Vitria Technology was selected by Iberia to provide the integration backbone that will streamline various technological projects the carrier will roll out over the next three years.
Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems' Airport Logistics division completed the inline baggage security screening system upgrade at Denver International Airport. The $88 million project was finished in 20 months.
Boeing and a group of its machinists, represented by the International Assn. of Machinists, began formal contract negotiations last week during which IAM presented its proposed modification to the existing collective bargaining agreement, which will expire at midnight on Sept. 1. The contract covers Boeing employees in the Seattle area, Wichita and Portland.
SWE FLY selected SAS Components' Free2Fly for its single 767-200. The aircraft is stationed at Stockholm Skavsta and used to serve Lahore and Bangkok. The carrier plans to expand its operations and is looking to add another two 767s to its fleet this year that will be used on flights to destinations in Asia.
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Amadeus is developing a common, open-architecture distribution platform for hotels, similar in approach to its Altéa airline platform. The goal is to address the issue of fragmented hotel technology disparate property management, central reservations, revenue management and customer relationship management systems and to create a platform that distributes hotel inventory through all channels and integrates with all systems.
Qatar set to order 80 A350s, 777s Bombardier forges agreement with PWC for CSeries engine Finnish Commuter orders eight ATR 42s Boeing says 747ADV program on schedule Additional stories Paris Air Show news from June 13 Paris, June 14, 2005 Qatar set to order 80 A350s, 777s
Ryanair carried 2.9 million passengers in May, up 34% on the year-ago period. Load factor improved 1 point to 82%. For the rolling 12 months ended May 31, the number of earned seats totaled 28.8 million.
Japan Airlines said it received registration in the IATA Operational Safety Audit program, an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline.
Kinetics last week introduced CheckinHere, its new kiosk solution that provides multi-airline check-in, prints boarding passes and provides baggage services for passengers at off-airport locations such as hotels, car rental stations and cruise line ports.
Discover the World Marketing officially opened the new office in Moscow that it will use to handle sales and marketing representation in Russia for client Air New Zealand.
Aviation Partners Boeing was awarded an STC for 757-200 blended winglets by FAA. Continental Airlines is the launch customer for the product and already has 11 winglet shipsets on order for its 757-200s for delivery this year. Icelandair also has some on order.
UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, made changes to the responsibilities of two senior executives. Senior VP-Strategic Sourcing and Chief Procurement Officer Richard Poulton will take on additional responsibilities for information technology and business development and now will hold the title of senior VP-business development. In addition, Executive VP-Strategy Doug Hacker will lead efforts to assess United's ancillary businesses as part of completing its Chapter 11 restructuring. The company said Hacker initially will focus on San Francisco-based MyPoints.com.
In order to improve its ontime performance and schedule reliability, Alaska Airlines late last week announced that it will eliminate or suspend several flights this summer. "This is a temporary measure to get our operation back on track after record load factors and increased summer flying, coupled with ongoing company transitions, caused delays and cancellations to rise," Alaska CEO Bill Ayer said.
The Australian government again deferred a decision on whether to allow Singapore Airlines' entry to the corridor to the US and embarked on a comprehensive review of the local aviation industry, according to newspaper reports. Prime Minister John Howard advised his counterpart in Singapore, Lee Sien Loong, that the issue of fifth freedom access for SIA to the South Pacific had been put on hold indefinitely because of the proposed ministerial committee inquiry, The Australian newspaper reported.
Japan Airlines expanded its e-ticketing service to include British Airways-operated JAL codeshare flights via London Heathrow and BA connecting flights.
US airlines' ontime performance improved in April compared to the previous month and April 2004. According to Dept. of Transportation statistics, the 19 reporting carriers posted an ontime arrival rate of 83.4%, slightly better than April 2004's 83% and well above March 2005's 76.9%. Hawaiian Airlines at 95.6% had the highest ontime arrival rate. Of mainline carriers, ATA Airlines posted the best mark at 89% with SkyWest Airlines at 87.6% ranking second. Alaska Airlines had the lowest rate at 77%.
Independence Air flew 311.7 million RPMs in May on capacity of 427.5 million ASMs, which produced a load factor of 72.9%. For the five months ended May 31, RPMs totaled 1.14 billion, ASMs were 1.78 billion and load factor reached 64.9%.
SkyEurope placed an order for 16 737-700 blended winglet shipsets with 16 options. The winglets will be purchased by GECAS and installed by Boeing in February 2006. Meanwhile, the carrier will launch a thrice-weekly Dublin-Krakow service Sept. 20.
