China’s HNA Group subsidiary China’s Tianjin Airlines has signed a final agreement with Embraer for 22 aircraft, comprising 20 E-195s and two E-190 E2s.
Etihad Airways equity partner Alitalia will not renew its long-standing agreements with Air France-KLM when they come up for renewal in January 2017, saying the relationship is imbalanced.
Guernsey-based lessor DP Aircraft I has confirmed plans to acquire a pair of Boeing 787-8s that are currently owned by AerCap and leased to Thai Airways.
African low-cost carrier Fastjet will to add “a number” of aircraft to its fleet this year, starting with an initial Airbus A319 on lease from ICBC International Leasing Co.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating a computer security expert who claimed he has hacked into inflight entertainment (IFE) systems during domestic flights aboard US airlines.
Finnair’s flights will now operate normally this week after the Finnish Aviation Union ground handlers canceled plans to strike from May 19-20 over collective labor agreement (CLA) changes.
The Portuguese government, which decided to sell up to 66% of flag carrier TAP Portugal, is moving forward with the long-planned privatization process.
Philippines-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Cebu Pacific Air reported first-quarter net income of PHP2.2 billion ($50 million), up significantly from a PHP164.2 million profit in the year-ago period.
Global mobile satellite communications services provider Inmarsat said its Global Xpress (GX) satellite Inmarsat-5 F3 (I-5 F3)—which was scheduled to deploy at the end of the second quarter—will be delayed, following the failure of the preceding Proton Breeze M launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 16.
Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
The heads of the three big US network carriers say they will go to Congress if the Obama administration does not act on their complaints about the three Persian Gulf carriers being subsidized by their governments.
LOT Polish Airlines plans to grow ASKs at least 30% starting in 2016, when a European Union (EU) ban is lifted prohibiting the carrier from growing capacity or adding routes until it completes restructuring.
Air Serbia will retire its existing fleet of ATR turboprops, and will decide on a replacement within the next two to three years, CEO Dane Kondić said.
