Calgary-based low-cost carrier WestJet (WS) reported second-quarter net income of C$42.5 million ($42.4 million), up 65.9% over a C$25.6 million net profit in the prior-year period.
Kuwait-based Jazeera Airways Group recorded a half-year net profit of KD3.8 million ($13.5 million), up 21.8% year-over-year, despite continuing unrest in the region.
The skies may have been cloudy and produced intermittent periods of cold rain at the 2012 Farnborough Airshow, but the mood of OEMs selling their products to the commercial air transport industry remained quite sunny throughout the mid-July event south of London. Indeed, belying both the weather and the shaky state of the global economy, billions of dollars worth of orders rolled in for new aircraft and engines from lessors and airlines that see strong growth going forward.
Zero Octa has been selected by Siberia Airlines to provide passenger sales audit services. Zero Octa is a subsidiary of Kale Consultants. ARINC Inc. was selected by Cathay Pacific Airways to implement an advanced information system on its full fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The communications suite offers fully customized, integrated communications management of flight operations, data communication services, cabin services, maintenance, diagnostics and safety information.
Privately owned Bahrain Air (BN) said it is recovering from last year’s Middle East disturbances with a jump in traffic for the second quarter compared to the same period last year.
Tianjin-based Okay Airways (OKA) is seeking approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to launch a new regional carrier—to be named Longjiang Airlines—with the Heilongjiang local government, as it explores the regional market in Northeast China.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday said it has decided to conduct an investigation into the GE Aviation GEnx engine failure that occurred on a Boeing 787 during a taxi test at Charleston Airport in South Carolina July 28, prompting a small grass fire.
Embraer reported second-quarter net income of $54.3 million on revenues of $1.7 billion, down from $204.7 million in net income in the prior-year period.
A wide range of US organizations—including Airlines for America (A4A), the Aerospace Industries Assn. (AIA), Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA), several airline employee unions and the Chamber of Commerce—have asked the US government to “strongly restate opposition to—and continuing plans for overturning—the application of the EU [Emissions Trading Scheme] ETS to international aviation.”
An arbitrator appointed by the Canadian government has sided with Air Canada (AC) in the carrier’s long-running faceoff with its pilots, imposing AC’s “final offer” to the flight deck crew as a new labor pact that will be effective through April 1, 2016.
Philippine-based airline Cebu Pacific (5J) will sell its entire Airbus A319 fleet of 10 aircraft to Las Vegas, Nev.-based Allegiant Travel Co., according to a statement made to the Philippine Stock Exchange.
Virgin America has appointed John MacLeod as its new SVP-planning and sales. MacLeod is formerly WestJet’s VP-network management and alliances. Qantas (QF) has announced Brett Johnson will retire as the Qantas Group's general counsel. He will be replaced by Andrew Finch, effective Nov. 1. Finch joins QF from Allens where he has been a partner since 2002.
French carrier Aigle Azur (ZI) plans to launch service from France to Asia. ZI CEO Meziane Idjerouidene said the new routes will be announced at the end of this year or the beginning of 2013.
LAN Airlines and TAM, which completed their merger under LATAM Airlines Group last month, will decide which alliance to join “not before the first half of 2013,” LATAM GM-Europe Francisco Vidal told local media.
Las Vegas, Nev.-based Allegiant Air, the low-cost carrier owned by Allegiant Travel Co., said it will lease 19 used Airbus A319s to begin entering its fleet in the 2013 second quarter.
A GE Aviation GEnx engine powering a newly built Boeing 787 is being prepared to be torn down as part of an investigation after it appears to have shed something that prompted a small grass fire at Charleston Airport (CHS) in South Carolina over the weekend.
