Virgin Atlantic (VS) will enter the short-haul market next year when it launches a 3X-daily Manchester (MAN)-London Heathrow (LHR) service from March 2013.
AirAsia will increase daily Kuala Lumpur-Yangon service to 2X-daily Oct. 8. British Airways will launch 3X-weekly London Gatwick-Male-Colombo Boeing 777 service March 31. Flybe will launch daily Southampton-Nantes service Oct. 28.
California-based Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is joining forces with the New York-based US National Alliance to Advance NextGen (NAANG) association to call attention to the need for the “rapid upgrading” of the US air traffic system.
Qatar Holding has purchased a 20% stake in UK airports operator BAA. According to the company, the transaction is conditional upon approval by European Union competition authorities.
UK airports operator BAA has agreed to sell London Stansted (STN), dropping further appeals in the legal battle with the UK Competition Commission’s (CC) ruling the airport should be sold.
American Airlines’ flight attendants voted by a 59.5%-40.5% margin to accept what the union representing them considered management’s “last, best and final offer” for a new collective bargaining agreement.
Lufthansa (LH) and airport operator Fraport are suing Germany’s trade union GdF over a series of strikes in February by 200 apron workers, which cost tens of millions of euros in lost revenue and the cancellation of around 1,800 flights.
Hainan Airlines (HU) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Fujian provincial government to launch a new subsidiary, Fuzhou Airlines, as it expands into the South China market.
Frontier Airlines will launch 3X-weekly Denver-Fargo Airbus A319 service Nov. 16. Air Berlin (AB) and Finnair (AY) have extended a codeshare under which AB will place its code on AY flights from Helsinki to Tallinn, Turku, Tampere and Oulu. AY will place its code on AB flights from Oslo Gardermoen, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen to Berlin (BER) and from CPH to Dusseldorf (DUS) Oct. 28. AY is also adding its code to AB-operated daily flights from DUS and BER to Abu Dhabi.
Rockwell Collins, which announced a retrofit update to the Boeing 757/767 flight deck at the Farnborough Airshow in July, has revealed that it is planning to add synthetic vision capability by around 2016.
United Airlines (UA) subsidiary Continental Micronesia (CMI) flight attendants on Friday ratified a new labor agreement, extending the previous collective bargaining agreement through December 2014.
Lufthansa Cargo (LHC) will take delivery of the first of five GE 90-powered Boeing 777 freighters in the fall of 2013, followed by two in 2014 and two in 2015.
Air France (AF) pilots’ union SNPL has approved a draft framework agreement that would allow the carrier to pursue its efficiency plan, the airline announced Friday.
‘Together We Can’ video supporting SITA’s global advertising campaign to launch the new brand and showing how SITA is impacting the real world by showcasing customer and partner success stories from all sectors of the air transport industry and around the world.
Lufthansa (LH) flight attendants will continue talks with the carrier Aug. 22 to decide whether to strike if an agreement over improved wages is not reached.
The creditors’ committee of American Airlines (AA) parent AMR Corp. issued a stark warning to AA pilots and other unionized employees of the carrier and regional affiliate American Eagle to “promptly” reach consensual agreements with management on new labor contracts.
Bahraini national carrier Gulf Air (GF) will resume services to Iraq and Iran, some 17 months after it was ordered to suspend flights to the two countries over a political dispute.
Lufthansa Technik signed a 10-year component support contract with Go Airlines covering the carrier's present and future fleet of 20 Airbus A320s and 72 A320neos. FL Technics Training has an agreement with Avia Group Techniks to provide technical training courses for the company’s MRO specialists in Russia and Lithuania. EgyptAir Maintenance & Engineering completed A checks on two Boeing 777-200s for Orenair.
Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and Boeing on Thursday opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, announcing the first research project will explore opportunities to refine waste cooking oil into sustainable aviation biofuel.
