Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber told ATW last week that LH subsidiary Austrian Airlines is on track to become profitable on an operating level this year.
Two Qantas executives at the center of an investigation into multimillion-dollar fuel-hedging losses in Vietnam have been allowed to return to Australia.
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Hawaiian Airlines will launch four-times-weekly Honolulu-Seoul Incheon service in January 2011 pending approval from South Korea's Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs aboard a 767-300ER. It expects to increase service on the route "as its long-range fleet expansion progresses."
Canadian regional Jazz Air reached a tentative labor contract agreement with approximately 760 flight attendants represented by the Canadian Flight Attendants Union. Pending ratification, further details were not disclosed. Jazz and its pilots reached a tentative agreement on a new labor pact on June 25 that is still subject to ratification, and negotiations with its 33 crew schedulers are ongoing, the carrier said.
The North American aerospace and defense industry will face significant challenges owing to problems in leadership development, talent sourcing, organizational structure and corporate culture problems, according to a report by Accenture.
The International Assn. of Machinists, which represents Northwest Airlines mechanics and ground service workers, yesterday filed an application with the US National Mediation Board seeking declaration of NWA and Delta Air Lines as a "single carrier" so that it can move forward with a unionization vote that could allow it to represent more than 30,000 DL/NWA workers.
Delta Air Lines said yesterday it has entered into definitive agreements to sell subsidiaries Mesaba and Compass Airlines, both of which it acquired in its merger with Northwest Airlines, for a combined $82.5 million.
The airline industry received a pleasant surprise last month when IATA projected that carriers would return to profit on a global basis in 2010 after a brutal two years...
A year that began with airlines mired in the worst recession in at least 30 years ended on an upbeat note and the momentum has carried into 2010. But watch out for volcanoes.
El Al will launch 17-times-weekly Tel Aviv-Eilat service Aug. 1. Sun Country Airlines will launch service from Lansingto Las Vegas(twice-weekly), Fort Myers(thrice-weekly, increasing to four-times-weekly during peak travel periods), Orlando(twice-weekly, increasing to thrice-weekly Dec. 2-Jan.4), Montego Bay(weekly) and Cancun(four-times-weekly) Dec. 22. Air Berlin will operate twice-weekly service to Arvidsjaur from Hanoverand StuttgartNov. 29-April 1.
Japan Airlines yesterday detailed its schedule for international operations from Tokyo Haneda beginning Oct. 31, explaining that it will use its extensive network of domestic flights to/from the airport to feed passengers to international services and to offer arriving international passengers transport from HND to destinations throughout Japan.
