Air Transport World

Boeing acknowledged Tuesday that Iran Air has signed a letter of intent to order airliners, confirming the US manufacturer intends to challenge Airbus vigorously in the politically sensitive, but potentially lucrative Middle Eastern market.

MRO Briefs-June 21, 2016

China’s Hainan Airlines is aiming to return to the Africa/Middle East market with the relaunch of the Beijing-Cairo route in December, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) plans to conduct an investigation into terms and conditions set by airlines when they sell tickets, to ensure they are transparent and readily understandable.

Airbus is making its first A350-900 demonstration tour of China, from June 25-July 2, as it attempts to tap further into the booming Chinese airline market.

Russian air navigation and aviation information service providers have signed an agreement with US-based Aireon, marking the first inroads for the nascent space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) provider in Eastern Europe.

The Russian government is ready to invest up to RUB530 million ($8.3 million) in assembly of the revived Let L-410 in the Ural region before the end of the year.

Boeing has signed an agreement with Iran Air for passenger aircraft, a Boeing spokesman confirmed to ATW. “Boeing confirms the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Iran Air expressing the airline’s intent to purchase Boeing commercial passenger airplanes."

US Airlines ranked by year-to-date total reservation cancellation/change fee revenue. Data is current as of June 20, 2016.

People-June 20, 2016

Brussels Airlines is introducing a third long-haul class, branded as Economy Plus, on its Airbus A330s from July 1.

US airlines ranked by year-to-date 2016 baggage fees revenue, in US $ thousands. Data is current as of June 20, 2016.

London’s Gatwick Airport has opened its new Pier 1 to passenger traffic.

Norwegian air navigation service provider (ANSP), Avinor, has officially joined the iTEC collaboration, marking another step toward aligning air traffic management systems in support of a Single European Sky (SES).

Australian regulators have approved Virgin Australia’s request for daily flights to Hong Kong and Beijing, which will be a key part of Virgin Australia’s new partnership with China’s HNA Group.

Ethiopian Airlines will take delivery of the first of 14 Airbus A350 XWBs on June 28, making it Africa’s first operator of the type.

US airlines on-time performance, ranked by percentage of flight arrivals on-time at all reporting airports at which these carriers operate.

The rate of change in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as year-over-year percentage growth or losses. Differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.

Data represents the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group.

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has announced that an unidentified customer has signed a firm purchase agreement for 10 CRJ900 aircraft.

Fiji Airways has launched a new San Francisco–Fiji service to complement its existing Fiji-Los Angeles and Honolulu schedules.

Air Lease Corp. (ALC) has appointed John Plueger as president and CEO, effective July 1, as current CEO Steven Udvar-Házy assumes the role of executive chairman of the board, a full-time officer role.

Central European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has announced the departure of EVP John Stephenson and the appointment of George Michalopoulos as CCO.

Investigators have begun processing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders (CVRs and FDRs) recovered from the EgyptAir Airbus A320, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in May.

Passenger Experience-June 17, 2017