International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) has promised to maintain Aer Lingus’ Heathrow-Cork and -Shannon services for a minimum of five years, if it succeeds in acquiring the Irish carrier.
Alaska Airlines is seeking to transfer its authority to fly between Los Angeles and Mexico City to American Airlines, a move that would permit American to start double-daily flights June 4.
Ryanair plans to petition the UK’s Supreme Court following a lower court’s dismissal of its appeal against a directive to sell down its 29.8% stake in Aer Lingus to 5% on competition grounds.
SkyWest Inc., the St. George, Utah-based parent of regional carriers SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, posted a full-year net loss of $24.2 million for 2014, reversing the $59 million net profit the company recorded in 2013.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn—along with several other unnamed companies—is set to file a billion-euro lawsuit seeking damages from 11 air cargo carriers, including Lufthansa and British Airways, for allegedly operating a price-fixing cartel from 1999-2006.
Turkish Airlines plans to extend services in Africa by adding 5X-weekly flights from Istanbul Ataturk to Abuja/Nigeria, its 38th destination in the continent, from March 3.
Just weeks after it placed four airliners with two Libyan carriers, Dubai-based lessor Aerovista has pulled them out of the North African nation, citing security concerns.
Russia’s UTair Aviation is considering remarketing its 12 Airbus A321s by trying to find new customers for the aircraft that was delivered in 2013-2014.
Bombardier has unveiled plans to raise new financing as Pierre Beaudoin steps down to be replaced as president and chief executive officer by outsider Alain Bellemare, until recently head of United Technologies’ Propulsion & Aerospace business.
British Airways has become the first airline to get the go-ahead to use Boeing’s Electronic Logbook (ELB) to eliminate paper technical logs on its 787 Dreamliner fleet.
Ten TransAsia pilots have been grounded after failing basic oral tests on the correct handling procedure for an engine flameout after Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) and the carrier suspended flights to send all active ATR pilots for retraining following the fatal crash of an ATR 72-600 earlier this month.
US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
In 2014, US airlines reported a total of 30 domestic flights with tarmac delays exceeding three hours and nine international flights with tarmac delays exceeding four hours at US airports—the lowest number on record, according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) latest Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Hungarian air navigation service provider (ANSP) HungaroControl has abolished the entire fixed flight route network in Hungarian airspace, converting entirely to free route airspace.
Qatar Airways plans to operate the Airbus A350 XWB on its Doha-Singapore service, replacing Boeing 787 aircraft that were introduced on the route less than a year ago.
