Spanish carrier Vueling, the low-cost platform for International Airlines Group (IAG), has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 with a new cabin configuration.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has submitted a formal “opinion,” proposing that individual countries should be able to delegate some of their oversight responsibilities.
United Airlines pilots on the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 fleets will stop starting the auxiliary power unit (APU) after arrival to save money, the carrier told pilots recently.
Icelandair is breaking with tradition, adding its first two Boeing 767s to its formerly all-757 fleet, and switching five aging Air Iceland Fokker 50s for three Bombardier Q400s.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair is to be the first airline to operate scheduled services from Spain’s Castellon Airport, which has been empty since its opening four years ago.
A toilet-servicing truck reversed into a stationary Norwegian Boeing 737-800, causing significant damage to the aircraft skin and seriously injuring a ground worker, according to a report released by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).
Turkish Technic, a 100% subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, plans to grow its third-party MRO business from 25% to 50% as it prepares for the opening of the third Istanbul airport in 2017 for more hangar space.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Austrian Airlines is launching a program in the fall to renew its medium-haul fleet, which it expects to conclude at the end of 2017.
Full-year 2014 consolidated seasonally-adjusted systemwide traffic data for US scheduled-service passenger airlines: passenger load factors, RPMs, ASMs and passenger enplanements; contrasted with 2013. Source: US BTS.
Lufthansa Group will base its first Airbus A350-900 at its second major hub in Munich from 2016, executive board chairman and CEO Carsten Spohr told ATW in Frankfurt.
Several Asian low-cost carriers (LCCs)—including Cebu Pacific, Tigerair Taiwan and Vietjet Air—are pulling back from the region’s previous network expansion, concentrating instead on maximizing traffic on existing profitable routes.
The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 132 airports worldwide - current through January 2015 - presented by monthly and year-to-date figures.
Chorus Aviation, the Halifax-based parent company of Canadian regional airline Jazz Aviation, has entered into an agreement to acquire North Bay, Ontario-based Voyageur Airways for C$80 million ($63 million).
The much-delayed opening of Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is a “huge disadvantage for airberlin,” the carrier’s CEO Stefan Pichler told ATW on the sidelines of his first press conference after taking the helm Feb. 1.
Turkish Airlines has not yet decided whether it will lease two Airbus A380-800s from Malaysia Airlines to test the aircraft size for future operations.
