US air carrier traffic statistics for 2014 (excludes all-cargo services; includes domestic and international). SOURCE: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Market and Segment.
Favorable moves in currency exchange rates mean that UK-based low-cost carrier (LCC) easyJet will turn in a better-than-predicted financial performance for the first half of 2015, the carrier said Thursday.
A French prosecutor said information from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) indicates the co-pilot “through a voluntary act” descended the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.
Air freight volumes worldwide were up 3% year-over-year (YOY) in January, as approximately 5.5 million metric tonnes of cargo were shipped by air in January—a YOY increase of approximately 160,000 metric tonnes from January 2014, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
As it expands to larger cities, including Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Indianapolis, Allegiant Air is trying to improve how it communicates its business model to customers to make it more “transparent.”
French air accident investigation agency BEA has been able to extract an audio file from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), but is still searching for the flight data recorder (FDR) and has not reached any conclusions about why the Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps on March 24.
Deputy Associate Administrator John Hickey told attendees at the Aeronautical Repair Station Association’s (ARSA) spring symposium that FAA wants to move to risk-based inspections, rather than random or calendar-based inspections, and asked MROs to share data to support this move.
Jetstream Aviation, an experienced EASA-approved training organization, will be offering aircraft maintenance services for customers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia in a hangar at Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
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.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved an April 22 election date for the more than 3,000 workers at Boeing’s 787 production facility in South Carolina to vote on unionization, according to a statement by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
Vietnamese low-cost carrier (LCC) VietJet Air’s first subsidiary, Thai VietJet Air, will begin operations with a Bangkok-Phuket, Thailand schedule on March 29 using an Airbus A320-200.
American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker told Congress that US airlines favor moving US air traffic control (ATC) to “a commercialized, non-profit type governance structure.”
French investigators reached the scene of the Germanwings Airbus A320 accident late in the afternoon local time and have recovered one of the aircraft’s two recorders, although whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder was not announced.
