Paris-based all-business-class airline La Compagnie will introduce the first of its two incoming Airbus A321neos in April, configured with 76 lie-flat seats in a two-by-two layout.
The US Senate on Oct. 3 passed the bi-partisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 by a 93-6 vote, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by US President Donald Trump.
American Airlines plans to add new service to Mexico and Cuba, increase frequencies to several other destinations, and bolster regional flying from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) as part of its summer 2019 schedule.
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) will partner with China’s Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) to bid for the concession to operate Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport, as the country’s government has opened the tender process.
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has flown a Boeing 747 from Orlando, Florida, to London Gatwick on a blend of waste-gas biofuel produced by New Zealand-based LanzaTech, using an alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) process.
Civil Aviation Group, a consortium comprising Romania-based LCC Blue Air and a group of investors from the Republic of Moldova, will take over Air Moldova after the government put its loss-making national carrier up for privatization in August.
JetBlue Airways does not expect to see tangible bottom-line results from its newly announced version of no-frills fares until late 2019, a top executive acknowledged.
Air travelers want airlines to deliver more real-time information to their personal devices, including updates on flight status (82%), baggage (49%) and wait-times at security and immigration checkpoints (46%), according to survey data from IATA’s latest Global Passenger Survey (GPS), released Oct. 2.
With an additional $586 million in US airport infrastructure grants, FAA’s fifth round of airport improvement program (AIP) awards brought the total announced year to date to $3.3 billion, just shy of the $3.35 billion allotted for the program in fiscal year 2018 federal funding.
Global airline passenger growth remained strong in August, with traffic demand rising 6.5% year-over-year (YOY), slightly higher than the 6.1% increase recorded in July.
The Airbus A321neo has won joint approval for long-range operations from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the FAA, paving the way for flexible long-range operations for its launch customers.
The FAA has proposed a $474,000 civil penalty against Denver, Colorado-based Frontier Airlines, alleging the company operated hundreds of flights without required medical supplies.
The FAA next year will begin a phased evaluation of satellite-aided surveillance of aircraft flying over oceanic spaces, including use of the Aireon space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system scheduled to begin operating in 2019.
Indonesian regional carrier TransNusa Airlines has completed the phaseout of Fokker aircraft from its operational fleet and is preparing to receive more ATR turboprops.
Forty-eight new airports have joined the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, taking the total number of airports worldwide engaged in climate action to 246, Airports Council International (ACI) told the Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva Oct. 2.
EasyJet has signed up UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic as the latest new airline partner in its connecting service “Worldwide by easyJet,” giving passengers the chance to connect from easyJet to Virgin Atlantic long-haul flights through London’s Gatwick Airport.
United Airlines has added nine Boeing 787-9s to its backlog with deliveries slated to start in 2020 and plans to use the aircraft to replace existing widebodies, the Chicago-based carrier said Oct. 1.
Nordic LCC Primera Air, the leisure carrier that had hoped to tap into growing demand for low-cost transatlantic air travel, said it was ceasing operations and would enter the administration process after 14 years of operation.
Vienna-based Lufthansa LCC subsidiary Eurowings Europe and trade union Vida have agreed on a contract for cockpit and cabin crews, retroactive to March 1.
Air France’s head of human resources Gilles Gateau is leaving the company on Oct. 12, marking the second executive departure in less than a week for the airline, which has been locked in a turbulent pay dispute with its workforce for months.
Irish LCC Ryanair warned Oct. 1 it could not rule out reductions in earnings this year as a combination of strikes and higher fuel costs affect revenues.
