Qatar Airways Cargo will launch weekly Boeing 777F Doha-Hanoi-Hong Kong-Doha service April 15. Emirates will begin to utilize an Airbus A380 on thrice-weekly Dubai-Shanghai Pudong services from April 27. Vueling will operate thrice-weekly London Heathrow-Vigo service April 16 until October. Ryanair will launch twice-weekly Brussels South Charleroi-Pula service June 20.
Boeing announced it is in “advanced discussions with multiple customers” regarding its GoldCare lifecycle support offering for 737NGs. Boeing recently revealed to ATW that it is offering GoldCare for the 737NG in addition to the 787 operators and is considering extending it to older models ( ATW, Apr. 1).
Bmibaby, the low-fare unit of bmi, will cease operations at Manchester and Cardiff airports at the end of the summer schedule but expand at Belfast City, East Midlands and Birmingham airports. The LCC will switch two aircraft to BHD and launch a six-times-weekly, year-round service to Amsterdam Oct. 31 and a twice-weekly seasonal winter service to Geneva Dec. 17. It will also launch five new routes for summer 2012 to Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Faro and Ibiza, lifting its network from/to the airport to 12 destinations.
Japan's Skymark Airlines said it plans to operate a low fare "Narita Shuttle" service starting in November. It reportedly will operate daily frequencies from Tokyo Narita to Japanese domestic destinations. According to press reports, Skymark President Shinichi Nishikubo told a Tokyo news conference this week that "there is a big potential demand" for low fares NRT domestic service. He said the operation could include as many as 25 daily flights to nine destinations by 2014. Initial flights will be to Naha, Sapporo and Asahikawa, according to Kyodo News.
Kenya Airways on Thursday said it reached a settlement with Boeing on a new delivery schedule for nine Boeing 787-8s, and finalized a purchase agreement signed in 2006 after previously threatening to cancel the order over the delays to the program.
Approximately 1,300 kg. (2,866 lbs.) of fuel leaked from the left RB211 engine of a Thomas Cook Boeing 757 during a June 10, 2010 flight from Milas-Bodrum Airport in Turkey to London Gatwick, according to a UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch report released Thursday.
US FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Hank Krakowski resigned Thursday as the agency conducts a "top to bottom review" of the way it operates the ATC system in the wake of several embarrassing incidents involving controllers who were sleeping on the job.
US FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Hank Krakowski resigned Thursday as the agency conducts a "top to bottom review" of the way it operates the US ATC system in the wake of several embarrassing incidents involving controllers, including unresponsive controllers who apparently were asleep on the job.
Rockwell Collins was selected by Ethiopian Airlines to provide its second-generation dPAVES high-definition digital overhead audio/video IFE systems for 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Mxi Technologies announced LAN Airlines completed enterprise-wide implementation of its Maintenix Software.
Turkish airlines will need to add 480 aircraft valued at $50.5 billion over the next 18 years to accommodate projected increases in traffic demand, Airbus said. According to reports by Hürriyet Daily News and Agence France Press, Airbus VP-Europe, Asia and the Pacific Chris Buckley presented the manufacturer's forecast in Istanbul, where he noted that "Turkey's air traffic has grown fast and this will continue." He pointed out that Turkish domestic traffic has quadrupled in the last seven years.
Italy’s civil aviation administration ENAC last month revoked the Air Operator’s Certificate of ItAli Airlines, citing the carrier’s continuing critical financial situation. ItAli was the first Western carrier to place an order in 2007 for 10 firm Sukhoi Superjet 100s and a further 10 options. The order was taken off Sukhoi’s order book earlier this year. The Rome Ciampino-based airline operated five MD-80s, and its executive flight division Mustfly had one Cessna Citation and five Citation Mustangs.
A Japan Airlines 737-800 en route from Tokyo Haneda landed Wednesday at Sendai Airport around 8 a.m. local time, marking the resumption of commercial services at SDJ for the first time since it was inundated on March 11 by the earthquake-triggered tsunami.
Although the US and EU remain apart on several key aeropolitical issues such as foreign ownership, airport security and the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, European Commission VP Transport Siim Kallas expressed optimism that the divide can and will be bridged.
US FAA announced it will place an additional air traffic controller on the midnight shift at 27 control towers around the country where only one controller is on duty.
American Airlines charged Travelport with violations of federal antitrust laws in a new lawsuit filed against the GDS company and Orbitz in a US federal court in Fort Worth.
A Japan Airlines 737-800 en route from Tokyo Haneda landed Wednesday at Sendai Airport around 8 a.m. local time, marking the resumption of commercial services at SDJ for the first time since it was inundated on March 11 by the earthquake-triggered tsunami.
AFI KLM E&M was selected by Air Europa to modify the full-economy class of one recently acquired Airbus A330 to a dual-class cabin. Driessen-Zodiac Aerospace signed an agreement with Airbus to “progressively” introduce galleys as “Seller Furnished Equipment” on A320 family aircraft. The SFE approach will begin with deliveries from mid 2012 on, it said.
Etihad Airways has selected Manchester as the location for its newest contact center, to be operational in 2012, joining centers in Abu Dhabi, India and Australia. It is now working with the Manchester Airports Group to find a location on the airport campus. The center is expected to create 160 jobs for the region, Etihad said.
US FAA assigned Barbados a Category 2 safety rating, which means that Barbados does not comply with international safety standards set by ICAO, based on an assessment by Barbados’ civil aviation authority. As a result, Barbados’ air carriers, which do not currently serve the US, cannot establish US service.
