Air Transport World

Air Partner’s Aircraft Remarketing division (formerly Cabot Aviation) has been appointed by Saudi Arabia’s national carrier Saudia as its exclusive remarketing agent for 15 Boeing 777-200ERs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lima Airport Partners (LAP)—a Fraport majority-owned company—and the government of Peru will move ahead with a major expansion program of Lima Jorge Chavez International Airport (LIM) after signing an amendment to the 2001 Lima Airport Concession.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
Hawaiian Holdings, parent of Hawaiian Airlines, posted $80.4 million net income for the 2017 second quarter, up 1.1% from $79.6 million net profit in 2Q 2017.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
Supersonic-airliner startup Boom Technology believes sufficient research has been conducted for FAA to set a reasonable sonic boom standard that would allow civil supersonic flight over US land within a few years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and UK CAA are tightening their unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) rules, just as research was released on the potential collision damage to commercial aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Mark Nensel
Boeing projects the world’s commercial aviation industry will require at least 2.1 million new operational personnel—pilots, technicians and cabin crew—by 2036.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Fiji Airways has signed an agreement confirming that it will help the government of Samoa relaunch its national airline.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Hawaiian Airlines is set to expand its US west coast presence early next year after receiving its first three Airbus A321neos in the fourth quarter after significant delivery delays.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Aircraft/Engines/Leasing Briefs
Aircraft & Propulsion

Boeing's 20-year forecast (2017-2036) for commercial airline operational personnel hiring: pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin crew.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Singapore Airlines has dropped its short-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) brand Tigerair, merging the airline into mid- to long-haul LCC Scoot.
Airlines & Lessors

New York-based JetBlue Airways reported second-quarter net income of $211 million, up 16.7% over a net profit of $181 million in the 2016 June quarter and a solid turnaround from a 58.8% year-over-year (YOY) net income decline in the 2017 first quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russian airlines carried 46.2 million passengers in 1H 2017, up 21.5% year-over-year (YOY).
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia and Turkey have agreed to designate third carriers to operate scheduled flights on the Moscow-Istanbul route with up to 7X-weekly frequencies.
Airports & Networks

The XIESA MRO facility—a joint venture (JV) of China Eastern Airlines and Safran Landing Systems—has begun construction in Xi’an.
Maintenance & Training

By Mark Nensel
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), working with US intelligence experts, built a large personal electronic device (PED) laden with explosives and tested it “on a real airplane, on the ground [and] pressurized,” US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary John Kelly said last week at a security forum event in Aspen, Colorado.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
MRO Briefs-July 24, 2017
Maintenance & Training

By Mark Nensel
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) fined American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Frontier Airlines July 21 for violations of DOT consumer protection rules that occurred between 2014 and 2015.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Azul Brazilian Airlines has named longtime CFO John Rodgerson as its new CEO, replacing Azul founder David Neeleman, who will remain with the São Paulo-based airline as chairman of its board of directors.
Airlines & Lessors

Ireland-based lessor SMBC Aviation Capital is continuing to focus on the most technologically advanced fleet and is evaluating further orders of next generation widebody aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

UK low-cost carrier (LCC) easyJet will recruit more than 1,200 new permanent- and fixed-term cabin crew positions—the largest cabin crew intake in its 21-year history—as the LCC continues to grow.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

All personal electronic device (PED) restrictions for flights to the US have been lifted by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which said airlines and airports around the world are complying with new security requirements for all US-bound flights.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Ireland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair reported a 55% jump in net profit for the first quarter of its 2018 financial year, with the post-tax figure rising to €397 million ($453 million), compared to €256 million a year ago.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has predicted a need for 1,170 passenger aircraft, worth $135 billion at list prices, by 2036, the Russian manufacturer said during last week’s MAKS Air Show in Moscow.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Darwin Airline’s newly appointed CEO Heinrich Ollendiek said its new owners will be a much better “fit” with the Swiss regional carrier than its previous equity partner, Etihad Airways.
Airlines & Lessors