Air Transport World

Rotana Jet has confirmed it is the first airline in the Middle East and Africa to deliver a live transaction using IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard, which has been validated by the IATA IT technical team.

Transaero Airlines’ board of director has appointed Valery Zaitsev as the new company’s CEO.

United Parcel Service (UPS) posted third-quarter net income of $1.26 billion, up 3.5% from $1.21 billion in net profit during the 2014 September quarter.

Two Arik Air Boeing 737-800s have been returned to service following a wing tip collision at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed Airport.

Delta Air Lines will leave Airlines for America (A4A), the group that lobbies on behalf of the US airline industry, in 2016.

Embraer posted a net loss of $109.6 million, compared to a loss of $10.7 million year-over-year.

United Airlines has reached an agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) to ratify a proposed joint collective bargaining agreement.

Several carriers are taking over Transaero’s domestic destinations to Russia’s Far East after authorities canceled its air operator’s certificate Oct. 26 due to financial and safety concerns.

JetBlue Airways reported a net profit of $198 million for the third-quarter of 2015, more than doubling its $79 million net income from 3Q 2014.

SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, will launch its first Airbus A330-200 long-haul flight for Eurowings from Cologne to Varadero, Cuba, on Nov. 2.

Spirit Airlines earned third-quarter net income of $97.1 million, up 44% over a net profit of $67 million in the 2014 September quarter, and vowed to maintain a high growth rate in the face of stiff pricing pressure.

Republic Airways Holdings (RAH) pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, have voted to ratify a new three-year contract.

Russia’s Aeroflot will lease 14 former Transaero aircraft from Sberbank Leasing.

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GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has appointed Alec Burger as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

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An investigation has begun after a Comair Boeing 737-400, operating a British Airways franchise flight, suffered a landing gear failure after touching down at Johannesburg’s Tambo International Airport.

Indonesia’s regional carrier Kalstar Aviation has canceled more than 1,000 flights in the last two months due to poor visibility resulting from uncontrolled rainforest and peatland fires.

A German court that granted Etihad Airways temporary permission to continue operating all codeshare flights with airberlin through Nov. 8 has extended the approval until Jan. 15, 2016.

Saab is nearing completion of the demonstration phase of an experimental remote tower system at a reliever airport for Washington Dulles International Airport.

FedEx takeover target TNT Express has posted a €27 million ($29.7 million) third quarter operating loss, nearly halving the €51 million loss in the year-ago period.

Delta TechOps will add the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB and Trent 7000 engines to its MRO portfolio.

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