A consortium led by ANA Holdings has established MRO Japan to carry out aircraft maintenance at facilities to be constructed at Naha Airport in Okinawa.
European turboprop manufacturer ATR has ruled out a shrink-version of its ATR 42, but is looking to tap the market for 30-seater replacements and calling for changes to European passenger-cargo combi rules.
Hangzhou-based YTO Express has received an operating license from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to launch its own cargo subsidiary, YTO Cargo Airlines.
The first Airbus A350 XWB destined for Vietnam Airlines flew June 1, beginning a rapid ramp-up of A350 production that will see three new operators take delivery of the aircraft this year.
Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia may be forced to add a stopover to its recently introduced Jakarta-Amsterdam nonstop service as a result of runway certification problems at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta.
Qatar Airways plans to launch its first three US Airbus A350 XWB services from Doha Hamad International Airport to Philadelphia on Jan. 1, 2016, followed by daily flights to New York JFK and Boston on March 1 and March 16, 2016, respectively.
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Jeh Johnson has “reassigned” acting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) head Melvin Carraway “effective immediately” following a DHS inspector general’s report that revealed weaknesses at US airports’ passenger screening checkpoints.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has formally become a 33.3% shareholder of Swiss regional Darwin Airline, operating under the brand of Etihad Regional, following approval from Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA).
Frontier Airlines has placed a firm order for 10 Airbus A321ceo and two A320ceo aircraft. This is the second time in less than a year the Denver, Colorado-based airline has ordered the A321, the largest member of the A320 family.
New Malaysian flag carrier—provisionally called MAS Bhd—has now said it will retain at least some of its full-service international routes, and will also keep domestic and cargo services from the operating assets of the old Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) airline group.
East Africa-based Air Djibouti, the Republic of Djibouti’s new national carrier, has confirmed it is on schedule to commence cargo operations later this year and add passenger services in 2016.
Equity funding and shareholder loans received by Etihad Airways from its Abu Dhabi government owner fully comply with the US-UAE Open Skies agreement, the airline says in submissions to a US government review of alleged subsidies provided to the three major Gulf carriers.
Lufthansa, which is transforming its Eurowings subsidiary into a pan-European platform to operate low-cost flights from several bases outside Germany, will place the carrier’s two air operator’s certificates (AOC) in Austria.
All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA) has established a joint venture (JV) with several other major companies to set up a new MRO operation in Okinawa, Japan.
Airbus looks set to block any rescue deal by All Nippon Airways (ANA) and investment banks to bail out bankrupt Japanese low-cost carrier (LCC) Skymark Airlines.
