposed bid as the Aug. 23 vote on the proposal nears.
Delta Air Lines pilots are asking the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to put conditions on the airline’s transatlantic joint venture (JV) with Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic, saying they have “serious concerns” about how Delta has divided service growth among crews under its immunized partnership with Virgin.
French leisure airline Aigle Azur is preparing to stop flying to Portugal at the end of October and sell this part of its activities to Spanish LCC Vueling.
LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle has agreed to sell its entire shareholding in Bank Norwegian parent company Norwegian Finans Holding (NOFI) for NOK2.2 billion ($245.9 million), raising funds to reinvest in the airline.
Aeroflot LCC Pobeda Airlines performed a Boeing 737-800 test flight from Moscow Vnukovo to the new Gagarin International Airport in Saratov, southwestern Russia, Aug. 18.
Consultancy firm IBA has warned of higher market risk after 81 of the more than 120 airlines that the company monitors for financial performance reported lower EBITDAR margins for 2018.
Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) announced in a stock note that its LCC subsidiary, Tigerair Taiwan, will place an order for seven Airbus A320neos and lease a further eight.
Despite robust passenger growth, higher costs and a weaker cargo market saw Korean Air’s net loss widen to 415 billion won ($343 million) in the six months through June 30.
The crash of Norway’s first electric aircraft is being portrayed by local media as a blow to the country’s plan to electrify all domestic aviation by 2040.
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are blaming the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX for a spike of denied boardings in the first half of 2019, according to the latest US Department of Transportation (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report.
