Air Transport World

Data represents the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group. Changes in employee totals from the previous month, and the current month from a year ago, two years ago, five years ago and a decade ago are represented by percentage change.
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By Linda Blachly
Aircraft News
Aircraft & Propulsion

Turkish Airlines is beginning to look at investing in other airlines, CEO Temel Kotil told ATW in Istanbul.
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Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary Eurowings has reported promising bookings for first flights from Vienna to the Caribbean, Thailand and Dubai from Nov. 9.
Airports & Networks

US Airlines oversales for the first six months of 2015, ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with the corresponding January-June period of 2014. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
Airlines & Lessors

Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
Airlines & Lessors

Singapore’s Changi Airport has introduced a trial of a new Fast and Seamless Travel (FAST) automated check-in system at Terminal 2.
Airports & Networks

International Airlines Group (IAG) has selected Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines for eight Airbus A350-900 aircraft that will be operated by Iberia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

US airlines ranked by mishandled baggage reports per 1,000 passengers, lowest to highest for the first six months of 2015; contrasted with reports from the corresponding period of 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

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

Emirates Airline will launch daily Dubai-Panama City flights next year, marking its entry into Central America.
Airports & Networks

Airberlin reported a second-quarter net loss of €37.5 million ($41.6 million), widened from a net loss of €8.6 million in the year-ago quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Ukrainian aviation authorities have banned Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat-Kiev flights from Aug. 16.
Airports & Networks

LOT Polish Airlines and Turkish Airlines have signed a letter of understanding, which will initiate an enhanced cooperation on existing codeshare routes.
Airlines & Lessors

Malaysia-based long-haul, low-cost carrier (LCC) AirAsia X (AAX) has provisionally reported a second-quarter 20% drop in passenger numbers year-over-year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Thai Airways has reported a second-quarter loss of THB12.8 billion ($378 million), widened from a loss of THB7.7 billion in the year-ago quarter.
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

British Airways (BA) has entered into a 12-year agreement with Boeing to provide Component Services for its 787 Dreamliner fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The average daily traffic in Europe in July exceeded 31,000 flights a day for the first time in five years, according to the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, Eurocontrol.
Airports & Networks

Allegiant Air will start flying to San Antonio and Kansas City, Missouri, as part of a broader plan to add 17 new routes this fall.
Airports & Networks

US airlines continue to see exceptional profits, as oil prices remain low and the four-largest US carriers report July traffic outpaced capacity growth.
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

US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest, for the first six months of 2015; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous year.
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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

Monthly percentages of total flight cancellations, per reporting airline. Ordered from lowest percentage of total flight operations canceled to highest.
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