British Airways (BA) has completed a major makeover of 18 of the airline’s Boeing 747s to give them the look and feel of their newest aircraft, with 16 additional Club World lie-flat seats and state-of-the-art inflight entertainment systems.
FAA is opening up approximately 1,400 new entry-level air traffic control specialist (ATCS) positions and will accept applications Aug. 8-15, the agency announced Aug. 2.
Four Southwest Airlines unions are calling for the resignations of CEO Gary Kelly and COO Mike Van de Ven, citing what they call “leadership failures.”
July’s Farnborough Airshow produced a boost for European OEM Airbus, with sales at the UK event contributing toward a total of 146 single- and twin-aisle sales over the month.
The United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will produce a preliminary report into the Aug. 3 crash of an Emirates Airline Boeing 777-300 at Dubai International Airport within a month, the regulator said Aug. 4.
Polish flag carrier LOT has denied press reports that its Chinese counterpart Air China is considering taking a 49% stake in the eastern European airline.
Panama City-based Copa Holdings posted net income of $54.5 million for the 2016 second quarter, down 14.9% from a net income of $64.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
Worldwide air freight market demand rose 4.3% year-over-year (YOY) in June—the sector’s biggest rise since April 2015—according to IATA’s Air Freight Market Analysis.
Germany-based airberlin will increase flights to the US up to 50% by summer 2017, from 55 to 78 weekly nonstop flights from Berlin and Dusseldorf compared to this summer.
Air cargo operator Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings posted 2016 second-quarter net income of $20.6 million, down 27.5% from the $28.4 million net profit the company reported in the year-ago quarter.
Emirates Airline suffered its first-ever hull loss accident on Aug. 3 when a Boeing 777-300 crash-landed at Dubai’s International Airport and burst into flames.
The European Commission (EC) is to demand that several airlines operating into the Italian island of Sardinia pay back what have been deemed unfair subsidies.
American Airlines said the US Department of Transportation (DOT) award of a daytime Minneapolis–Tokyo Haneda flight to Delta Air Lines does not serve the public interest.
