Long queues and large crowds on the landside of airports are not necessary and put people at risk, IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler made clear on the opening day of the IATA AGM in Dublin.
Following reports that EgyptAir flight MS804’s recorders may have been detected, Airbus president and CEO Fabrice Brégier urged caution, saying, “Only the facts count.”
Russian airlines carried 5.96 million passengers in January-April 2016, down 6.4% year-over-year (YOY). International traffic is down 24.2% to 2.06 million, while domestic traffic is up 6.8% to 3.9 million.
BOC Aviation is expecting to raise approximately HK$4.2 billion ($547 million) when it completes its listing on the Hong Kong stock exchange on June 1.
As he takes the IATA AGM stage for the last time as director general, Tony Tyler remains all business and doggedly determined to continue addressing those issues that hamper the global airline industry.
European carriers are bracing for further disruption, as France’s air traffic controllers plan another walkout which threatens to be the worst of 2016.
Speaking with the Executive Report ahead of the AGM, AAPA DG Andrew Herdman summed up some of the questions that will be on the minds of many of the Asian carrier CEOs during this AGM.
After nine years serving as president of Delta Air Lines and being CEO Richard Anderson’s most trusted advisor, Ed Bastian officially assumed the CEO’s role from Anderson on May 2.
Aer Lingus is the host airline of the 72nd IATA AGM here in Dublin. IAG acquired Aer Lingus in September, bringing it under the Group umbrella that includes British Airways and Spanish carriers Iberia and Vueling. Stephen Kavanagh joined Aer Lingus in 1988 and was appointed CEO in March 2015.
Delta Air Lines and its joint-venture equity partner Virgin Atlantic are shuffling some of their routes, allowing Delta to add non-stop flights between Portland and London Heathrow.
A French naval vessel involved in the search for EgyptAir flight MS804 has received signals “assumed to be from one of the data recorders,” Egyptian authorities said.
Japanese major All Nippon Airways (ANA) has finalized its agreement to take an 8.8% stake in Vietnamese flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, worth VND2.43 trillion ($109 million).
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.
Airport freight traffic in metric tonnes for 2016 year-to-date, organized by world regions. Year-over-year percentage changes provided by Airports Council International.
US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest, for the first three months of 2016; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous year.
Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
