Air Transport World

By Linda Blachly
Air Canada has announced new nonstop services between 12 US cities and its four key Canadian hubs beginning in the summer of 2016.
Airports & Networks

Eastern European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has renewed two eight-year MRO contracts with Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) and Lufthansa Technik Budapest (LTB) for line maintenance services on its fleets based in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.
Maintenance & Training

Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has posted passenger numbers for the first nine months of 2015 of 16.8 million, up 12.1% year-over-year.
Airlines & Lessors

Four years after its first flight to Hawaii, Allegiant Air will end its costly experiment, saying it will pull out of Honolulu in August 2016 and retire all of its Boeing 757s by 2017.
Airports & Networks

US airlines ranked by mishandled baggage reports per 1,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with reports from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Airlines & Lessors

US Airlines tarmac delays of two hours or longer, ranked by percentage-delayed of the total number of regularly scheduled flights, lowest-to highest.
Airlines & Lessors

Airberlin, which is undergoing an extensive restructuring process, will cut all domestic routes from its Palma de Mallorca hub as well as from Ibiza to the Spanish mainland and to Portugal, a spokesperson confirmed to ATW.
Airports & Networks

Indonesia’s Minister of Transportation Ignasius Jonan has committed to adding 15 new airports to the country’s capacity by 2018.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has blamed Air Samara pilots for the hard landing accident of a Beechcraft B300 on Nov. 25, 2014.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 232 airports worldwide - current through Nov. 19, 2015 - presented in monthly and year-to-date figures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
SkyTeam alliance has appointed Perry Cantarutti as CEO, succeeding the retiring Leo van Wijk.
Airlines & Lessors

Delta Air Lines has expressed its intention to increase its holding in Grupo Aeromexico to as much as 49%.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Finland’s Competition and Consumer Authority has given final approval to a deal allowing Finnair to transfer 60% of its shares in Nordic Regional Airlines (Norra) to StaffPoint Holding and Kilco.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Southeast Asian regional carriers are increasingly choosing to implement inflight tracking systems following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 in March 2014.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Nensel
Panama City-registered Avianca Holdings posted a 2015 third-quarter net profit of $102.1 million, more than tripling its $33.2 million net profit in 3Q 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Airlines & Lessors

This table shows the current U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the latest figures for the current week, with comparisons to two weeks prior, one month prior, three months prior, six months prior and the current week during each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the US Energy Information Administration.
Airlines & Lessors

Virgin America will add San Francisco-Denver service in March, a move that will give the low-cost carrier (LCC) service to each of the 10 most-popular destinations from San Francisco, as measured by daily passengers each way.
Airports & Networks

American Airlines will switch the way members of its AAdvantage loyalty program earn rewards from the number of miles flown to the amount spent for a ticket.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Boeing delivered two 747-8Fs to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, is developing a new set of security measures to prevent “any illegal interference into airlines and airports activities within the country and abroad.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
Air Canada flight attendants, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have ratified a 10-year collective agreement.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Turboprop leasing company Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has named Søren Overgaard as its new CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Kim Graven-Nielsen.
Airlines & Lessors

China’s new regional startup Colorful Guizhou Airlines is scheduled to launch its inaugural flight Dec. 28, according to chairman Zhai Yan.
Airlines & Lessors

Luxembourg-based Cargolux Airlines and its OGBL and LCGB trade unions—which represent 750 ground staff—have reached a principle agreement in the latest round of negotiations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation