Russian airlines carried 16.9 million passengers in the first quarter, down 2.3% year-over-year, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
Changes in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as percent changes from the previous year; differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.
Boeing earned a first-quarter net profit of $1.34 billion, up 38% over net income of $965 million in the 2014 March quarter, as its Commercial Airplanes unit’s revenue continued to soar.
Mexican ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) Volaris has posted a first-quarter net profit of MXP306 million ($20.1 million), reversing a MXP370 million net loss for the 2014 March quarter.
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) hopes to double its revenue over the next 10 years to RUB800 billion ($15 billion) and produce at least 300 aircraft per year, half of which should be civil aircraft, UAC president Yury Slusar said.
The FAA has proposed a civil penalty of $142,750 against Missouri-based GoJet Airlines—a wholly owned subsidiary of Trans States Holdings—for allegedly violating drug and alcohol testing regulations.
Sweden’s Örnsköldsvik Airport has begun operations using the Remote Tower Services (RTS) system developed by Swedish air navigation services provider LFV and Saab.
FAA has awarded Raytheon a $103 million contract to develop a payload to be incorporated into a new geostationary satellite and two associated ground uplink stations to support its Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) in US airspace.
Nuevo Pudahuel—a consortium comprising Aéroports de Paris (45%), VINCI Airports (40%) and Italian construction group Astaldi (15%)—has been awarded the concession to operate Santiago’s Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Chile.
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.
AMETEK MRO has signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement with AJW Group to provide supplementary component repair and overhaul services for AJW’s global fleet of more than 900 aircraft under contract.
Honeywell Aerospace has launched its Performance Accelerator, an interactive, real-time catalogue of Honeywell’s service bulletins and upgrade options for airlines built on a 3-D rendering of the 20 most widely used commercial aircraft.
Nordam Group and GE Capital Aviation Services Asset Management Services have announced a partnership to provide airline customers with flight control systems, from July 1.
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) and US low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines have signed a comprehensive, long-term component supply agreement for the airline’s current and future Airbus A320 fleet.
Etihad Airways equity partner airberlin has resigned its membership of the Association of European Airlines (AEA), accusing the lobbying organization of taking a protectionist stance against the three major Gulf carriers.
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) and the International Air Carrier Association (IACA) have confirmed they are in talks about a possible cooperation, which have been ongoing for “some months” and are unrelated to British Airways, Iberia and airberlin recently resigning their AEA memberships, an AEA spokesman told ATW.
