Air Transport World

Singapore-based long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot has launched a new Singapore-Melbourne service using Boeing 787-8 aircraft on a 5X-weekly schedule.
Airports & Networks

By Jens Flottau, Victoria Moores
The Oct. 31 crash of Metrojet flight 9268, now confirmed by Airbus, was only the third hull loss of an Airbus A321-200 and the worst accident so far involving the type.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes, Victoria Moores
A Metrojet-branded Airbus A321, operated by Russian carrier Kogalymavia, has crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula shortly after take-off from Sharm el-Sheikh airport on Oct. 31.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airlines for America (A4A) has expedited Delta Air Lines’ departure from the organization, which is now effective immediately.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Kazakhstan-based regional carrier Qazaq Air, which launched flights in August, said it had a good start and operations are going well.
Airlines & Lessors

Dubai-based low-cost-carrier (LCC) flydubai has launched flights from Al Maktoum International-Dubai World Central Airport (DWC), the second international airport of Dubai.
Airports & Networks

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has opened a base at Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport where it will operate five 189-seat Boeing 737-800s on 17 new routes during the winter season.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Managers at London’s Heathrow airport are lining up potential contractors to build its long-awaited third runway, even as the UK government continues to mull whether the west London hub should be the site of additional runway capacity in the southeast of the country.
Airports & Networks

The Finnair Group has reported a third-quarter net profit of €39 million ($44 million), more than doubled from a net profit of €16.6 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

Turkish Airlines is expanding routes to Africa and is targeting becoming the biggest network carrier on the continent, CEO Temel Kotil told ATW.
Airports & Networks

By Karen Walker
Emirates Airline says it is “closely studying” whether to launch Dubai-Atlanta service after Delta Air Lines pulls out from the route next year, a decision it announced earlier this week and which the US carrier claims was prompted by over-capacity by the Gulf carriers.
Airports & Networks

Airbus will further increase the production rate of single aisle family aircraft to 60 a month—up from just over 42 a month—in mid-2019 to match ongoing high demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
International Airlines Group—parent company of British Airways (BA), Iberia, Spanish low-cost carrier (LCC) Vueling and Aer Lingus—reported a third-quarter net profit of €883 million ($992.8 million), up 39.3% compared to a net profit of €634 million for the same period last year.
Airlines & Lessors

Airline safety concerns over unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may have reached a tipping point in late September when a top FAA official, speaking at a major aviation conference, said that as many as 1 million small UAVs could be sold during the upcoming US holiday season.
Airports & Networks

Articles of the November 2015 issue of ATW
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
CEO Carolyn McCall discusses easyJet's technology advances, such as drone MRO inspections and ash cloud detection, to improve air travel.
Airlines & Lessors

By Henry Canaday
Rising tides lift all boats, so decent economic growth plus much lower fuel prices equal strong passenger demand, fleet expansion and healthy maintenance markets for 2016.
Maintenance & Training

Kirby Harrison
There used to be places where old airplanes went to die. Places where they sat, wingtip-to-wingtip in long rows, abandoned except for the occasional raid for spare parts.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

More than 50% of global air traffic today travels through privatized or commercialized airports. Roughly half of that traffic travels through airports that are stock exchange listed, while the remaining half are privatized but not listed. How is their attraction measured?
Airlines & Lessors

A Dynamic Airways Boeing 767-200 caught fire on a Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood (Florida) International Airport (FLL) taxiway as it was holding for takeoff to Caracas, Venezuela.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Asia-Pacific airlines reported average international load factors of 83% in August, the highest level recorded in 2015 and proof that this is a region where more and more people are flying for the first time or flying to places they never visited before.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
Virgin America reported $71.9 million in third-quarter net income, up 72.7% from a net profit of $41.6 million the year-ago quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Just as the Middle East’s ‘Big Three’ airlines—Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways—have grown the region’s airline landscape in recent years, so have their airports.
Airports & Networks