New York-based JetBlue Airways began 4X-weekly service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to a third Cuban city, Holguin, located in eastern Cuba 400 miles from Havana, on Nov. 10.
Santiago, Chile-based LATAM Airlines Group posted a $4.7 million net profit for the 2016 third quarter, reversed from a $113.3 million net loss in 3Q 2015.
Dubai-based Emirates Airline has retired its last Airbus A330-200 and A340-300 aircraft, becoming an all-Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 operator for passenger flights.
Central and Eastern European low-cost carrier (LCC) Wizz Air reported an interim first-half net income of €253.3 million ($284.2 million) for the six months to Sept. 30, up 39.1% from a €182.1 million profit in the year-ago period.
The night-flight ban at Germany’s Frankfurt Airport continues to put Lufthansa at a disadvantage for creating additional business, increasing earnings and offering more connections, a Lufthansa executive told ATW.
GE Aviation and its CFM International joint venture (JV) partner, Safran Aircraft Engines, face a “scary, daunting” production ramp-up on the LEAP engine program, but remain confident they will meet ambitious production targets, a senior GE executive said.
Mexican ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) Volaris has received an air operator’s certificate (AOC) from Costa Rica’s Civil Aeronautic Authority, paving the way for the Dec. 1 launch of the airline's new Volaris Costa Rica subsidiary.
American Airlines and the union representing the airline’s flight crew training instructors and simulator pilot instructors approved a new five-year contract Nov. 10.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair and German leisure airline TUIfly have been ordered to repay a total of €12.7 million ($13.9 million) in state aid after the European Commission ruled their deals with Austria’s Klagenfurt Airport were anti-competitive.
Arizona’s Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA) has opened a new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility adjacent to one of the airport’s three 10,000 ft. runways.
Canadian manufacturer Bombardier reported a consolidated net loss of $94 million for the third quarter of 2016, narrowed from the company’s consolidated $4.9 billion net loss in 3Q 2015.
Russian aviation authorities have offered the six airlines participating in the Kaliningrad subsidy program a chance to further develop the Kaliningrad network and sell more subsidized tickets via their websites, using fewer agencies.
Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation has delivered a Boeing 777-300ER to Air China, the first in a batch of five aircraft leased to the carrier under a purchase-and-leaseback arrangement first announced in October.
Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines reported a nine-month 2016 net loss of $463 million, reversed from a net profit of $877 million in the year-ago period.
China’s Hainan Airlines reported a third-quarter net profit of CNY1.7 billion ($251 million), nearly doubled from a net income of CNY887.3 million in the year-ago quarter.
Ethiopian Airlines is in talks over possible joint ventures in a number of African countries, including Botswana, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh, speaking in Washington DC Nov. 9 at the International Aviation Club, congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his election victory and urged the US government and the aviation industry to support a new US-UK Open Skies agreement modeled on the existing US-European Union (EU) Open Skies agreement.
