因欧洲脆弱的经济环境,法国全商务舱航空公司La Compagnie暂停了往返伦敦卢顿和纽约的跨大西洋航空服务。 La Compagnie运营的波音757-200飞机配备了拥有74个多角度平躺式座椅的客舱。该公司将继续运营往返巴黎戴高乐机场和纽约纽瓦克自由国际机场的航线,并将从10月起推出该航线上的第二个每日航班。 在暂停伦敦服务4个月之前,La Compagnie曾在伦敦举办新闻发布会,庆祝伦敦-纽约航线开通一周年。尽管该航线的载客率自6月起上升至77%。但该公司表示,“这条特定航线的经济情况依然脆弱”。 La Compagnie公司称,并非草率决定暂停伦敦航线,尽管公司收到了“许多重要的英国和美国客户非常积极的反馈”。
The global air freight market increased 3.9% year-over-year (YOY) in August, down slightly from July’s revised 4% growth, illustrating the “stiff headwind” air freight continues to encounter amidst “the ongoing sluggishness of global trade conditions,” according to IATA’s August Air Freight Market Analysis.
Russia’s UTair Aviation will launch a 3X-weekly Saint Petersburg-Munich Boeing 737 service Oct. 30, its first scheduled international flight from St. Petersburg in the IATA 2016-17 winter season.
German leisure carrier TUIfly expects flight operations to return to normal Sunday, following several hundred delays and cancellations that began Thursday, Oct. 6, when many aircraft crew began calling in sick on short notice following concerns about a partial merger between TUIfly and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Aviation Group.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has ordered a tenth Boeing 777-300ER, to be delivered in 2018, the carrier announced Oct. 7.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has awarded type certification to the Bombardier CS300, the larger version of the CSeries slated to enter service with Latvian carrier airBaltic in the 2016 fourth quarter.
Stamford, Connecticut-based commercial aircraft lessor Intrepid Aviation has revised a firm purchase commitment with Boeing for six 777-300ERs, canceling two of the 777-300ERs in favor of two new 747-8F freighters.
Lufthansa Group—parent of Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa,Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and the soon-to-be-acquired Brussels Airlines—has released the company’s 2016/2017 winter flight timetable, effective Oct. 30 through March 25, 2017.
Irish lessor Avolon has agreed to acquire US company CIT Group’s leasing business for $10 billion, creating the world’s third largest lessor with a fleet of 910 aircraft worth over $43 billion.
As Hurricane Matthew, a major Category 4 storm, bears down on Florida and the southeastern US on Thursday, airlines serving the region have announced preemptive operational closures and flight cancellations.
IATA has welcomed ICAO’s worldwide emissions deal as “critically important” and urged countries to stick with one system, rather than introducing a patchwork of other initiatives.